The New York herald., 1877-08-28
IHE LABOR PROBLEM.
Unsettled Condition of the Operatives in
the Coal Region.
STRIKES REPORTED ELSEWHERE.
Prospects of Better Times in the Middle
Coal Fields.
PENNSYLVANIA COAL COMPANY.


THE EMPLOYEES RESOLVE TO srRIxE-nEsULr
OF THEIR BRANCH MEETINos-THE MEI-
CHANTS MUTUAL LEAGUE.
~ TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
LAcKAwAssA AND BLooMsBuRa JuScrIoS, Pal
August ~, 1877.
The majority Of tho readers OF the HERALD to-mor
row will marvel At facts herewith delivered. and
thousands or the laborlng element in tho
Lackawanna, Wyoming. Lehigh and Schuylkill
regions will rejoice. yet there are many sorrowng
hearts TO- night In this section On tho developments
II ths oay This was The set for "a general meet
Ing OF the Pennsylvania Coal Company men 10 receive
ihe OF the management for ten cents per ton
advance, and to decide what to take TIE
letter Arst made public Saturday, and
The Intervening days have been most industriously
employed BY tho TWO parties, those anxious 10 resume
and those determined that strike shall take place.
unless their demands are complied with. The
meeting was fully attended, upward of three
thousand Of the Pennsylvania Company
beug present aud several hundred ag'tators from
rounding striking coIileres, also large delegation
Of strlking from the Lackawanna, Wilkes
barre Lcbigh aud Schuyikill region The men from
the Schuylkill region could DO easily distinguished.
The masses could not easily be handled as one body,
ana upon resolution they separated into branches.
Every work represented. There seventeen
broad bra ncbes OF he OF the same
Grove and tho res ut was decision by ten branches
tostrse against seven 10 resume. Patrick Sweeney,
a. e' S %
anxious TO resume, bot their advice was rejected upon
several OCCASIONS.
she speakers detailing the wrongs that labor submitted
to while capital revelled IN LUXURY that the writer
hereof believed an outbreak OF revenge imminent;
Daid freshman Elf Lhe boys begin It there will
DO wh ole limb left IN tho grove excepting those
bs attributed to a combination Of circumstances well
calculated TO arouse the sIumberng fires IN the
s0Tkus%sn' .11 breasts They complain S
isg on powder, also some twenty cents per gallon
miner OF several dollars month-enough 10 equal
Six or seven dollars More than this, the at
drive the small companies from the market WHO have
compromised with their men by raising the price OF
souness 's
Ires @ Of compuIs,on upon the part Of
as rshsoas not ou
workingmen, but the operators also ncensed, and
the press Of the valley notably the Wlkesbsrre Rec
exoessveSrrse in tolls. The small operators on
the Lackawanna and Bloomsbury division Of
Railroad opposed by a different dilemma Tho
company have not raised tolls, but still moro enec-
m,. cars 10 The proGuoors ia several
hundred miners ana aborers are idle and capital is
dormant.
CAUSE TROUBLES.
To intimate friend John Bri sbln, ex president
and now chief attorney for the Delaware LacKawarna
and Western Railroad Company, IN conversing about
tho difficulties in the mining region, remarked
that the present troubles grew out Of
policy that IN it's inception was guaranteed,
but now brought iofth It's yearly fruits The
companies had put too many Een to work. and now
rather than discourage the surplus the Inanagcments
put the hall time and retained tho iu
plcmenl My policy would be to reduce the force TO
such number to enable every man to make iuii
time Then there would not be the complaint we hear
how."
ANOTHER coMBSATON AGAINST STRIKES.
On Saturday night u number ot the most prominent
business men OF the city, mostly OF members
OF The largest grocery houses OF the city
resolved to refuse credit TO every man out OF employ
whose AGILITY TO pay upon presentation OF bill
Questioned The organization is something like
league ter mutual protection among the grocery ana
provision urms. A prominent member OF u grocery
lrm OF New York remarked day, in the presence of
he HERALD reporter. that he would give credit
my merchant who did not strictly adhere TO the cash
principle under the presenI circumstances. Tonight
IN adjourned meeting Of tho merchants
raed. The attendance larger than at the
previous session. The spirit man uested fully
predicsd IN tho HERALD dispatches several days ago
The presence To-day Of q number Of city wholesale
dealers no have in unmisakeable language asserted
their intention Withdraw further mediation TO
al reta dealers doing credit business, has produced
It's intended effect.