The Evening critic., 1882-06-26
The Labor Troubles.

Twenty more police arrived at Camp
Mayer yesterday. The output at Eckhart yes
terday was 44S tons: shipped, 464 tons. An
other switch on the railload between Eckhart
and Cumberland has been tampered with.
In his sermon yesterday Rev. Henry
Ward Bcecher tndorsed the freight-handlers'
able, and said that the Knights Of Labor,
Workingmens Union, &C., were popular edu-
Gators, and the education of common people
was to be approved.
The striking freight-handlers and long
shoremen In Jersey City Saturday visited sew
eral Of the railroad yards and compelled tho
cessation of work. With the exception Of the
New Jersey Central depot, at piers 12 13 and
Id North River, Starin's transportation line,
and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Railroad . depot, at pier Is, North River, bust,
river front was almost at a standstill Saturday.
1t is estimated that the interruption to
business by the strike In Jersey City and New
Y6 Yor6 is Is causing "a loss Of from $l50,0O0 to
held special meeting Saturday and adopted
resolutions declaring the advance should be
granted the freighthandlers, but protesting
against the Wholesale and sweeping advance
on west-bound rates recently announced by
the trunk lines. 1t is announced from Phila-
delphia that owing to the labor troubles in
Jersey City the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany will transfer the freight shipments to
the old freight lines via South Amboy, and
onlcials say the demands of the strikers Will
not be granted. tits reported that the locomo-
tive engineers AT Jersey City nave sent to the
headquarters OF the Brotherhood in Cleveland,
Ohio, for Instructions.
special to the Baltimore Sun gives the
following account OF tho situation at Cumber-
land: The miners OF this section have been
congratulating themselves to-day on the stand
taken yesterday by the Clearfeld coal miners.
There was yesterday a difference of opinion
on the subject, but 1t is now claimed that since
the Clearneld men have demanded 65 cents
per ton the operators Of this region have lost
| the best argument they had for not giving the
miners here the old price for digging coal.
The men say an advance in the price OF btu
minous coal t5 predicted for July, and that II
It takes place, and the Clearneld miners get
the 65 cents per ton they demand, the com.
| panies here cannot but in the end
| give them the same price. All the ru-
| mors and newspaper reports that the
| men are going 10 work at an early day at
the terms offered by the companies are de-
| Of want here, though OF course many families
| do not live as well as they did when work was
going on. Said an old miner this afternoon
| 81 cannot say how long we Will hold out, but 1t
| Will be long enough to beat the companies.
| Every miner has good garden this year, and
turn for all the labor put on 1t. Potatoes and
other vegetables We will have In abundance,
and they Will be a great help. We do not In
tend 10 give in. Many Will go away and get
work, and those who remain can be supported
II they are not able TO live OF themselves. The
companies will find this bigger thing than
they thought" AS Daniel Krapf, one OF the
Eckhart bosses, drove through Frostburg last
night about sundown lively scene was pre-
sented. At the lower end Of the town shouts
OF "Swedei" "Blacklegl" greeted him, and
soon the sidewalks were lined with people
echoing the words as he passed along. 1t was
kept up until he drove out the other end OF
the town.