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Show MINER WORKED ELEVEN YEARS- And Was Paid In Store Orders Never Handled a Cent of Money. At Scranton, Pa., Tuesday night Stephen McDonald, aThroop miner, at a public meeting called to present thehr side of the case in the present strike in the Anthracite coal regions, made the-following the-following astounding statement. The-voiee The-voiee of the young man rang with, earnestness, his eye was fearless and flashed as he told it : "Men, you all know me around here. You know the truth of what I say. I repeat it to you to remind you of our common lot of misery and suffering which has made us combine to cry out for a better order of things. "When I was six years and four months old I went to work in the breakers of the Pancoast Coal company. com-pany. I have worked nineteen years, every day that I could get. I have-never 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, nnd 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 the hamlet 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 Pan-coast Coal company, and during those ' eleven years I swear here before the Omnipotent I never handled one cent of earnings in money. "I also have due bills of other members mem-bers of our family to show tbey handled no money either in all that period." |