The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-17
TESTIMONY AGAINST MINERS
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$500 and 500: rs worked full time and
earned between 300 and $500: % earned
from $500 to $500; three earned from
1900 10 $1,000, and three received over
$1,000.
On cross examination Mr.. Northrup
said that the check docking boss and
the docking boss employed at three Of
the company's collieries always agreed
on the docking Of cars.
The witness presented a statement
showing the average dockage at the
three cOllieries. At the Pine Brook
colHery before the check docking bass
was employed the average dockage was
3.11 per cent, and after he was en-
ployed It fell to LII At the Mount
Pleasant collieries it was 4.44 and at
ter the check man was put on it fell
to 239. At the Johnson mine the aver
age was 6.46 and then 3.13 per cent.
Mr.. Northrup further testified that
since the company employed a check
weighman the men have been sending
out coal with greatly reduced guam
| tity of foreign substance on 1t. This,
| he said, was very satisfactory to the
company.
James Smith. inside foreman at three
collieries, gave instances of insubordi-
nation on the part of the mine work.
ers. He told of a miner refusing to
work at certain place for sum fixed
by the company. and the inability of
; the company to get men to fill his place
| because of the rule of the union that
one man shall not take anothers place
unless discharged for good cause; Of
runners refusing to deliver cars to min
ers who had not paid their dues to the
union; Of men refusing to properly top
cars because 1.-The local. told them to
do it in another way; of, the refusal
of men, under instruction of the union,
from working in the mines when the
breaker is not working; of the refusal
of men to handle cars that were low
cred into the mines by non-union en-
gineer.
One OF the company's breakers burn
ed down just before the strike began
last year. and the union men, he said,
would not permit builders to work on
it during the suspension. 1t will not
be ready for operation for about a
week, but if the union would have per-
mitted the company to have it built
during the strike, he added, it would
have been ready for operations when
the strike was declared off last Octo-
Der
The foreman also stated that the men
stay in the mines about an hour longer
since the company started to keep Their
time, but that the amount of coal has
not increased much. He also said thai
men who went to the soft coal regions
when the strike began returned as soor
as it was over. They told him that the
work in the bituminous regions was
harder, that they could not do so well
nor was the living as good as in the
hard coal fields; that in the soft Goa
regions if a man for some reason does
not mine his share Of coal one day hi
can make up the shortage the mex
day. ~
In reply to Commissioner Watkin!
the witness said the company has los
two or three half days on account o
the scarcity of railroad cars.
The witness also stated there Is M
way of determining the amount of clear
coal in a mine car as they are nov
handled He concluded his testimon,
by stating that the company pays tn
= = same rate for different sizes of min
cars, and that the men who want t
{ strict the number Of cars each MAJ
should send to the surface are generall
: not willing to work hard enough t
keep up with other more industriou
, men.