New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-19

fuse TO admit knowledge os che cases specified
He said:
II the acts you say were true happened. then
they may have deferred some men from going
TO work. but I do not say that one man was so
deferred"
MI MacVeagh took the view that those who
cease TO work must not interfere with +he lin
erty OF Others who wish to work
. We 90 not want anarchy" said Ny Mitchell
Sn l Inat is anarchy pure and simple-the right
OF every man TO do absolutely as he pIeases re-
CARELESS Of its effects on society
Ih5s Is the language of a very carefully dis
sulseo anarchy, Mr.. MacVeagh remarked be
cause It is the language of Archbishop ireland >,
answering a further question, Mr. Aftcneu
IeCIaIed mat II Archbishop Irelands statement
liIeaut thdt men have no right to picket he dis
agreed with him. Mr.. Mitchell added thar he
o-o not know that the Archbishop was regarded
as supreme court on trades union matters
Commissioner Wright asked Mr.. Mitchell what
witness replied 80
agreements regulating hours of labor wages
ETC. with the union. and that the union as such
would be held responsible for a rigid Compliance
with those agreements"
MT GoWen's cross-examination was restricted
.aaFseiy 10 oockage, wages and technical condi-
lions about the mines of his cOrnpanv on which
MI Mitchell stated that his Information was
oL4y general and that details would be given nv
witnesses TO follow Mr. Rose took IN much ~
ne afternoon with the same kind of eXamina-
uon. He elected the fact that Mr. Mitchell had
Deeh down one anthracite mine, the Bliss two
LINING was only general Mr. Ross said the
delaware, Lackawanna and Western COMPANY
Iiad FOUND that since the beginning Of the wear
the miners spent on working days an average Of
only nVe and a half hours in the mines that
last year the coulpanys 2,0S4 miners earned an
average OF S62S 80. and that instead NJ being
poor. their workers have property of one kind or
another, worth $500, 900. This was in amounts
OF from $500 20 $4,000, one man being worth
Ine latter figure, and many Of them worth
ABOUT $4,000; Of the 1900 workers ,695 owned
their homes.
NON-UNION MEN ASK TO BE HEARD.
As matter of fact" said Mr. Ross, has
not your organization stopped the miners from
working on the days when the breakers were
idle?"
MI Mitchell admitted that the rule was that
me men shall not prepare coal on idle days
declared that the rule of the local unions not TO
prepare coal when the breakers were idle did
not nave for its object restriction Of output
II these miners had been permitted to work.
asked MI Ross, "on these idle days. the out
put would nave been greater. wouldn't it,
/ don't know whether your company wanted
more coal than the miners produced or not"
We nave wanted for several years all the
coal We could get We have never been able
really 20 supply our orders
John 7. Lenahan fled with the commission a.
proof OF the fact that the non-union men desired
representation before the commission a list OF
some two thousand who had authorized him to
appear for them Ee asked that, for reasons
which were obvious, their names be kept secret.
but Judge Gray replied that nothing filed with
the commission could be kept secret. and Mr.
Lenahan then filed the names
The commission is expected to decide to-rnor-
row whether the non-Union men shall appear as
parties before IL.