New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-12-10
STORY 0 l miner ! R BOY
Works for Four Cents an Hour n
Mine B to Pay OF Dead
Fathers Debts.
HAS NEVER BEEN PAID ANY Al MONEY s {
Testimony before the Anthracite lie
Strike Com mi ION Re hearses
Hardships OF the Mine rs--If g her ne.
Curran Says Nonunion Men en- Do
Wrong to Take strikers' Places

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| Scranton. Pa, Dec. 8.-----Rev J.
Curran, Of Wilkesbarre, who was on OF; |
the stand Friday when the coal strike
commission adjourned, resumed the |
| witness stand when the commits
| began its session at ten o'clock SAT-
| urday. .ss Is
4 Commissioner Parker was absent
/ from the hearing Friday, having gone
to Washington on private business.
j Father Curran was AIKEN in hand by
Harry Reynolds, one of the IaWye
j for the Independent opera tors, VINO l1t,
cross-examined him at some length
regarding conditions in the vicinity
i of Wilkesbarre. After examining
4 Father Curran on the lence IN the
i region and comparative wages, Mr..
i REYNOLDS proceeded to ask the cler-s
gyman regarding the comp rative IN 1
4 telligence of the children OF the
miners. Father Curran said they
compared favorably with other chill
dren.s Referring to the n onunion
men Father Curran said most of the
people Of the coal regions believed
!. the miners should have better wages.
eff so-called 'scab' takes the place
of. man who is trying to get his
rights that so-called seab' is doing
wrong and an injustice to the people
in his community" said Father Cur.
d | ran. He admitted that most Of the
+ violence committed resulted from at
" tempts of mine owners to resume
= work. 81 II. II ISL.
a Picture LOverdrawn. 5
Il John O'Brien, an attorney for thu
u nonunion men, questioned Fathel
81 Curran. He read Gov. Stones proclaa
nation describing the violence ant
reign Of terror that existed in TIN
region during the strike and tn
T. clergyman said that some OF tn
things stated in the proclamatio di'
! not exist. This concluded his ex
Z animation. s5 s5$ # n 8
Commissioner Watkins here aske
the attorneys for the miners and tn
Philadelphia & Reading company
any effort was made by the con
panies and the miners to get int
T.! more harmonious relations, as II
suit of the 1900 strike. The atto1
neys said they would give the info:
nation later. $as5
5sE4 A Boys story.
12-year-old breaker boy en-
ployed in the Markle mines at jedi
was the. next called to the stan
The boy said he had one year
schooling and that his father w;
killed in the mines. He worked $
weeks before the strike and has BET
4 working since the suspension ende
He produced due bills showing tn
: he earned four cents an hour. !
received no money, however, becau
III there was an old debt against
- father. He was working to pay TT
off and also the rent on his mothe-
al house. His mother, he said, had
keep boarders, nine persons living i7 g
n four-room house.
James Gallagher, who was e
4 ployed in the Markle mines, said tt
ev. he had received money once in
rY years and 9 months. He explain
= this by saying that he never {
enough money for himself, that
Accompany store got it all.
s.% MacVeagh Calls ON Morgan
New York, Dec. s.-Wayne NJ
ore- Veagh, who appeared as counsel
mol the Pennsylvania and Hillside Q
to companies before the arbitrat
en- commission, called on j. p. More
Of at the latters ONCE pelore ;.leAv ~
ri for Washington Saturday. He
@ not meet any of the presidents Of
--- coal roads at Mr.. Morgan's office {
~ the purpose of his call was not mi