Show STRIKERS Mil A i HOME t Woman Tells Strike Commission Commis-sion of Her Persecution HUSBAND is NONUNION MAN Could Not Come Home for Fear or Bodily Harm Sho Was Prevented From Moving and Her Home and Contents Were Destroyed by Fire Scranton Pa Dee 20The anthracite anthra-cite coal strike commission held Its last session of the year today and adjourned ad-journed to meet In Philadelphia on Tuesday January Gth The attorneys for the nonunion men continued calling witnesses fiom Lack nwanna and Lucrnc counties for I the purpose of proving that violence In tlpnlOatlon and boycotts were resorted to in order to prevent the nonunion men from continuing work Everett Warren counsel l for the Lchlgh Valley Coal company filet the wage statements state-ments of the company COMPELLED TO BOYCOTT John IL Otto the first witness called said all the merchants In Archbald Pa were compelled to boycott him because he worked In the mines The second witness was a boy who was forced to leave the store he was employed em-ployed in on account of his father be I inc a lionunion man and the next witnc1 < e ° tiled that strikers tried to hcye forced out of the volunteer lire ei > any to which he belonged because be-cause he trontluucd at work as a mine engineer dining the strike I EIt TIOMIS BURNED Mrs Rhoda Snyuer of Wllkesbarre with a baby in her arms took the stand and with tears runnIng down her face told of the burning of her homo by strikers Her husband was In the mines and could not come horn because he feared bodily harm She and her children were so abused that they moved to another part of the city Hal reception In the new home was hostile and she decided to move to her motherinlaws home Strikers prevented pre-vented her moving and the same night the house and all its contents were burned Hot goods were not Insured Her fatherinlaw and motherinlaw corroborated her testimony DENY DUGAIsS STORY President P J Mulheln ot the Father Whftley Temperance society of Providence Provi-dence near Scranlon and thetreasurer of the society were called by the miners In rebuttal of testimony given yesterday yester-day by Joseph P Ducun who said he tad been expelled from the society because be-cause he was ar unfair workman Two officers of the society tcstfflod that he was expelled because he had violated the total abstinence pledge James D Lewis a t mine foreman who tfatiflod yesterday that he had been held up by a crowd neat Ollphant was called In rebuttal by the miners and a photograph showing him with a large crowd around posing for a picture pic-ture was placed in evidence MINER AND FAMILY PERSECUTED PERSE-CUTED James Dolan told a story of persecution perse-cution because he worked during the I 3trlke His children were beaten and Insulted on the streets Before adjourning for the holidays Chairman Gray requested all persons concerned to make every effort to band In the wage statements before the recess re-cess HO that members of tho commission commis-sion could studi them |