Show ATROCIOUS OPPRESSION I I The leitimony taken ycnlcrday by the Coal Commission was of the most harrowing har-rowing nature An old man with hlR aged wife and her c centenarianmother evicted fioni their homes the ivlfe dead and it not known whether the gcd mother was alive or not No wonder won-der Judge CJnxy remarked lp the w1 ncfcH That IB all I Mr i Cal I and thats e enough Another story wm thai of a widow whose husband hud been killed in a 1 mine the company never offered lo pay her anything for his loss she hcruhbed and worked and sent her boys to school j when one svas old enough lo help she sent him to the mine his wages were withheld f lo apply ap-ply on a i claim for rent that was then MIx years due but had never been presented pre-sented her cond boys wages were nit > held back on the same account her I own earnings In scrubbing the com panys olllccs were not paid but also went on the real and It took them nil I thirteen yen is to make up the debt As a story of hardhearted grinding avarice we have never read the equal of Hint I think of It A widow whose husband had bcne killed In the com panys mine was held In virtual slavery sla-very for thirteen years with her two boy to pny a debt that had been charged upagainst her by the company com-pany for rent It Is I the most vlllaln OUf atrocity thil has darkened the annals an-nals of this country for years It was tuircly u friend who advised the representatives repre-sentatives of the coal companies to set ilo without bringing out the evidence In Use Wcst t ouch an ouvfll would he mohheJ I and they would richly deserve to be |