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Show i I WORKED FOR ELEVEN YEARS ; S AND NEVER HANDLED ONE f CENT OF KIS EARNINGS t t 0 V A 0 i 0 Scranton, Fa.. Sept. 25. "Men, you all know me around a $ here. You know the truth of what I say. I repeat it to you A Y to remind you of our common lot of misery and suffering' $ which has made us combine to cry out for a better order of 6 a tilings. ' y A "When I was 6 years and 4 months old I went to work in v a the breakers of the Fancoast Coal company. I have worked 0 nineteen years, every day that I could get. I have never been v Son an excursion in my life. I have never been to a theater but twice in my life. I Jiave not drunk a drop of beer or liquor 0 for five rears, and for two years I have not smoked. I have V practiced the closest economy in food. But I have never been J $ able to accumulate $100 in my life. a a "Men, I have lived in the hamlet of Throop all my life. 3 You and I know this has always been a company store town. A 4 We know in our hearts what that means, whatever the oper- 0 ators mav saw . 0 "Eleven 'years I worked for the Fancoast Coal company, t 1 0 and during those eleven years I swear here before the Omnipo- 0 " tent I never handled one cent of earnings in money. . tf 2 "I also have due bills of -other members of our family to Y H t show thev handled no money either in all that period." a Y This' is the astounding story told today before a vast au- A dience bv Stephen McDonald, a" Throop miner, but it was de- a " $ clared to' be one of almost ordinary occurrence. The voice of 0 the young man rang with earnestness, his eye was fearless and 6 flashed as he told it r A . |