New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-07
THE COAL MINERS STRIKE.
A COMPLETE AND EARLY FAILURE PRE-
DICTED.

DlCIED.
GENERAL BELIEF THAT THE STRIKE IN THE. ANTHRA-
CITE REGION WILL END WITHIN FORTNIGHT
THE RAIDERS ATTACK ON THE SHERIFF AT MA
HANOY CITY NOT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THE
STRIKE DID NOT END LONG AGO-DEsPERATE
PLANS Oh THE LEADRRs-THR PRESENCE OF
TROOPS STILL NEEDED.
tBY TELEGRAPH FROM A sTAFP CORRESPONDENT OF
THE TRIBUNE
POTTsvILLE, Penn, June Cit is the general
belief among coal operators and other wellinformed c
zens that the miners strike will end within fortnight at
furthes and that probably ii will not outast the pres
ent week The final surrender of the men VIII not be
Simultaneous but colliery after another Will ind
hands enough who ready to abandon the Union to
begin operations. This process Of disinegrating the
strike begun about week when three colleres III
the ncighbOrhOod Of Mahanoy City started with few
dozen who volunteered TO to work at the reduced
rate The leaders of the srkcrsshrcwd men, who have
carefully studied all the points In the desperate game
they are payngsaw at that unless they could stop
those colleres their position would be speedily under
mined With a celebrity and sccresy which would have
done credit able general they rallied force OF over
a thousand men. The gathered to-
gether nearly 20 miles away from the destined
point OF attack and received achievements at every
village along the line of march Their plan was to make
q raid upon all the working collieries drive off the
"blacklegs" and so intimidae them they would not
dare to resume work. The attack upon the Sherifs
posse In Mahanoy City not premedated The
strikers hoped to do their work so rapidly that the
officers OF the law would not have chance to interfere,
but Sheriff Werner was a match for them in the quick
ness OF his movements Alarmed at the consequence OF
the collision, the rioters have yentured no further
demonstrations. Their raid was disastrous for their
cause 1t brought out the military, and now the men
who want TO terminate the strkc the protection OF
the troops and feel in going to work As soon as
it is generally known that the Miners Association has
NOT Non
the working of coerics the new basis OF wages, the
strike will lose its only remaining cohesive forcethe
power OF terrorism-and will speedily tumble into
pieces Tomorrow the following colleres, including all
those that stopped by the raiders on Thursday will
he at work at the wages offered by the operators last
January:
The East Mahanoy and Elwood at Mahanoy City, be-
longing the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company five cOlieres at the same place operated by
the mines in the ShanOkin District west OF Excelsior No
the Calma. Lincoln, East Franklin and West End, IN
the lower coal field OF Pottsylle; and the Eagle
Hill, between here and Tamaqua
The whole OF the Schuylk region will thus be dotted
with working coleres To protect them the assistance
OF troops will be needed until the strike is definitely
abandoned. Seven companies Of the 9TH Regiment
PENNSYLVANIA National Guard and one Of the 9Th Reg-
ment are now on duty two companies are at Mahanoy
City, one at ShamOkin and five at Shenandoah. The sth
Regiment company Ia from Harrisburg and Will be
ordered home tomorrow all the others are from the
one from st. Clair one from Girardve, one from
Mount Carmel, and two from Shamokin. In
their ranks many miners who Obeyed
the call with much aaerity any Of their comrades.
The officer in command Is Gen sigfried OF this place,
who sensby with the fuss and feathers which
make most militia movements ridiculous. He dispenses
with staff, and conducts the campaign with as little pa
rade as possible. As the strike its inevitable end
the different natioDaes among the miners begin 10 dis
agree. The pugnacious Irshmen want TO keep up the
contest They organize the raids and create all the dis
turbances Most Of the leaders In the Association
Welsh and they also counsel holding out because they
fear that surrender will break the organization and
lose them their positions The majority OF the Welsh
are however ia favor OF going To work, and with them
are the Germans English, and Scotch miners. Probably
three fourths OF all the miners engaged In the strike
would have been willing 20 into the mines month
ago but the more violent Irishmen, Of the class that
cumulates no property and have nothing TO lose by
naming idle II they only keep alive, inundated the
whole body prevented any concert Of action among
the thrifty and sensible miners.
Tie loss to schuylkn County alone from the five
months suspension Of all mining operations Is estimated
at 80 of which sum the men lose 100000 in
WAGES II they should carry their point they could not
make up this by the difference between the od ana
proposed new wages In four years butt A. they VIII GER
tainly defeated the whole Othis vast sum VIII DC
total lose to them The last scheme OF tne raaips