Evening journal., 1903-02-14
DARROWS' SPEECH
ENDS HEARING
Commission Will Meet
in Washington to Con
slider Its Award
WAS IN SESSION THREE MONTHS


Philadelphia. Feb 1.-THE anthra'
cite coal strike commission, after be-
ing in public session for more than
three months. closed its open hearings
yesterday with an all-day argument by |
Clarence s. Darrow in behalf Of the
miners. The commission win meet in
secret in Washington next Thursday
and begin the consideration of its
award. II is expected that by the end |
of this month the arbitrators will be
ready to make their announcement |
If an increase in wages is determined |
upon the increase is to date from the
1st OF last November, the commission |
having decided upon that date on
October 81. After the session yester
day the commission held a short con
ference with the lawyers for the sew
eral sides and asked them to hold
themselves in readiness in case they
are called upon by the commission.
The crowd that heard Mr. Darrov
speak yesterday was fully as great as
that which listened to Mr. Baer and
Mr.. Darrow on Thursday He took
up the entire time of both sessions
i've and 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 the 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 it was in the coal fields, where
4 100000 persons are living very close
TO life" He 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
2 walton. 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
5 taken for years. could not speak Eng
4 lish. and therefore are not a responsi
u bic party with whom they could make
tel a contract. He spoke of the strict ad
gl herence Of the operators TO the dead
.r letter Of the law. and the moral law o
$, humanity, and remarked that if "eacl
=, of the captains Of industry would re
spect their fellow man, the bitter wal
just ended would not have occurred
- and those who lost their lives in thai
e struggle would be alive today"
Conflicts between capital and labor
y will continue. he said. until these cap
tains of industry respect their fellow
it men, It IS idle, futile and useless tC
talk Of curing It in any other way, he
: said
John Marke's Cruelty.
Mr. Darrow then took up the 13 evic
tlons on the Marldo property, and will
- language that was extremely strong h'
2 pictured the eviction Of a sick wifi,
and of a blind woman 100 years old
"You may roll together all the cruelt.
and violence committed in the anthra
cite region" he exclaimed, "and yol
cannot equal the flendish cruelty o
: John Marl1le when he turned thes
/" helpless people into the street simpl
TO satisfy his hellish hate"
D Brigadier General Goblin. who CON
- manded one brigade OF the state troop
4 IN the field during the strike, came Il
=, for severe criticism from the miners
IL counsel. lie read various report
made TO General Goblin by his regimen
tai commanders, and severely cor
demned the generals now famou
4 "shoot to kill" order.
Turning to the boycott, Mr Darro'
said there was one illustrious exampl,
- at least, in the United States OF th
boycott and that was in the Amer
can Revolution. There IS not one sp
cihc act that is charged to the min
~ workers. he said. but what was char
ed to the T.oyalists whom VIC teach ol
children 10 love and venerate. "Yc
and may sit here and Judge men .
the dead letter of the law. We may ss
that this act is right and that act
- wrong but un there sits the living Go
- and he judges the acts of men by a
vs. other standard than ours. Let me 81
ali there Is the legal side and the NOR
side The boycott is an ancie
weapon IL is respectable when Il
operators use it. but not respecab
- when we use it.
The Non-Union Men.
He told of the distinction betwe
the boycott that is criminal and q
- boycott that is within the law. al
~ then spoke of the non-union me
whom he termed "scabs." although
remarked he did not like the wol
but used Il because IL Is common
- used These men, he said. have
ways been hated. Sometimes they a
3 good men. often they act from nee
4 slty. but they are traitors to IN,
= class They are men. he continue
who are used by the capitalists to