I want to call your attention and the attention of this House to a picture nearer home. Mr. Morrison. secretary of the Federation of Labor. when he was before our committee the other day in support of this bill. referring to the native Americans and old immigrants that once worked in the mines and other industries of a district in Pennsylvania. gave us this picture: I was through that district a number of years ago. when the strike was on and the fight was made. and I saw conditions there that I wish the members of the committee could have seen. The strike was on for many months. The coal barons. men on horseback. to my way of viewing it. incited trouble by riding through the men who were marching. clubbing them. shooting in the air. and doing other things that would cause the strikers to either say or do something that would bring them within the pale of the law.
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