The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-19
SUFFERINGS OF THE
NON-UNION WORKERS
Continued from Page 1.)

John Hoffman, brother Of the pre-
seding witness, and Ellen Hoffman. the
wife, also told Of the attack and,
furthermore, that some one overturned
the stove and set the house afire They
extingushed 1t with the help OF a next
door neighbor.
Duncan Mcintyre, a Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western blacksmith from
Nanticoke. testified that because he re-
fused to quit work he was hung in
eff1gy three times and once an indecent
effgy Of his wife was suspended along
side his own. One day when he was
returning from work he saw a crowd
of boys dragging his wife's etiigy
through the streets A number of men
were encouraging them. The efflgy
was tied to q post in front of his home.
His wife, who was about to become a
mother. was seriously affected by the
affair.
Mrs. James Mcnamara, OF Parsons.
the wife of a Delaware and Hudson
engineer who worked during the strike,
told that one night, while her husband
was away. herself and infant narrowly
escaped being cremated by fire,
which she could not account for
Mr.. Darrow, on DISCRIMINATION,
asked the witness IL she accused the
union of setting the house afire.
Judge Gray remarked: Il feel that
the commission will be disposed to be-
lieve the fire was of inCendiary origin,
Mr.. Darrow."
John Trunble, of Plymouth, Il Dela-
ware. Lackawanna and Western MAJ
chinist, told of being chased by crowds
of strikers, of his wife being refused
meat by two butchers.
A printed list of 112 non-union men,
with the surerscription that they were
unfair and deserving of the con-
tempt of mankind which had been
posted in Kingston. was offered in evil.
dencc and accepted.
Fallon Did Not Know.
John Fullon, member of the ma
tional board Of the United Mine Work
ers. was called to the stand and en-
amined by Mr. Lenahan. He denied
that he knew the Courier-Herald was
the organ of the Central Labor union
of Wilkes-B Barre. or that it had pub
lished boycott list. He admitted that
he secured bail for union men arrested
for strike violence.
William Myles. a Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western pumprunner, told
of a barber refusing to shave him, and
of butcher refusing to sell his wife
meat.
William Schuech, ST., outside foreman
at the Lehigh Valley Coal company's
No. 40 colliery, in Hazleton. gave testi-
mony that Tended slightly, at least, to
contradict the miners witnesses who
stated that Hazleton during the strike
was second Peaceful valley.
On August "a. the newspapers an
nounced THAT No. 40 collery would re-
sumo opefation on the following Mon
day. On the following Monday. Scheuch,
while on{his way to work, saw crowd
OF strikf frs assaulting his son. He ran
up to Tescue his son. and as he ap-
proache)h. so he says, Squire McKelvy
called-~6ut: Here's the old ----.
Pitsth into him. The crowd diverted
it's attention from the son and directed
it to the father. When the latter woke
up three days later in the hospital, he
found he had three stab wounds. two
ribs broken on the left side and three
on the right, "A cash in his scalp and
bruises on every part of his body. The
witness averred that Squire McKelvy
led the attack and that the fifty men
. in the mob We're strikers.
You We're coal and iron policeman,
were you not?" asked General Wilson.
Yes. sir" said the witness
why did you not use your gum"
queried the general.
We'll. l was afraid I would hit my
son, who was in the midst of the
crowd" Schuech answered.
On cross ss-eXanination, Mr.. Mccarthy
tried to make it appear that Squire
McKelvy interfered only for the pur
pose of saving the Schuechs from the
mob. and that the attack was provoked
by the elder Schuech being too otficious
rs a coal and iron policeman. but the
witness would not agree with him in
either regard.
Corroborated by Son.
William Schuech jr.. corrobora ted
his fathers account of the assault, and
asserted emphatcally that Squire Me-
Kelvy melted the mob to the assault.
Mrs. George Richardson, of Parsons,
told of her husband being threatened.
her son assailed, ana of merchants re-
fusing her goods because her husband
continued to work as a fireman at the
Laurel Run colliery of the Delaware
and Hudson company.
Her nuSDanu, Sle Salu. was Il lfeDOSS
at the Laurel Run, and during the
strike acted as a fireman to help keep
the pumps going. The day after the
steam men were called out. her boy,
who worked in the Wilkes Barre Lace
confpanys mill, came home, bearing
note, which read as follows:
George Richardson:
''As long as you are an unfair work.
man we won't work with your son,
"(Signed) Brass Bobbn Winders of
Wilkes Barre Lace Mill"
The witness said she found out, after
wards, that Manager Doran, of the lace
mill, knew nothing of her boy being
sent home, with the note.
Mrs. Richardson also told that Bur-
CESS Davis, OF Parsons, VINO keeps a
butcher shop, refused to sell her meat,
because the mine workers had threat
ened to boycott him If he did. Grocer
Sward told her that the strikers COM
mittee had notified him not to sell her
provisions. He ignored the notice.