Show TALES OF EVICTION i I Treatment of Psflinersby the llflarkle Company CHILDREN MADE TOSLAVE Mother ami Two Boys Struggle for Years to Pay the Marklos tIme Back Rent and Coal Bill She Owed Them the Children Never Receiving Receiv-ing a Cent for Their Work Forced Removal From Her Home Results in the Death of the Wife of a Miner i 1 Scranton Pa Dec D Tales of eviction evic-tion from houses owned by G B Murkl Co the narration of the death of a wife as aresult of an enforced removal re-moval rota her hmnc and the story of a mother whose husband was killed In the Marklo mines and of how she and her two boys struggled for years to pay the Darkles the hack rent and coal bill she owed them were the principal features of todays sepqions of the coal strike commission The testimony tes-timony as presented by some ot the witnesses whose lives arc given up to the coal mining Industry was at times pathetic and surprising to the commissioners commis-sioners who listened to it with undl Ided attention ANDREW HANNTKS STORY Andrew Ilannik a Hungarian told how the Markles evicted him He was followed by Henry Cole another Marklo miner who told how his family Including Includ-ing xhis motherinlaw who was TOO years old were set out on the road with their household goods He gave a graphic description of how he was injured In-jured many times In the mines He said one of his legflovas no better than a wooden one he had only one eye Ma hands had been crushed ribs broken and skull fractured The company gave him nothing until after tlic employees em-ployees took up a collection for him then he was given JEO after being on the Injured list for two years The company took out of the collection the nnt he oed In answer to other questions he aid he was one of the thirteen evicted by the Markle company com-pany The only rent he owed was for the months during the Strike The company gave no reason for evicting him THROWN FROM THEIR HOMES Then followed the most pathetic story yet told the commission Tfic olil miner Mr CoIl decrepit from many Injuries told under examination of how tho eviction was carried on Tho wife was pick and her Qld 100yearold mother was blind and unable to walk The day on whlrh they were thrown out was rainy He took them as best he could to Hnzelton seven miles away and placed them In a cold damp empty house This was last month when the atmosphere on the Hayelton mountain was quite cold His wife became be-came worse Medical aid was kindly furnished free by a Hazel ton doctor hut It did not help her much We were greatly worried becnuso of our having been turned out of the house and one nlgltt he said between sobs she died She died said Judge Gray who was pacing to and fro across the room as he quickly turned when he heard the mans last words Yes sir she died and I burled her yesterday ALL IN ROOM AFFECTED All the commissioners and many of those in the courtioom were much affected af-fected by I the old minors story The witness went on to say that he did not know whether the centenarian vntalUe today or not JJhc ivan In a bad condition con-dition owIng to he1 daughters death when he Rft the I latc iat l nlcht No one cured to iTtisnexntiilnu n iil Jutico Gray wald That Is all Mr Coil and thats enough EXACTED POUND OF FLESH Mis Kate Bum of Jed do was then culled to the atnil nnd lold a story of how the and lir r Iwo hoys v orkd thirteen years to pay J off an auunm In led house rent and coal bill dm to ine Markle cuinpuiy She WHS cxnin I Miccl by Lawyer Danou and In I answer an-swer to hia qmvlou said her husband ws an engineer in tho t IOnrUc i inlnen Tho husband wir Klkd under ground leaving her with four children the t oldest of horn was a boy of S years The company never offejvd her a pettily but the employees gave her about SlSO to defray the funeral expon eo After her l husband hiu been killed site moved fiom her fourroom house Into one containing only two looms one room above the oilor and for tIny next nix years she struggled as best one could to get along1 She took In washing scrubbed for the neighbors and once In a while site was given the cleaning of the offices of the Markle company HELD UP BOYS WAGES During these six years she said she kept her children at school and when tIme eldest child was 11 years old she scut him to the mines to help earn the dally bread At the end of the Hist month the hatk < brought home his wage statement showing1 that the mother oed 3Ui > for mirk rent The boyS wages for tile month had been taken oli the bill and he came home empty him mmdcd Sue submitted to this t and In the course ot time her next boy was old enough to help earn a living and hi too was sent to the colliery Like the older brother tho fennel boy recolvi no pay his earnings being deducted for rent Time tcnrj nf LIme mother on the witnessstand were by this time welling ui ami when she added that the money she earned by cleaning the Marklo of llcvu was never given her but was kept by the company for rent the com mteIoncro looked atone another In surprise sur-prise e1low HOW FAMILY WAS KEPT She aald It took the throe of hem thirteen years to make up the debt the mothers earnings from neighbor being lie principal contribution toward the malntennnce oC the family The debt vs cleared last August During the six ycrts from thu time her lim hsu1 wus killed until the time when the I ihat boy iimt to work the company com-pany never aaked hr for rent i Tills concluded the mineworkers1 cite against U < II Markio Co except ex-cept that Mr Darrow read and had jlacol upon tin n ords oC tho com tiijiiomi John Markles slatepient fo Prenident Roosevelt at the lime of the now famous conference hi tie temporary tempo-rary White liouso |