The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-01-14
NOT A WHEEL TURNING.


Labor miners at a meeting here last
night decided to go on strike, and as
consequence there is but one Reading
colliery in this district working to-
day and that one is snort
handed. Riley & Co. have made q sat
isfactory agreement with their employees
and their collieries are IN operation.
This agreement, it is said, is a continual
ton Of the rate of wages IN force during
the past few months.
SHAMoKIN, Ps., Jan. 3.-Ihe miners
strike went into effect this morning at
all the Philadelphia & Reading Com
pany's collieries in this section with the
exception of North Franklin ] and 2. In
addition to those at the Reading
tompany's coIlieries, the miners
went out at the Pennsylvania, owned by
the Union Coal Company, the Enter
prise; owned by the Enterprise Coal
company, and the Garfield, owned by
the Garfield Coal Company. An
arrangement was entered into at
tie Nelson shaft, Excelsior, the
Hickory Ridge, the Hickory Swamp
and the Lancaster collieries whereby
the proprietors agree to pay the old rate
oi wages until the strike is settled. The
colieries now idle in Shamokin gave en-
ployment to $500 men.
READING, Pa, Jan 3.-The strike on
the Reading Railroad has proven sue
sess'ul and traffic has been entirely par
Ityzed. There couldn't be more genu-
Inc alarm throughout the great indus
arial regions of the SchuYlkill Valley
than there is to-day. The proprietors
0i large furnaces and iron works in this
section predict that if the mines are
slut down for two weeks the majority
Of the large establishments will be
Obliged to close, owing tosTite lack of a
supply Of coal Many of them have
been running for weeks short of coal and
most ol them have less than
"a weeks supply on hand. They
gave the railroad company orders
Tor coal over month ago but the of
.5s ais have not been able to fill them.
e t'se strike continues any length OF
lHle many smaller establishments in
-.Fs city and vicinity will be compelled
BE- close down. All the industrial
cities and towns in this section.
such as Reading, Birdsboro, Norris
town, Pottstown, Hamburg, and
smaller places receive their coal over
tile Reading Railroad and with the stop
nage Of work at the mines, trade will be
entirely paralyzed. The Pennsylvania
Railroad ships very little coal to these
sltaccs. 1t Is estimated that III this citv
alone rom 5000 to 5000 men are employ
ad ~ the iron works which are in urgent
8eeu OF COal. Not one has over a weeks
supply The time between sundoWn
and daylight is usually the busy time for
he shipment of coal over the Reading
road, Qhe average run of cars through
yhIs city during these hours is ,000 cars.
asst night but 200 were run down and
to-day only few short trains went down
the road
Reports received to-day show that of
the sIXty-eight collieries in the Schuyl-
kill region (forty of the largest of which
are controlled by the Reading Company
Out SIX are at work. The members of
the knights of Labor in this city while
refusing to strike, have promised the
Schuylklll miners financial support the
same as they are giving the men in the
Lehlgh region.
There Is a movement on foot among
ahe business men Of this end of the
Schuylkili Valley to hold meeting in
this city and bring such pressure to bear
upon President Corbin as to cause
him TO consent TO arbitration of
the miners strike at least. 1t
is argued that the immense
industries Of this section Of the state
cannot afford such a fearful paralysis Of
bt-luEH5 anu tIdtlts Inc SITlh6 Will not
only throw 10000 miners out of en-
ployment, but 10000 iron workers as
well.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 3.-The great
railroad strike is still on and it is char
actetized by the same determination of
both sides 10 stand firm that has
marked it from the beginning.
The company saws that it is over
whelmed with applications from labor
ers IN search of employment, and they
have enough men in reserve to fill any
number OF vacancies that can possibly
occur.
PTTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 3.-H. Sellers
Mckee, a prominent flint glass manu-
facturer, IN an interview to-day, states
that the number of firms which would
shut down their glass factories on ac-
count of the trouble with their employees
was forty-three, and the number Of
skilled workmen employed over 5000.
90 which should be added 1000 or 3 600
other workmen, making total of 10 900
on J. 900 men whom the shutdown would
throw out OF employment WOrkmen
other than those actually engaged in
making and shaping glass would proba-
by work until the stock in hand was ex-
aausted. 1t Is understood that the
difficulty is to be solved by committee
IRON the flint glass workers association.
whose decision is to be final for the
workman IN all factories.