Evening journal., 1902-12-09
TRIKE BOARD
| WAS SURPRISED
.stimony Showed Miners
Did Not Get Straight 10
Per Cent. Increase
ME MYSTERIOUS FIGURING

Illnesses Tell OF Markie q Company's
Aanner Of Treating Employcs-een-
raj Wilson Objects to President
Roosevelt Being Called "Teddy."
'cranton, Pa, Dec 9. - The coal
like commission yesterday heard evil
bee presented by the mine workers
their side Of the controversy with
B. Marllle & Company in the Halle
region. The Marl1le Company was
represented before the commission
its own lawyers, although it had
pie notice that testimony affecting
hir collieries would be presented.
r commissioners expect the com
by to bring in evidence in rebuttal
1 the stories told by witnesses on Sat
hay and yesterday.
rhe powder question came before
commission yesterday afternoon
4 d caused considerable discussion. 1t
S brought about by Commissioner
hrk asking for the recall of Paul
nleavy, a Markle miner, who had
titled at the morning session. Mr..
ark read to the witness the state
nts of wages submitted by him,
Itch showed that some months he
ed the company money for powder.
te witness could not tell clearly how
WAS that he was in debt, and added
ht in his way of thinking the 10 per
Alt. increase granted by the company
ll1900 was not an increase at all. He
planned that the company, along
th the other coal companies. grant
the men a reduction in the price of
WIDER from S2.75 TO $15O, but that
i reduction in the powder was to be
hsidered in the 10 per cent increase
wages. In other words, they got a
: cents increase in wages, and the
WIDER reduction amounted to an in
base in wages Of 71a per cent, or 10
r. cent. in all. This information
me as a great surprise to the com
issioners, who stated from the
| ench" that they all were under the
4 preston that the advance was a
'aight 10 per cent
i In some way Of figuring, the Marlle
mpany, it was testified to, placed
me of the men in debt for the pow
|ar. No one seemed to know how it
is done, and as none of the attorneys
Independent operators present
ew how the Marlzle Company figured
out.
John D. Hughes, the Scranton man
er for Armour & Company, gave the
4 lolesale prices for all meats, COM
ring them with the prices prevailing
1900 and 1901. He presented a large
ass of figures, all of which showed
at the prices of meats of all kinds
We increased 231a per cent. over the
ices of 1900.
Ira NJ. Burns. lawyer for the indie
ndent operators, who in cross-ex-
lination tried to show that the high
locery prices were due to short crops,
aking grain dearer for the feeding
N animals, then took Mr.. Hughes in
large and brought forth a rebul1e
4 bm General Wilson. Mr.. Burns said:
lon't you know that the rise in the
ices of meats was due to the meat
Ist?"
Witness-'T don't know Of any such
stitution."
Mr.. Burns-"Do you agree with
iat Teddy Roosevelt says about the
Ists?"
Witness-"I believe in some Of it,"
Before the witness could finish his
swer General Wilson jumped up,
d with rising indignation, said:
IT. Chairman, 1 object to any per
n before this board referring to the
Resident Of the United States in that
/ amer"
This caused a furry, but Mr.. Burns
lmly replied, "He sometimes calls
nself that"
Chairman Gray, however. smoothed
alters out by saying: q think the
lection is we'll taken, to which Mr.
rms replied, "Well, we will call him
e president of the United States"
Mrs. Andrew Chippie, the mother
the 12-year-old breaker boy who
stified on Saturday that he had q
prlz out the debt Of his father, tool
stands and substantiated all the
y had said. She gave the additional
formation through an interpreter
at the Markle Company wanted hel
sign a paper waving all right tC
the company for the killing oi
r husband in their mines. The com
ny promised her rent and coal free
six months, but she refused t.
yn. Upon her refusal to do so they
arged up rent and coal, and the lit
boy was compelled to work at foui
nts an hour in the breaker. but hii
ages are so small the debt is in
easing.
Another Hungarian woman. who's
isband was killed at the same timl
rs. Chippie's husband lost his life