The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-21
VIOLENCE OF COAL STRIKERS.
THE (OMNISSIONERS LISTEN TO
STORIES or INJURY.
women as " ell a. Men the Victims Of GREY.
aus Wrong Principal OF \ school Had
to Have Mitc.leii's Permission To Get
His Own Goal IIauleti-HOlid Recess.

SCRANTON. Pa. Dec ?o.-Thc a1thra.
ci;c strike commission adjourned in this
city at noon to-day TO meet ia Philadelphia
on Jan 9 1t is likely that the members
will return to this city 20 taAc testimony
before they conclude their ,a.k
There was another stream Of testimony
to-day ~ 70 the violence that was com
nitted during the striae After the state
men, Of wages Of the Jehigh Valley cum
pany had been submittcd John Ii. Otto
testified that he was ,enms;er and that
during the strike he experienced diff
Guilty ia buying a, The ST ores a; Archibald,
~hero he lived, because he was working
Is d non-trion man. The necessities OF
life wsr. &c used him and he once saw his
name on an unfair IL,
Thomas Clarke OF C1rboniae said that
his father worked during the strike and
that on tAa, account he was forced 10 leave
his place of employment in Carbondaie
business house
Charles Arnold, All engineer and mcn-
ber Of tho Nandling Hose Company, said
that because hc worked during the strike
he was requested at the instance OF the
miners, to 60, out OF the company
William Allen, mine superintendent for
the Elk Hill Coal and Iron Company at Peck
vile, testified tina, at ws,hery where
he was employed the strikers tried TO pre-
vent tho company from turning water into
their dam. Once when he was repairing
a pump he wos stoned. Shots were fired
later at the pump-hou and fourteen bullet
holes were found in the boards This
witness told OF an attack by n mob upon
the Raymond collicry. Provisions were
destroyed there. a stove was smashed.
and the FIRE was scattered all over the car
yenter shop where tho non-union men
were lodged
J. Thompson. the cook employed a. the
Raymond colcry, said that the carpen-
ter shop Was fired upon by strikers and
that the bullets came 80 fast that the people
inside ran away. The crowd then entered
and virtually tore the building to pieces
There was much valuable machinery there
which was destroyed.
John Siehel, a blacksmith at the same
place, testified thai he was hit 10y n shot
on the night Of the shooting and that he
va laid up for two weeks.
The Rev. l.. l.. Sprague. president Of
Wyoming Seminary, testified that when
he bought some coal from the Kingston
Coal Company and sent men 70 haul il. ne
union tesmsters wouldn't let them do IL,
and as they were on strike themselves,
they wouldn't haul it. Mr.. Sprague wanted
the coal very much
When his Transfers We're STOPPED he
went to EdwardsSillr and law the officers
Of the local union there and asked them
il he could not have the coal The prcsi-
dent Of the local ,elephoned 10 Mr. Mitchell.
who was then in Wikc- Barre, and asked
him If he would let him have the coal. Mr..
Mitchell told him that If the coal was mined
before the strike he had no objections To
them having II. but II must IT, hauled from
the colliery TO tho station by the union
men. Upon being assured that il vas
mined before the strike hc gave permission
to Mr.. Sprague to take the coal that he
had previously bought from the COIN
pany.
Mrs. Rhoda Snyder said that her hus-
band went TO work during the strike after
everything to eat in the house had been
consumed. The men sent committee
to them telling them that II he did not
stop they would fix him"
On account Of the threats that she said
had been made size started to move her
things TO the home Of her father-in-iaw.
When the men had taken them from the
house n crowd Of men from the union
came to the place and drove the team
sters away and told them that they would
take care Of the things
That night while she was at the home Of
her father-in-law the house was burned
down, and everything in it, She asked Ma
tional Board Member Fallon to stop the
men from in uring the property after they
had made the threat. That was on the
same day. Fallon told her that he would
see about 1t, but he didn't go near the
house.
The father-in-law and mother-in-law Of
the woman and the husband also cor
roborated her in the testimony Mrs
Emily Snyder said that on the day fol-
lowing the fire at her daughter-in- laws
she went TO the scene and the women there
called her "scab" VIE and other UNI
pleasant names
Anthony Lcsinsky said that he was at