The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-04-12

pointed assignee, hence he got his
start from the misfortune of others,
and the bulk of his enormous for
tune has been gained from the loss
Of others. Coke was selling for soc
per ton, f. o. b. cars at ovens in 1878,
and jumped in one jump to $3.50
per ton in 1879, it is now selling for
from $1,000 to $11.00 per ton, f. O.
b. works. Some fat sure in pres
ent prices Of coke.
The miners in the Connellsville
coke region in 1878 were mostly
West Virginians, and earned about
$500 per day-but very, very sell
dom got any money; company stores
and company houses ate up the min
erS wages; company stores sold
merchandise to the miners at about
800 per cent profit, and the men had
to deal at the company stores, or lose
their jobs.
Clay Fffck introduced Hungarian
labor into the Connellsville region
and dispensed entirely with Ameri-
can miners, that had each occupied
a house themselves for their family,
when the Hunkeys came, about 20
Of them occupied the house that one
American miner and his family had
occupied and these Hunkeys live
like dogs, use a pint tin cup for
basin, etc.
When the price of coke jumped in
1879, the American miners got no
raise in wages, but Frick closed large
yearly contracts at the advanced
price Of $3.50 per ton with Chicago
Steel Works. North Chicago Rolling
Mills, (Potter) alone, was for 80 cars
per day.
tricks recent biography does not
mention anything about his working
Hungarian women at his coke plants,
doing the very heavy and dirty la
Dor of men, a practise that the State
Of Pennsylvania stopped. The wri-
ter had occasion to make a trip
through the Connellsville coke re-
gions in February, 1891, and saw
with his own eyes, Hungarian women
drawing the coke from the ovens, and
loading same in the cars: this was
in nnidwfnter, cold, with snow on the
ground: these Hungarian women had
no shoes ON, no stockings, but did
have short skirt on, just reaching
a little below their knees. The Con-
nellsvilIe coke region has considera-
BILE altitude, and in places is noun
famous so you can realize what it is
in winter time.
The writer was employed as a
bookkeeper, ETC., in the coke re-
gions mentioned, in 1878, and the
firm he was with, OVerhOlts, had
mines and coke ovens on q farm ad-
Joining the Johnson farm, that Frick
was raised on.
tricks biography does not give
the facts in connection with the
Homestead killing" when he was
chairman of the Carnegie Steel Co.
I think sometimes, that it was mis-
fortune that Berkman's bullet did
not kill the degenerate Prick.
Frick has been an 'insider" in
Wall Street and money circles for
quite WHILE and has certainly
fried a lot of fat" out OF the
American people. He got in wrong
with one of the Overholt women, but
squashed the matter somehow. He
has been operating the Overholt Dis
tillery for some time, it is very old
plant, over 100 years old, I think.
Andy Carnegie's record is not so
bad as Tricks, but good reliable folks
do say, that Andy sent his female
cousin and her illegitimate child, of
Andys, to California years ago, and
has kept them in comfort ever since,
just one Of Andy's ghosts, he was
snubbed by a very estimable Pitts
burgh lady before he married his
present wife. Andy's early record in
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