The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-13
FOREMAN ON THE STAND
PROCEEDINGS OF ANTHRAoITE
 STRIKE COMMISSION.
Delaware and Hudson Expects ts Complete Its Case Today and ~. the Erie Company win
 Next Be Heard.

Philadelphia, Jan. 12.-The proceedings before the anthracite coal strike comrnis. sion today consisted particularly of the calling of witnessed, by the Delaware ans Hudson Company, to ten of the condi- rions existing in and about It's coilieries. and to refute certain tesrmony presented against the company when the miners side was heard. In the absence of Chair man Gray. who is ili. srigadier General
 wilson again assumed the dudes of chair man. The Delaware and Hudson Com pany expects to conclude its case tognor- low when the Erie Company. which con- srols the Hillside Coal and Iron Com pany and the Pennsylvania Coal coua- pany. will present it's testimony.
 Abel L. Culver of New York. coutrciier of the Delaware and Hudson Company. on cross-examination. said today that the Delaware and Hudson Company wss sell .ng coal to middlemen at tdewater at 60 ton for prepared sizes. He did not know what prices the middiemen were receiving from the public bey@nd what ne read in the daily newspaperA It was decided to ask Thomss Y. TorFey os New
 York, general sales agent of the corn- pany. to come to Philadelphia and inform che committees what he knew on this fea- slre of the coal trade. t
 C. c. Rose of Scranton, superintendent of the coal department of the Delaware and Hudson Company. said several Of che compaLy's colieries were flooded as a re- sult ot the strike of the steamer men on June l. On crosh-exauninatiun. he said he would rather let the mines all with
 water than to submit to unreasonable demands made by the union.
 George Anderson of Scranton, q clerk m the coal department of the company. presented numerous statistics bearing upon the issue before the iccmmisston. One of the statements showed that 2,Ses of the oompany's 1s,25s employees have been working in or about the mines for from ten to saxy years. He produced data showing tho workings of the com- pany's relief fund with which more than o.0Oo of the company's employees are con- nected. Mr. Anderson also presented q statement showing that the twenty-eight colleries of the company lost 3eS ten-hour days in l9ot Cor which tho esnpsoyee were responsible. Of these. ii6 were lost on. account of picnics and other holidays tuot Including legal holidays); ss days on ac- count of Mitchell day." and other days. and l94 days on account of strikes and suspensions Another statement offered by the witness showed that sinoe the strike ended in the latter part of October the twenty>eight colleries lost tf0 days, re- pany 92.kll tons. ss
 Cross-sxamined by Mir. parfow, the witness said he procured most of his h. formation regarding the loss of time tor which the men were responsible from the of the company.
 Thohaas R. Thomas outside foreman at the Jermyne Co.liery of the company. told of the difiiculty he had in inducing the men to mine more coal. He produced a paper alleged to have been drawn up by local union No. l25. which stated that any man loading more cars in the head Ing than ears loaded in the chamharv would be expelled from the union. Two men, he said, violated this alleged rule of the union and their tools were destFoy- cd and one of their houses was dyna- mited.
 The two miners referred to. Michael MeHale and Harry Gilbert. cofTohorated the testimony of Mir. Thomas. who on cIoss-exaInination, said he was always willing to meet grievance committees of his own employees, but he would refuse to meet officials of the union who are not tn the mine over which he had charge.
 Henry Birkbeth. inside foreman of tha von storch Colliery, told of the injury of 3 boy in the mines and of dischargtng the man who was responsible for the acz cident. The union men in |, the coihery. he said. struck for the reinstatement of the dismissed man. The Injured boy cor roborated the testimony.
 William II. Dettrey of Neuremberg, the newly-elected President of District No, 0f the miners union. denied be had said nom n-union men should have their throats cut of should receive good thumpinG,' and several witnesses were called who his statements.
 Praaident Dettrey said his family was and his house stoned by enemies of the union while he was away from home on business connected with the union. .s
 David Davis, foreman of the Langllffa T. H. Hughes. foreman of the Plymouth No, Colhery, and Fred Bad- man, foreman of Plymouth No 8. all tes- tified that since the strike of 1900 the miners and laborers will not load as many ,arS as they did prior to that strike, fearing expulsion from the union.
 James P. Dickson, freight agant of the Delaware and Hudson Company, at Wil- handed up a statement show ng that the prices of groceries. meats. md other necessaries of life. during the past three years were only slightly above hose of 1900.