The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-04-22
THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1875.

The Lackawanna Mines, or the Hyde Park
miners as they are commonly called, display
4 more than ordinary amount of wisdom in
,heir action or Frdaya week, invoting 81 % for
and 1872 against strike This was wise in
itself bat the manner of bringing about the
grand result was best and wisest of all. Ever
since the strikes in the Lehigh and Schuyl-
XIII regions were inaugurated an effort has
been made to make the turnout general
throughout the whole anthracite region. In
no one portion Of that region had the men,
ly the practice Of due economy, prepared
themselves to lie idle, and least of all were
the I4ackawanna men prepared to do So
What with short time for months and sus-
pension for repairs there were but few shots
laid by in the locker, and it being notorious
that the debts contracted during the long
strike had not been cancclled-indeed, many
of them, not even began to be paid, credit
as well as stamps were necessary to be
obtained before they could even hope to at
tain even a shadow Of success. And yet,
with this state Of affairs patent to everybody,
the most earnest system of persuasion was
employed to induce them to make fools
of themselves, and to bring grim want and
untold suffering upon themselves, their fami-
lies and the community, merely that the
Schuylkill men, who had once before deceived
them, might have better show in their
fight with the Reading Railroad Company
Meetings, without number, were held on
the line ranging from Carbondale to the Sus-
quehanna, and species ofargument and taunt
were used d-demagogues made rapid fittings
hither and yon, and made rapid speeches
with equal celcrity and gusto-but the men
of Hyde Park were neither to be cajoed and
scared. Lodges ofthe INA. were formed.
and then the screws of the order were turned
to accomplish the one grand purpose, but the
letter Of the bond with which they were in
duced to bind themselves was insisted on,
and whenever the proposition to suspend or
20 out, it was either postponed or given the
go-by by a negative vote. These votes, how
ever, were never acknowledged to DC final
ity, and the end was merely put off without
day But at length the day arrived when
the pressure Of the demagogues became un-
bearable and a meeting was called for Thurs
nghta week, when Siney, and 0 Halloran and
Wech-who live on their salaries as Presi-
dents, while the men work to maintain them
in idleness or mischief making, which iseven
worse than ideness,-hovered around and in
the meetings, making their specous speeches,
and retailing their senseless arguments and
impracticable plans in hope fat least draw
ing the men who felt the necessity of working
while it was to be had, and wanted to work
into the trap which had been so cunningly
set for them. But failure again met their
insidious attempts, and the meeting resolved
that a vote should be taken, but that the
voting should be done in the mines on the
next day, aud that by the next evening the
return Of the voting should be made at the
place of meeting. This resolve was complied
with, and as a result we have 1881 men, ex-
dressing their free and unshackled opinion
1,jl3 Of whom voted 10 strike and 3l9
strike, or majority Of ! 1893 in favor of rea-
son and common sense.
This result, though not altogether unexpec-
ted, was still better than hoped for and the
feeling Of the community, and of the miners
themselves and their families cannot better be
5ndezed than by the heartfelt exclamation OF
1he honest Irish woman-the wife Of miner
--"Who had experienced theeviis Of strikers
Thank God, the men showed since that
time, oney how" The announcement of the
result was like the lifting a load from the
public shoulders. La Scranton, We are told
ly reliable men, business at once began to
revive, all over the country, as we learn from
our exchanges the news was received with
joy; and, it is even said that the effect of
this action will be the speedy renewal of work
throughout the entire anthracite region, as
we ardently hope it may.