Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-20
TALES OF VIOLENCE
Thirty Witnesses Relate Coal
 Strike Experiences.
BOYCOTTS, BElTINGS AND STONINGS
Men Who Remained at Their Posts In the Mines Were Submitted to All Sorts of Indignities by
 Alleged Strikers.

SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. 20.-Nonun- ion men, some of their relatives and others to the number of thirty ap- peared before the anthracite coal strike com mission yesterday and told their stories of alleged boycotts, intimida- tionS dynamiting and violence in va rious forms during the late strike. Each witness called was sufferer in one form or another at the hands, they alleged, of union men. Four witnesses said attempts were made to blow up their houses, and one house was badly dama ged. Many of the witnesses were threatened with bodily harm, several were beaten, one was shot in the leg and every one stoned, boycotted or hung in effigy. One sehoolteacher testi- fed to having lost his position because his father did not strike. One man was asked to resign from a Catholic tenn perance society, and another witness was expelled from local lodge of the Ancient Order of Hibernians after membership of twenty-six or twenty eight years because they were classed as unfair Workmen. '> ~s>.s ~
 Joseph H., Dugan, the man who was requested to give up his membership in the temperance society remained at work, doing repair work and acting as a watchman. He wept while on the witness stand as he told of how they ordered him to leave after many years of pleasant social relations with it's members. He was very active in the society and drilled many of those who < have grown to manhood ip the milf- tary branch of the society. He said he had been stoned and otherwise badly treated and added that a good clubbing would not hurt half as much as the action of the society in throwing him out of the organization. The boys he had drilled in the society stoned him on the highway, and when he dis played a revolver they all dropped fiat on the road. .->.~
 Chairman Gray asked the witness if he remained at work so that the pumps could be kept in good repair and thus keep the mines from being destroyed, and he said he did.
 A Polander named Max Lasar, who did not quit when the strike was fnau- gurated, told of how a man threw a quart bottle of giant powder to which lighted fuse was attached into the parlor of his home. He extinguished the fuse. The powder was shown to the commission.
 Eugene Deity, who was not mine worker and in no way connected with the strike, said he was going along a road at night and was mistaken for nonunion man. He was so badly beaten that he was laid up for two months.
 Thomas Kennedy, aged fifteen years, said he worked in a drug store in Car bondale. His father was an engineer in the employ of the Delaware and Hud- son company and did not quit work when the strike started. The manager of the drug store, he said, was request ed by a committee from the union to discharge him, and rather than have the store boycotted the druggist told the boy to quit. The father corroborated the story and added he had to keep his children from the public schools as they were being abused.
 John Lewandofski, who worked dur ing the strike for the Delaware, Lack dWdHAd 1hol w SSICiA So1Apohy, COSIt fled to an attempt to blow up his house with dynamite. The explosives and fuses were produced before the commis- sion.
 All the other witnesses testified to having been hung in efigy one or more times, that grocers, butchers, milkmen and icemen refused to serve them because they were afraid their business would be boycotted, and they were severely beaten and socially os- tracked. .-. 's.. ~,@'s