Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-14
THE FOURTH DAY OF STE2IkE-NON-UNION MEN ARE HERI
GETTING AFTER COAL BARONS
Judiciary Committee of. Con- gress Taking Extrem @ Steps

Committee Appointed to See If Con
 gress Has Power to Take Possession
 of Coal Fields-An Early Answer '. Asked For-General Superintendent
 of Coal Department on Witness
 Stand To-Day.
 Washington, Jan 14.-The chairman of the house judiciary committee pre- sented the following resolution to-day:
 ''That the committee on judiciary be requested to report to the house at the earliest possible time the opinion of that committee as to the powers of congress to declare that the necessity has arisen for taking possession of all coal, coal beds and coal mines in the United States, and all lines of trans mission, agencies, vehicles and instru- ments of commerce necessary for the transportation of coal, and that if the power exists and the necessity has arisen, that the committee report to the house a bill declaring the neces- sity, and providing in detail the occa- sion, modes, conditions and agencies for said appropriation that will fully and completely exhaust the power of congress in that regard.
 Washington, Jan 14.--In the senate to-day the Vest resolution regarding the removal of the duty on anthracite coal was considered.
 Washington, Jan 14.-In the house to- day MT Grosvenor of the committee on rules presented resolution supple mental to that adopted yesterday di- recflng the com mittee on merchant ma r1ne and fisheries to investigate the coal situation. The resolution author 1zed subcommittee of the committee to take testimony.
 MT Dalzeu of Pennsylvania presented special rule for the consideration of the coal rebate bill.
 Philadelphia, Jan 14-When the ses- sion of the coal strike commission opened to-day counsel for the Erie Go, which operates the collieries of the Hillside Coal & Iron Go, and the Penn sylvania Go continued the presentation of it's case. Captain w. A. May, gen. eral superintendent of the coal depart ment of the company, who was on the witness stand yesterday, continued his testimony about the conditions in and about the company's collieries. He said that he was always willing to meet grievance committees of his own men or anyone else and where there was real grievance it was always ad- justed.
 Bishop Spalding asked the witness If the men did not feel timid about making complaints and the witness re. piled that probably they may have been timid. The instructions to the bosses, he said, were that foremen must listen to the men. and that com plaints would not count against the men.
 The superintendent said the com pany has no blacklist" and he never heard of one being in existence in the coal regions. There was no objection by the company to the men in its en- ploy organizing to make complaints, but it did object to the union as now organized, because it brought between the men and the company, whose re- lations should be cordial, persons who were not interested in the company and only indirectly with the men,
 The entrance of the union into the mines. he said had the effect of mak- ing the workmen less efficient; it caused a lack of discipline, interfered with authority, caused tyranny against other workmen and limited the earning capacity of the employees.