Bisbee daily review., 1921-09-22
EST|MONY At
STRIKE HEARING
CONTRADICTORY
Miners Claim They Had to
Sign Wage Cut Petition;
Operators Deny Charge

TRINIDAD, Colo, Sept. 81. = (By
,4o AsevvIa.eu rressJ- Resumption
the hearing OF the mine wdSe u4,-
4,..O uo4O-u .no Colorado industrial
commission at NIoriey NINE To-Day ue-
,eIOped contrauIctory evidence, In
cIuuIng charges Oh pIcketlng BY Wiz
nosses lUf me company, charges OF
Misrepresentation on the part or the
company by witnesses Tor the miners.
ASILoLIon Ior u REDUCTION Al waoeo
Was sLalIed by employees at this mIne
aCCOl ung 20 tne testimony or CnarleS
Chambers, superintendent % tne
luIne. he si,Iu Cnarles a. Marshall,
weIghtmaster, asked mis- consent TO
50 alnOne, Tie lnen Win the petition.
marshall corroDorateu lnis testimony
but croSS-eXamInaClon dleW an auiuIS
sion that tIrsL circulation OF the peIi-
ton obtained only 69 signatures. sub
sequently, he testified, one OIL tue Two
mines Oh me Morley camp closeu
down. Later the number OF signers
increased to 160. .ss
Miners testlned that Marshall, Lou
is C1cora, miner, and one of the en-
ployeS' representative under the
Rockefeller industrial plan, the three
petition, told them unless they sign
gu Tor d reduction, other mines would
probably be closed" Then some min
ers tesrlned, tney signeu, preIerr.ng
a reduction in wages to the alterna-
tive OF no work at all. Marshall anu
Clcora and a company representa-
tive denied having made TINS state
Inent TO the men.
PIcketlng Is Charged
Vincenso Brecia, mule urlver, who
declared he spoke little bit OF Eng
hsh but not too mucn,' testiued ne
aIun't sign the petition. Let the
mine close, | no sign reduction
wages" he declared he told those ap-
preaching him with the petition. Sew
eral witnesses testified they were
members OF a group OF about 25 men
lounglnS ABOUT the company store
one afternoon when two representa-
tlves OF the miners returned from d
meeting OF representatives OF this dis
trlct, which was addressed by Off
Gals OF the company. Representa-
tlves told them, they testified, that
the second mine would be closed Sep
TENDER l, unless something happen
ed"
They said most OF the men went to
the mine office and signed the petit
LOn.
Charges that some miners, princi-
pally those who had not signed petit
lions for reductions, picketed the
NINE and cursed pen, golng to work
under the reduced wage scale, were
i..4-U Dy montgomery MaSingale,l out
side foreman at the Morley mine.
We IL get you dirty scabS," they
told the men who worked, >MasingaIe
.estllled, adding that they called them
vile names, and made oCher threats.
Masingale said, on cross-examina-
ton, that no violence had been at.
tempted and related "a conversation
an organizer of the United Mine
workers had with his men in which
he urged them not to use rough
suuii, but to keep the men from 60
ing to work. .'
Only $40 Day
You must not have any trouble,
but II anyone comes around your
mouse bothering you, shoot him. the
union organizer told the men, accord
ing TO Masingale. Efforts to learn
the name of this alleged organizer
failed. Masingale said he knew him
under three names. Counsel Farrar
for the company, asked Romilly +.
hoote, attorney for the miners, if h
would give the commission the name
OF this organizer. Foote replied he
considered this under the scope
rdrrars investigation, not his. He
explained to the commission that IL
organizer was not in this territory
now, and he would have no way to
meet the testimony of Masingale.
The question of fairness OF wage
came into the investigation again
today when Counsel Farrar asked Joe
Chesnek. Slavic youth of about 10
years, what his daily wage amounted
20. Chesnek replied, Ten dollars"
The hearing is scheduled to be re-
sumed tomorrow morning at Sopris
mine.
RAGING POSTPONED