Frequently the population is so congested that whole
families are crowded into one room; eight persons in one
small room was reported during the year.

And here is what this same clergyman has to say about the bosses whom
the Rockefellers employ:

The camp superintendents as a whole impressed me as most
uncouth, ignorant, immoral, and in many instances, the most
brutal set of men that I have ever met. Blasphemous bullies.

Sometimes the miner grows tired of being robbed of his weights, and
applies for the protection which the law of the state allows him. What
happens then?

"When a man asked for a checkweighman, in the language of
the super he was getting too smart." "And he got what?" "He
got it in the neck, generally."

And when these wage-slaves, goaded beyond endurance, went on strike,
in the words of the Commission's report:

Five strikers, one boy, and thirteen women and children in
the strikers' tent colony were shot to death by militiamen
and guards employed by the coal companies, or suffocated and
burned to death when these militiamen and guards set fire to
the tents in which they made their homes.

And now, what is the position of education in such camps? The Rev.
James McDonald, a Methodist preacher, testified that the school