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Show MINER WORKED ELEVEN YEARS And Was Paid la Store Orders Never Handled a Cent of Money. At Scranton, Pa., Tuesday night Stephen McDonald, a Throop miner, at a public meeting called to present their side of the ease' in the present strike in the Anthracite coal regions, made the following astounding statement. . The voice of the young man rang with earnestness, his eye was fearless and Cashed as he told it : "Men, you all know me aronnd here. You know the truth of what I say. I repeat it to you to remind yon of our common lot of misery and suffering which has made us combine to cry ont for a better order of things. "When I was six years and four months old I went to work ia the breakers of the Pancoast Coal company. com-pany. I have worked nineteen years, every day that I could get. I have never been on an excursion in my life. I have never been to a theater but twice in my life. I have not drank a drop of beer or liquor for five years, and for two years I have not smoked. I have practiced the closest economy in food. But I have never been able to accumulate 8100 in my life. "Men, I have lived in tbc bamlet of Throop all my life. You and I know this has always been a company store town. We know in our hearts what that means, whatever the operators may say. "Eleven years I worked for the Pan- coast Coal company, and during those eleven years I swear here before tbc Omnipotent I never handled one cent of earnings in money. VI also have duo bills of other members mem-bers of our family to show they handled to money either in all that period." |
