Show MINER WORKED ELEVEN YEARS and was TI paid in store stor orders nover nerr handled a cent of bloney at scranton pa tuesday night stephen Dooald mider at a public meeting ine eting called to present their side bide of the case casa in the present strike in the anthracite coal legions made the llie following astounding statement the voice of the tha young man rang with earnestness liis his eye A at ak fearless fe arles and cashed as he told it 1 I men you all know we me around here you know the truth of what I 1 say ay I 1 repeal it to you to remind you of our common lot of misery and suffer lug which aich bat ua made us u coul combine bint to try cry out for a better belter order of things when I 1 was waa six yer years and four months month old I 1 went treat to work in the bhea er of the pancoast coal company I 1 have hare worked nineteen years every day that I 1 could get g et I 1 liaro have never been on at an excursion in my ay life I 1 have hara never been to a theater but twice io in my life I 1 have hafe not drank a drop of beer or liquor for five years and for two years I 1 have hare oot cot smoked I 1 have practiced the economy in food but I 1 have bare never been able to Ic accumulate cumulate aloo io in my ufa life mn mea I 1 have hate lived in the hamlet of throop all toy rny life lit you and I 1 linoir know this hai ban always been a company store tor town wo W know in our hearts heart what that means mean wha taTer ill operator may tay say eleven years yean I 1 worked for the pancoast cost coal company and during those eleven years year I 1 war owner here bore betor before the th omnipotent I 1 never handled one on cent of earnings in money 1 I also alo have hate duo due bills bill of other members of our family to they handled no BO mony money si lahr therin in all that period |