The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-02-17

Mr. barrow on Thursday. He took
up the entire time OF both sessions
five and a half hours. He touched on
almost every phase Of the strike. and
when he closed he was greeted with
long applause. which Chairman GRAY
did not suppress. President Mitchell
was in court all day. but did not have
anything TO say to tho commission in
parting.
Question Of Violence.
Yesterday Mr.. Darrow took up the
question of violence. "You can never
have a great strike excepting here
and there violence is done" he said.
''and so 81 was in the coal fields. where
100000 persons are living very close
TO life" Fc said is was no wonder
after the operators had insolently and
cruelty rejected the requests of the
men. that there was not more violence
among this population. which was re-
duced TO a condition bordering on star
vatiol. He paid a tribute TO the for
eigners in the coal regions. whom he
said were a warm hearted, emotional.
sympathetic. religious people. II
comes with poor grace. he said. for the
operators to say that the Poles and
Slavs. whose labor the operators have
taken for years. could not speak Eng
fish. and therefore are not response
Bile party with whom they could make
a contract. He spoke OF tho strict ad-
herence OF the operators to the dead
letter OF the law. and the moral law of
humanity and remarked that if each
of the captains of industry would re-
spect their fellow man, the bitter war
just ended would not have occurred.
and those who lost their lives In that
struggle would be alive today"
Conflicts between capital and labor
will continue, he said, until these cap
tains of industry respect their fellow
men. 1t is idle, futile and useless to
talk of cnring II in any other way, he
said.
John Markie's Cruelty.
Mr.. barrow then took up the IS evic-
tons on the MarlSle property. and with
language that was extremely strong he
pictured the eviction OF a sick wife
and of blind woman 100 years old.
You may roll together all the cruelty
and violence committed in the anthra-
cite region" he exclaimed, "and you
cannot equal the fiendish cruelty of
John Marble when he turned these
helpless people into the street simply
to satisfy his hellish hate"
Brigadier General Goblin. who com
manded one brigade OF the state troops
in the field during the strike. came in
for severe criticism from the miners
counsel. He read various reports
made to- General Goblin by his regimen
tai commanders, and severely con-
demned the generals now famous
"shoot to kill" order.
Turning to the boycott, Mr.. barrow
said there was one iilustrious example,
at least, in the United States of the
boycott, and that was in the Ameri-
can Revolution. There Is not one spe-
cifc act that is charged to the mine
workers, he said, but what was charg-
ed to the Loyalists whom we teach our
children to love and venerate. You
and may sit here and judge men by
the dead letter of the law. We may say
that this act is right and that act Is
wrong. but up there sits the living God,
and lie judges the acts of men by an
other standard than ours Let me say
there is the legal side and the moral
side. The boycott is an ancient
weapon; it is respectable when the
operators use ii, but not respectable
when we use it,"
The Non-Union Men.
He told of the distinction between
the boycott that is criminal and the
boycott that is within the law, and
then spoke of the non-union men.
whom he termed "scabs," although he
remarked he did not like the word,
but used 1t because it is commonly
used These men, ne saiu. nave M
ways been hated. Sometimes they are
good men. often they act from neces-
sity. but they are traitors to their
clsss. They are men, he continued,
who are used by the capitalists to de-
stToy the rights and aspirations and
hopes OF the workingmen.
LAS a class" he said. this body OF
uep. as they have in this case, have
always been ready to take the benefits
thai flow from organized labor and
never been willing to fight TO obtain II.