The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-12

"you are paid by the carp" suggested
Major Warren.
| "Yes," the witness answered.
DO you get all the cars you want?
Judge Gray inquired.
"Yes, more than we want" the wit
ness replied. "They want us to load
seven cars, but the men at that shaft
will never do It,"
You complain sometimes of not re-
| ceiving enough cars, and again of re-
| ceiving too many, don't your" inquired
Judge GRAY.
'If we were paid the right price for
| them, we wouldn't complain so much, y
said the witness. Anyhow. six cars is
enough to get out in one day."
Major Warren asked the witness If 1t
was to be understood he was not will
ing to cooperate with the company
even to this extent in helping to relieve
the coal famine. The witness said he
ought to get more pay.
School Statistics.
John w. Griffith. superintendent of
schools at Nanticoke, a town of $4,000
inhabitants, gave testimony along the
same lines as that of Superintendents
Taylor, Phillips and Cummings, who
were on the stand Wednesday. Only
per cent. of the pupils in the High
school, he said, are children of miners,
although So or 30 per cent. of the popu-
lation is made up of miners and their
families.
Mr.. Torrey cross-eXamined Rev.
Father O'Donneil at the afternoon ses-
sion. The witness stated that his father
was a miner and that he. himself, had
worked in the mines from the time he
was nine until he was thirteen. lie de-
clined to state what salaries are paid
priests in this community.
He did not know what wages were
paid Delaware and Hudson miners in
Olyphant, but expressed the opinion
that their lot was as good as that of
any miners in the region.
With the aid of "would it surprise the
wives and daughters of the Olyphant
miners to know" Mr. Torrey presented
a statement that the average earnings
of miners in 1901 at the Olyphant No
2 was $6T871; at the Grassy Island,
s7O7.29, and at the Eddy Creek. $645.42
Mr.. Torrey also stated that the Del
aware and Hudson company would
gladly cooperate with the witness in
preventing the employment of boys un-
der the legal age.
Referring to the statement of the wit
ness that the reports Of strike violence
had been greatly exaggerated in the
newspapers and adducing from him that
the papers he read We're friendly to the
miners cause, Mr.. Torrey asked the
witness to give an explanation, if he
could, of what prompted the eXaggera-
tions. The witness thought it was be-
cause the reporters got the information
from parties who wanted the reports
exaggerated.
At this juncture occurred the col
loquy on boycOttins' related previously.
Change of Mine Ton.
Patrick O'BOyle, Il CarbOndale miner.
gave testimony regarding the change in
the mine ton from 2,240 pounds to $500
weight, as previously described several
times.
Mr.. Reynolds pointed out that there
had been forty per cent. increase in
wages since that time and thirty-five
per cent. decrease, thirty per cent. of
the increase being voluntarily given by
the companies.
"And. Mr.. Reynolds" interrupted
Judge Gray, looking at Il tablet before
him. 81 have Just figured out that the
increase in the size of the ton from
2,240 to twenty-eght hundred weight
or 3.l36 pounds, is just forty per cent"
The miners among the operators ap-
plauded vigorously. The judge waited
until the applause had subsided and
then reminded the operators that dem
onstrations of approval or disapproval
on theiJ. mart were forbidden.