| Show ATIl It CO II It Is Shown Companion Tho Iho Output Jan of the tel tes testimony presented to the anthracite coal strike commission today todo was of ot n a cor corroborative nature the company which bus hns not yet et concluded Its lis numerous witnesses to prove that hat the Miners union Is responsible r for forthe forthe the alleged restriction of ot the production pro The Ihl Erf controls the Hillside Coal oa and Iron company and I the Pennsylvania hanla Coal oal During 1 the examination of oC E Button a 11 foreman tO employed by b the lat latter la t ter company the fart fact an IS adduced that otIe le 1 of ot re the number of ot oars to be he loaded dally by ono had been lieen In as far bark as III long before the United MineWorkers lIne Work ers of ot America entered the anthracite fI 1011 Thu unions responsibility io laibl ts with the Ihl enforcement of this rule rul and not nOl with wi th Its Inception Chairman Orny Omy of oC the commission lon who him been J n III at his home In Wil Wilmington WilI I Del for Cor several days was WUI at nt sessions The Tho majority of oC the witnesses wow mine who testified that the I union was detrimental to nt the collieries that mining Is s n comparatively healthy occupation and to of ot dur during ur ing the recent strike William n 1 contract minor fled at nt the afternoon session that he hl mid hill been prevented by hy the union from per a certain contract the driver refusing to 10 furnish him with a sufficient number of curs curl President lle Mitchell explained to the commission the tho union regarded with disfavor the practice of lf miners se securing curing certain work by proposal In Inthe n the first place he said the lowest bid bidder der secures the contract and he hc employs ns many hel helpers ers as n he ho deems necessary paying them smaller wages than they 1111 would otherwise e re ro receive ceh In many man cases 18 one contract miner r has employed ed from 1 U to 10 15 labor laborers ers en to 10 do the work while he would not Mt ns nR a A superintendent performing no pai t of the actual mining This the union considered unjust to the other men besides Increasing the liability of accidents ns as the contract miner could coull not pay proper attention to so IW many m ny different Jobs johll Mr Mitchell stated I I l that lip hI had hili been Informed that saloonkeepers sometimes secured these the never neer on or the mines but Jut leave leae the work to the labor laborers ers eu |
