| Show CALL OF COAL TORt the coal operators import an ignorant flags of foreigners to compete with american labor in the coal regions and then when riotous acts are committed by this bame importation the mine owners attempt to plead tant violence in support of their contention that the miners arc paid wages full high enough sir gompers when on the witness stand the early pail of this week was cross examined by james torrey counsel for ahe hudson company mr torrey asked the witness if he did not believe that members of the mine workers of america should be 21 years of aye and able to read and write before they were admitted to membership in the euion to this the witness replied yes ten years from now and when the companies stop bringing illiterate to this country they abc brought here by the companies and lie labor union protect and sec that the get their rights sir toracy asked him il he could annc that the coal companies were guilty 61 such thing athing a and the witness replied that he felt certain it was true he had seen copies of circulars which had been bent around in southern asking people to como into and stating that there was plenty of money to be earned in he air toracy asked him if steamship were not alic authors of those i circulars to which mr replied that he had seen ten twenty abid thirty luan huddled together in huts in the anthracite coal field and he noted that it was not long after they here that they were given employment in the mines lie offered to give to the alic name of a man who could give alic facts to the commission he did not caie to make his public ap one can condemn the deluded and deceived foreigners for their uprisings they much w lien they come to america they uio told of wonder rut opportunities them in alic t but no sooner arc they abc ly conveyed to the mines than they are made to realize that they arc to be ground the earth by the despotic sway of the baron 1 of the coal regions and their very poverty made to serve th of brcak ing don the barriers to unionism the only up building protecting operating in their be ohalf |
