The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-12-05

said, 81 could look at scabs hanged"
and the others echoed her sentiment.
To what extent this feeling carries men
was illustrated in Lansford. Sharpe,
union man, who was shot by a dcpu-
tv, had funeral such as was never
witnessed in that town. All the union
men from the mining villages came to
pay the last tribute of respect to one
whom they considered a martyr for
the cause. The union leaders were in
charge, and the procession was solemn
and impressive. A few weeks after, a
non. union Hungarian who worked was
accidentally killed. On the day OF the
funeral the undertaken could not get a
man to remove his remains from the
house to the funeral car His fellow
countrymen said, "Him die scab, him
bury scab,'' and to man they kept
away from the funeral.
The families of the men who worked
are subject to social ban. Some men
left Lackawanna county, where they
would not work, and came to Schuyl-
kill to seek employment. They worked
where they were not known, and kept
closely within the stockade of the col
lery. If their neighbors at home
learned that they were working else
where in these coal fields, the lives of
their wives and children were soon
made miserable. 1t meant social ostra-
cism. Three wives came from Luzerne
county to Schuylkill lately in quest of
their husbands They said they could
not stand it Ion ,'r, and resolved either
to stay at the coliery with their hus-
bands or to go home together. The
children of those who worked were
subjected to insults, and many fisti-
cuffs were the result One young man
whose father workt d in another section
was badly beaten in a fight His
mother said, "Why didn't You let them
alone to say what they would?' NO,
man," lie said; II wasn't going to let
them speak dirt about pap" Little
children would not play with "scab"
children, and most pathetic was it to
hear a child "l'll be Johnny Mitch
ell man, only let me play Women
anxious to live in peace were insulted
by their ncighbors if their husbands
worked. Innuendoes, sneers, oblo-
quies, are weapons which hurt, and no
civil Or military power can save the
victim. A family moved from one
part of town TO another a week ago,
and the mother said, ~ couldn't stand
it no longer; those women are terrible. "
The landlord said, "lm glad they're
gone l don't want dynamite here
because of scabs."
When the Eighth Regiment was
called out on the night of July 80. an
tagonism between men residing in the
same town was still further intensified.
Many mine employees who were loyal
union men belonged to that regiment.
Each ones soul was racked by conflict
ing duties-the State versus the union
but, to the credit of the young men
be it said, not one of them tailed to re-
spond to the midnight summons. No
one will ever know what was the sacri-
flee these boys made when they obeyed
the Governors call to arms. One hest
tated and said, "I'll run away, mother
Erred, no; Will, your brother, was no
coward" Will had died in the Philip
pines, and Fred went to the armory
hat night. As the callers went from
house to house where their comrades
lived, the strikers soon learned thei
mission and gathered in large COM
panies near the armory. Each men,
Der as he came was hootcd and vilifird.
A young lad left his home, and imme-
diately his parents heard the crowd
yelling. They feared violence, and
both of them, bareiooted and scantily
clad, ran to protect the son and accom-
pany him to the armory. AS one CON-
pany left the armory their companions
and neighbors called them "scabs." ."
1t was too much for one of the soldiers;
he stepped from the ranks and struck
one of the vilifers a blow which fioored
him. The soldiers who are union men
may he excommunicatcd from the
union. Many of them will leave the
companies as soon as peace is restored.
Ore of this class said, "To think OF
shooting down my fellow work men is
terrible. No more for me rs soon as
this is over Troops from distance
are not so rent by conflicting senti-
ments. They can calmly speak Of
shooting down mine employee, and
joyously exhibit the bullets which