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Show RESPONSIBILITY FOR i. ACCIDENTS IN MINES PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 15. Chair man Gray of the anthracite commission, who has been absent from the hearings of the commission for about a week, on account of illness, was present at today's to-day's session. Before calling witnesses, counsel for the Erie company, which controls the Hillside Coal and Iron company and the Pennsylvania Coal company. Introduced as evidence certain cer-tain extracts from reports of State Mine t Inspectors tending to show , that most mine accidents are due to the negligence of the workmen themselves. H. C. MacMlllan of West Plttston. assistant as-sistant superintendent of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Coal company, testified that the relations between the company and the men prior to the strike of 1900 were always al-ways pleasant. He also said that the' men do not mine all the coal they are capable of mining. |