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Show MINERS WERE "SHANGHAIED."' Curious Charge Brought Against Coal Operators by Former Employes. Suits hnvo been brought by twenty-two twenty-two residents of New York City, who claim that during tho coal strike they wero decoyed to tho mines In Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania by agents of tho Erlo railroad and of tho Pennsylvania Coal company. com-pany. Damages for $50,000 each, amounting to $1,100,000 In all, are sued for, and tho attorney for tho plalntlfTa consulted with nn attorney today nbout bringing tho matter beforo tho grand jury to bo sworn In next Monday. Tho plaintiffs claim that under pretense pre-tense of doing work for tho railroad nnd coal companies, they wore decoyed de-coyed to Hobokon, whero they wero locked In n car and carried, against tholr will, to tho coal regions of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and compelled to act as "strlko brcakors," under throats of being be-ing "turned over to tho fury of tho miners." Tho men say thoy finally succeeded In making their way back to tho city, but declare that, on their way homo, they had narrow escapes from being mobbed. |