The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-20
BECAUSE THEY
DID NOT STRIKE
Non-uniOn Men Tell What Hap
pened to Them.
MANY WITNESSES TESTIFY
STRIKE COMMISSION WILL AD-
JoURN FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
MANY WITNESSES TESTIF,

Scranton, Pa Dec. I9.-Non- union
men. some of their relatives and others,
TO the number OF thirty, appeared be-
fore the anthracite coal strike commits
sion today and told their stories of al
legged boycotts. intimidation and vio-
lence in various forms during the
strike Each witness called was a suf-
ferer in one form or another at the
hands, they alleged. Of union men.
Four Witnesses said attempts were
made TO blow up their houses. one
house was badly damaged 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 efTigy.
One school teacher testified 10 having
lest his position because his father did
not strike. One man nras asked TO
resign from a Catholic temperance So
ciety and another witness was ex-
PEELED from q local lodge of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians after a member
ship of twenty-six to tWenty-eight
years because they were classed as IN
fair.
Stoned by His Associates.
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 Waterman He went while on
the witness stand as ne told of how he
was ordered to leave after many years
of pleasant social relations with its
members He was very active in the
society and drilled many OF those who
have grown to manhood in the military
branch of the society. He said ne had
been stoned and otherwise badly treat
ed. and added that a good clubbing
would not have 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 his revolver they all dropped
fat on the road.
c. S barrow. for the miners. asked
the witness if he thought the union
taught them that. TO which the wit
ness replied that he, as captain of the
military company of the society. had
taught the boys the military tactics
which they resOrted TO when he -four
ished his revolver
Expelled From Lodge.
James Mitchell was the man who was
expelled from the Hibernian society
He said he worked during the strike
as repair man, and did not consider
it unfair because he did not mine any
NCdk ne udQ DEGt4 a LlCAAbGA VI A1tS
society twenty-six or twenty-eight
years and at a meeting one night
during the strike the question of IN
fairness came up and the members
present unanimously voted to expel
him. He had been paying dues all
these years and was in good stan0ings
and further added that he was now
glad he was out of it.
All other witnesses testified to hav-
ing been hanged in efigy one or more
times; that grocers, batehers, milk
men and icemen refused to serve them
because they were afraid their business
would be bOycotted, and that they
were severely beaten and socially
ostracised-
The commission VIII meet at 9
o'clock tomorrow morning and viii
adjourn at 11:45 O'Clock for the holt
days. Most OF the commissioners viii
Immediately leave for their homes