The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-20
.NON.UNION MEN
TREATED BADLY
One Man Nept as He Related
His Experience
WAS TURNED OUT OF SOCIETY
Witness Further Told How Boys He
Had Taught Stoned Him On the
Road-Laid Down When He
Flourished Revolver. =
WAS TURNED OUT OF SOCIETY

Scranton, Pa, December 19.-Non-union
men. some of their relatives and others
to the number of thirty appeared before
the anthracite coal strike commission to-
day and told stories of alleged boycotts,
intimidations dynamiting and violence In
various forms during the late strike.
Each witness called was a sufferer in one
form OF another at the hands of the al
| legged union men.
Fcu1 witnesses said attempts were made
to blow up their houses; one house was
badly damaged; many of the witnesses
were threatened with bodily harm; sew
eral were beaten. One was shot in the
leg; every one stoned poycotted or
hanged in effigy.
Frank McCarty, a school teacher, tes-
titled to having lost his position because
his father did not strike.
Thomas II. Dugan was requested to
give up his membership in Catholic
temperance society because he remained
on duty doing repair work and acting
as a watchman He wept while on the
witness stand, as he told of how they or
dered him to leave. He was very active
in the society and drilled many of those
who have grown to manhood in the mill
tary branch of the society. He said
he had been stoned and otherwise ILL
treated, and added that a good clubbing
would not have hurt half as mucn as the
action of the society in throwing him out
of the order.
Stoned Him on the Highway.
The boys he had drilled in the society
stoned him on the highway, and when
he displayed his revolver they all dropped
fiat on the road.
C. s. Darrow, for the miners, asked the
witness IL he thought the union taught
them that to which the witness replied
that he, as captain of the military COM
pany of the society, had taught the boys
the military tactics which they resorted
to when he fiourished his pistol.
Chairman Gray asked the witness IL he
remained at work so that the pumps
could be placed in repair to save the
mines from being destroyed. He said he
did. Mr.. Darrow asked him how long he
worked and examined him in such a way
on this subject as to draw out the remark
from Chairman Gray that men will work
fifteen hours or more to help save a
neighbours burning house.
teSuHeu ne was expelled
from the Hibernians society. He said he
worked after the strike as a repairer.
He had been a member of the society rs
or 2S years, and at meeting one night
during the strike, the question of his
unfairness came up and the members
present unanimously voted to expel him.
He had been paying dues all these years
as a member in good standing. and added
that he was now glad he was out of it.
Was a Good Union Man.
A non-union man who subsequently quit
work, produced a letter written by Pres
ident T. D. Nichols of District No. in
which he stated that the witness had
quit work and was good union man and
that all union men should treat him in a
friendly manner so long as he behaved
himself accordingly"
John Conlin, a mine boss and president
of the school board of plains, testified
that a committee of a local union called
on him and asked that school teachers,
whose relatives were working in the
mines be not re-appointed as teachers.
The commission will meet at o'clock
tomorrow morning, and adjourn at Has
o'clock for the holidays. Most of the
commissioners will Immediately leave for
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