Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-03
TROUBLES OF THE TOILERS.
MINERS JOIN THE RAILRoADERS IN
 THEIR DEMANDS.

The Men of the Mines Will Not Submit
 to the Proposed Per Cent. Reduc-
 tion. and . stin Further Extension of
 the Strike is Imminent.
 SHAAoKIN, Pa, Jan. 3-A meeting of Knights of Labor and railroaders was held yesterday, and as a result a general strike of miners and railroaders was made this morn ing throughout the anthracite region, ex- cept in the Wyoming valley. The miners strongly condemned the course of the rall- road company and the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers, and mado an appeal to men who contemplate coming into the region to seek work to remain away until the strike is settled. They also advised ho- tel and boarding house keepers not to enter tain ''scabs, n and declared their intention to fight 10 a finish. The entire coal region was represented at the meeting. The sentiment of the meeting was unanimously in favor of the lockout. Everything is quiet Business
 is greatly depressed. The miners declare
 they can stand out six months
 READING, Jan. 8. The strike of the train
 men is pronounced dismal failure, and
 if anything is needed to defeat and rout
 the Knights of Labor executive com
 mittee in the coal regions it is the stop
 page of the mines, for if there is no coal
 mined there will be absolutely nothing for
 trainmen to do. The company believes that
 inasmuch as it easily secured 800 new
 men for the trains, it can easily hire enough
 miners 10 take out sufficient coal to supply
 the manufacturers who are most in need of
 fuel.
 Bernard Sharkey, of Port Richmond, went
 up the road last night He says matters are
 not rosy as the officials would make it
 appear, and that the company will find it
 exceedingly difficult to move the trains He
 says that the new engineers burned out at
 least fifteen locomotives, entailing n heavy
 loss on the company.
 When the miners claimed a continuance
 of the Ter cent advance they had some public sympathy, but in the new issue, that they are opposed to mining coal because it will be handled by non-union men, they have none at all
 The extension of the strike to the miners in the interior towns has had the effect of causing a suspension of coal traffic on the
 road, but the railroad officials claim that they can have not only the road, but the mines fully manned in time to prevent coal famine.
 The Eagle yesterday published an inter- view with Anthony Lalley, president of
 the Miners and Laborers' Amalgamated association, who has worked in the mines hoit1 years A<dilcy ss1lo ut a strike in. the coal regions as unwiss No good results, he thinks, ever come from strikes, and he is opposed to them. He favors arbitration. He says will oppose any thing rash, and thinks there are enough cool headed miners in the district to prevent a
 strike. In his opinion if the company
 shows a disposition to arbitrate the men will resume work. He charges President Corbin with trying to destroy the Knights of Labor, out does not think he will succeed. He be- | lieves that the various coal companies have combined and made war to crush out the l life from labor organizations, and declares | that the members will meet it, but with peaceable means.
 PoTTsvILLE, Pa, Jan. 3-A meeting em- | bracing 1,5O0 representative of the miners of I this region was held at Mount Carmel yes | terday. It was resolved unanimously to strike unless the demand for the continuance | of the s per cent. advance is conceded, and | even in this event to mine no coal to be | handled by "scabn railroad employees A meeting of representatives of Districts I2 and | IA, Knights of Labor, was held here yesterday | to confer with Chairman Lee and other leaders, and conclude upon a scheme of sug- | gestions to the meeting of the joint commit | tee of the Knights of Labor and Miners | Amalgamated association. The district meeting indorsed the action of the Mount | Carmel meeting, ani passed a resolution to | the same effect Chairman Lee expresses | entire confidence that the joint committee will decree a general miners strike