New-York tribune., 1902-12-11

age. the average being 3o4 per cent statement
showing that men who have boys working in
the breakers and mines earn an average OF
$3.50 50. that the average house rent Of the
company is 81 A: showing that % per cent of
the company's miners real estate, and also
statements showing all other conditions desired
by the commissioners.
The Philadelphia and Reading Company sub
rnitted its statements to-day. but they have
not yet been certified by the miners. The Le-
high Valleys will be handed in tomorrow or
Friday.
ATTEMPT AT BRIBERY ALLEGED
A story of an alleged attempt at bribery in an
effort to break the strike the most dramatic
testimony of the day, John Farley, president of
the Dunmore Local. telling il. He said that on
September q he was taken by mutual friend
10 see Michael Grimes in the Valley Hotel. in
this city. They had 4 short general talk. and
then Grimes told him the strikers were weak
ening the break was sure to come soon, and
asked why il would not he a good thing to get
something out Of it He proposed that Farley
get ten men in his local 10 sign a resolution
asking the men TO return to work. He offered
10 give 5000 each TO eight of these men .snd
500 each 10 two of them, and TO Farley 10 give
So 500 as well as paying all the expenses he
needed fer getting the men in line. He also
proposed that b T. O'Horo, president of an
other local, do the thing for the same con-
sideration. At the request of the district Off
GERS, to whom Farley says he at once told this
plan, OIioro and Farley went TO see Grimes
who they say repeated the offer. He also
offered, they say, TO give them any position
about the mines they liked, and if they wanted
10 be mine foremen and could not pass the eX-
animation. 20 give them certificates.
He heard, they said, that the same night a
Joint meeting was TO be held and offered to
give $500 10 each of thirty men who would
sign the resolution and pass it then
After this offer Farley and O'Horo say they
exposed him and would never see him again.
although he and his friends requested them to
do so time and time again.
There was no cross-examination. Mr.. Grimes
lis not represented here. said Mr.. TorTey. for the
operators.
The evidence of miners to-day was small.
Alexander Vickar of the Delaware and Hudson
company. said he had been discharged because
he refused to work in certain place.
Have YOU not heard that miners have boy
cotted certain chambers by drawing half moon
over them?" asked Attorney Reynolds Of the
The witness said he had never heard of it,
other miners told about wage earnings and
general conditions, and some about not getting
their places back P J. McCornnac. weigh
that the dockage was only about 3 per cent and
there was no complaint about it The system
Of weighing and checking was explained at
length
George w. Phillips. superintendent Of the
Scranton schools County Superintendent J. c.
Taylor. OF Lackawanna, and Superintendent NJ.
w Cummings of the Olyphant schools testi-
fed that more miners children left the schools
al early age than the children of other work
ers. Phillips admitted that the parents found
Il difficult after the children were twelve and
over TO keep them in the schools. Cummings
admitted that the parents gave the ages of their
eleven year-old boys twelve so they could
get work in the breaker. and thirteen-year-ol
boys fourteen, so they could go into the
mines. In mining communities Taylor said, pa
per cent of the children Were out OF school, and
liz agricultural districts per cent.
TIE Philadelphia and Reading Coal Company
In replying TO Mr.. Watkins's request TO know
about the readjustment of grievances between
the company and its employees since 1900, said
hat all submitted were amicably adjusted.