New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-12-24
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,H0nuGlOH LlBoaEas on the STAND.



Scranton, Pa, Dec. Is. The an
thracite coal operators opened their
eide Of the controversy with the
mine workers Wednesday before the
strike commission, and the attorneys
who are on record before the cons
mission as representing the nom
union men, who have been admitted
to the arbitration scheme, began call.
ing witnesses. The sessions were
probably the liveIest yet held by the
commission. At the MOI ming session
the miners lawyers challenged the.
fairness Of certain wage statements
handed to the commission by the
Pennsylvania Coal company, and in
the afternoon Lawyer Darrow had
u spirited discussion with Chairman;
Gray as to whether or not the miners
had ight to know who is paying
the lawyers representing the nom
union men before the commission.
Mr.. barrow asserted they were en-
.ployed by the coal operators. Pre-
ceding this Simon p Wolverton.,
counsel for the Reading company,
who delivered the opening address on
behalf Of all the large coal compa-
MES, made the point in his address
that the recognition of the union Is
not an issue before the commission.
which bro,,e,ht out 4 protest from
Mr.. barrow. The latter claimed that
if it were not, then the operators
should be forbidd den from presenting
testimony that tended to show the
union was responsible for all the al
legged violence committed during the
strike
Say Reign Of Terror Existed.
q Scranton, Pa, Dec. 19.-The coal
strike commission listened Thursday
to further ties timony tending to. show
that reign of terror .ss..d in the
anthracite coal fields dariiis g: q the sjl4s
months of the mine workers strike.
About score Of witnesses were
called during the two sessions by the
attorneys for the nonunion men.
They told of serious boycotts, bru-
tai attacks by crowds Of men, won-
EN- and boys, and an attempt to burn
the house of a nonunion man. In
most instances the witnesses testi-
fed that the alleged offenders were
members of the miners union The
lawyers for the miners objected fire.
quently to the admission of testi-
mony or hearsay and sometimes oh
jected because of irrelevancy of GER
tain other sta tements.
Chairman Gray said the commission
was not bound by any strict rules
of evidence, but asked counsel to con-
fine themselves in examining wit
nesses as for as possible to direct
evidence. He said it was too difficult,
in trying to prove that boycotts ex-
ist, to get information on the subject.
The commission he said, wanted to
know whether reign of terror ex-
listed in the anthracite region, and it
could not get that information if the
strict rules of evidence were applied.
The coward who will go to the
storekeepers," he said, land tell them
not to sell the necessaries of life TO
q poor woman, usually seeks the OBJ
security that the law Of evidence
throws around him. If a girl is dis
charged from her position in store.
because she rode in a street car in
inclement weather, while a street car
strike was on, the coward who dis
charged her is coward enough to re-
fuse to testify" He recognized, he
said, why some merchants will not
come forward and tell who forced
him to refuse to sell necessaries Of
life to certain boycotted persons, but
if he Chairman Gray were a store
keeper, he thought he would risk his
all in order to assist in breaking up
the coWardly business.
M Life Made Mia cradle.
Scranton, Pa, Dec. 2O.-Nonunion
men, some Of their relatives and 9TH
ers to the number of 30, appeared he
fore the coal strike commission and
told their stories of alleged boycotts,
Sintimid ations, dynamiting and vio-
lence in various forms, during the late
strike. Each witness called was a
sufferer 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