Evening journal., 1903-01-13
TELL CONDITION
OF THE MINES
Witnesses Called to Repute
Testimony Against Della
ware and Hudson
.cHk'GED HOLIDAYS 70 MEN

Philadelphia, Jan. 10. ~ The pro-
teedings before the anthracite coal
strike commission yesterday consist
ed principally of the calling OF wit
nesses by the Delaware and Hudson
Company to tell of the conditions in
kand about its collieries and 10 refute
certain testimony presented against
the company when the miners side
was being heard. In the absence Of
Chairman Gray, who is i'll, Brigadier
kdeneral Wilson again assumed the
duties Of chairman.
George Anderson OF Scranton. a
clerk in the coal department of the
company, presented numerous stats
tics bearing upon the issues before
the commission. One of the state
ments showed that 1888 of the com
pany's 1928 employees have been
working in or about the mines from
ten to sixty years. He produced data
showing the workings of the com
pany's relief fund, with which more
than 5000 of the company's employees
are connected. The workers pay to
the fund one days pay each year, the
company contributing an equal
amount. Men who are injured re-
ceiye Sc a week for three months. and
in case OF death their heirs receive
4 $50 for funeral expenses. The widows
receive SO a week for one year, and 81
week for one year for each child
Under IL years of age. The company
q liked $2.18 as the amount a contract
& miner should contribute as a days
E pay
Mr.. Anderson also presented a
S statement showing that the 2s collier
es Of the company lost 36S days in
L901 for which the employees we're re-
ponsibls. OF these 115 were lost on
& Recount Of picnics and other holidays
not including legal holidays), SO days
pn account of Mitchell Day" and 9TH
r union days, and 194 days on ac-
cunt Of strikes and suspensions.
The witness said he procured most
his information regarding the loss
II time for which the men were re-
ponsible from the foremen Of the COM
lany, and in answer to a question by
dr Darrow. he said he never knew
4 foreman turning in a report show
ng that he (the foreman) was respon-
ible for colliery being idle.
Particular attention was directed by
Ir Darrow, Of counsel for the Miners
Jnion. to showing that the company
a charging the miners with having
reduced some $4,000 tons less than a
ormal output since the late strike. had
ased the charge on daily output Of
900 tons, whereas the company's act
al daily output for 1891 was 10000
pms
David Davis, foreman of the Lang
life colliery; H. T. Hughes. foreman
the Plymouth. No. 5, colliery, and
frederick Badman, foreman Of Ply
houth, No. 3, all testified that since
be strike of 1900 the miners and la
orers will not load as many cars as
hey did prior to that strike. The men
Fere willing, but were afraid Of expul-
on from the union. Mr.. Hughes told
/ how a portion Of the men in his
blliery struck because the company
ould not pay for standing props and
hat one chamber in the mine was boy
Dtted because it was hard to work. A
q brtain mark was placed in the cham
er, he said, and when a union man
as asked to work the place and saw
his mark he would refuse to do 1t.
William H. Dettrey, of Neuremberg
he newly elected president Of District
o. Z, Of the Miners Union, against
hom It was testified last week that he
hid non-union men should have theil
hroats cut or should receive a "good
humping" was summoned to the wit
ess stand by the miners. He denied
le charges absolutely, and severa
illnesses were called who corroborat
his statements. President Dettre.
bok occasion to say while on the stan'
iat his family was annoyed and hi
ouse stoned by enemies of the unioI
hile he was away from home on busi
sss connected with the union.