Show MINERS SPRING SURPRISE v I IN COAL STRIKE INQUIRY Independent Operator Called Called- Upon to Testify Regarding Prices Received for Coal Coat and Wages Paid to Miners o OOOO e 0 0 0 0 0 0 E e 0 e e 0 e 0 e 0 e 0 0 0 U o 0 MINERS WILL CLOSE THIS WEEK o p c e 0 SCRANTON Pa Dec Dee 11 AttorneY Attorney Darrow today announced that e 0 eo o the miners exp expect ct to close their case this week weel and now gave g-avo notice for the e 0 j t other side to be he ready rel next week The companies companies' attorneys s said they desired dee de- de Q 0 e 0 sired a recess ss for a short time after the miners clo close e to complete the pre- pre 0 I Io o partition of or their case Chairman Gray said he hoped there would be no 0 0 o 0 Interruption of oC the sessions es lons Q f. f 1 SCRANTON Pa Dec Dee Lawyers ll 11 Lawyers for the miners sprung a surprise on the coal companIes companies at the opening opening- of ot today's 8 proceedings s by calling t the witness stand J J. J L. L Crawford Cranford one of oC the prominent Independent operator operators He Is president of the Peoples People's Coal comp company ny n which operates the Oxford colliery collier k at Scranton Mr Crawford who Crawford who has been cen en attending the sessions each ench day was surprised Ito to be called and he remarked hs he took the thc stand This Is a new turn of or affairs When hen did you OU ship coal coat last 7 asked Mr Darrow Yesterday What you are arc you getting getting- ltV getting for for- tor-Ii tor i Z 1 I J dont don't know exactly exact M II rori r. r rr tM t t. t 1 t tOIl Declines to TellI Tell I OIl can If It I want w ant f to Dont you want to too No o sir You are arc a party to this commission and went to New York to see the coal presidents Yes sir I IThen Then you jou ou refuse to give ghe this commissIon commission commis commis- sion slon that Information I dont don't think I am compelled to tell Railroad Profits Which Mich road do you sell to Delaware Lackawanna Western What do you ou get for Cor It 7 About 65 per cent of oC what the Lackawanna Lackawanna Lackawanna Lack- Lack awanna gets for Cor It At u this point attorneys for tor the operators operators opera- opera tors tois objected to the Inquiry proceeding an any further along the lines of ot what what a a- a company's comp profits are 1 Who Pays Increase I J I Mr Darrow said he called the called be witness s sto to show that the coal conI companies are able to pa pay the advance In wages wares n asked ked for fOl Wayne ane MacVeagh 1 In lit his cross- cross examination of or Mr Ur Mitchell he said Id Intimated that the Increase If IC granted l would ultimate ultimately he be placed on the bowed backs of the poor arid and he wanted to show that the companies are well able to to give Ive the Increase ask asked d for without putting It on on the poor Mr Ir Darrow DarrO then continued the examination examination examination examina examina- tion How Ho many tons do you OU ship in a a. a aday da day Nine In hundred to tons J JAnd i Whine hundred to 1000 J 1 And you dont don't know how how- much your you OU get for It 14 1 JC n. n hop L tS 1 1 W what Is It 11 1 i 1 About bout a atom to ton Strike Prices Pi ices On further examination Mr Crawford said fald that during the latter l part of oC the strike his colliery was WIlS In o operation and he got ot O a a. ton for tor his coal Chairman Gm Gray here stopped slopped th the ex examInation examination examination ex- ex saying that the exceptionally exceptional exceptional- ly Iy hl high h prices during the strike were not pertinent pe to the inquiry The miners called several witnesses who ho told of or conditions at the of oC the tine A. A Pardee company In the Hazelton Hazel Hazel- ton region rt One of ot the witnesses was wasa a bo boy who said he lost IOtt a leg leE In the mines received nothing for Cor Its loss but Instead d when he returned to work the company compan took off his wages his fathers father's debt |