Show i NONaUNION ME EN iJEARD Testify Before Anthracite Coal Strike Commission EAttl WITNESS A SUFFERER Four Vfcid of Attempt Made to BIw Uptiiieir Homes Another WI ipt ns Bo Told of How Ho Was Ord ored to Leave a Tempt Tem-pt ranco Society Jjcranton Pa Dec 19 Nonunion men some of th fir J relatIves and others to thc number cu thlrty appeared before be-fore t be nnihracite c oal strike commission commis-sion Uiday and told their stOries of alleged al-leged Boycotts intl mldatlop and violence vio-lence in various forms during the strike Each witness called I wits a sutrerer In one form or another lat the hands they alleged cf union ir j n Four wHncsscs S J attempts were made to bkw UP theFcj houses one house was badly damaged J I many of the witnesses wit-nesses were threatened with bodily harm sever tl were beaten ono was shot In the A s anti every one stoned boycotted or banged In effigy One school teacher tcstllled having iort his poslllo i because his father did not strike OIK man 1 wa asked to rc filgii from a Ct tholld temperance society so-ciety and anotl er witness was expelled ex-pelled from a loca 1 loclsC of the Ancient Order of Hibernia Ra I after 1 membership member-ship of twentysi to twcntyelpht years because they ycre classed as unfair un-fair V WEPT ON SAND Joseph 31 Dugan t eI man who was requested to give up h V membcrKhlp In the temperance society r remained at work doing repair work ttntl acting usa us-a watchman He wept t while on the witness stand as ho told i > t how he was oriJered to leave after m nn > years of pleasant social relations w It hits members mem-bers He was very active In tc society so-ciety and drilled many of those who I have Kown to manhood In the military mili-tary branch of the society 1 l > said he he had lIen stoned and olhcrU 3C badly bad-ly treated And added that a god d clubbing club-bing would not have hurt half as much as the action of the society in t hrow Ing him out of the organization The boys he had dried In the so = Iety stoned him on the highway and hen he displayed his revolver they nH dropped flat on the road I x QUESTIONED BY MINERS At1 TOKNBY C S Darrow for the miners asked the witness if 1 he thought the union taught them that to which the wi ti ness replied that he as captain ot thu military company of the society hat taught the boyo the military tactics which they resorted to when he flourished flour-ished his revolver JAMES MITCHELLS STORY James Mitchell was the man who was expelled from the Hibernian society so-ciety He said he worked during the strike a I repair man and did not consider It unfair because ho did not mine any coal He had been a member mem-ber of the society twentysix to t went wen-t clsht years and at a meeting one night during the strike the question of his unfairness came up and the members mem-bers present unanimously voted to expel ex-pel him r had been paying dues all these years and was in good standing and further added that he was now glad he was out of it HANGED IN EFFIGY l other witnesses testified to having been hanged In effigy one or more times that grcvsers butchers milkmen and Icemen reiVised to serve them because be-cause they wore afraid their business would be boyccittcd and that they were severely bonten and socially os tracised The commission will meet at r oclock tomorrow morning and will adjourn at 1115 oclock for the holidays Most of the commissioners will Immediately leave for their honrvei |