The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-04
ALARM AMONG MANUFACTURERS.
A SHORT sTOPPAGE OF COAL WILL
CLOSE MANY.
Deerssse In the SuDply-Only ons-Reurth
tho Number Of Cars Running.
The ssuuafi0o.

READING, Pa, January 3.-There is
great alarm among the manufacturers
dependent upon the Reading Road for
fuel. Not many Of them carry large
stocks Of coal ahead, and q two weeks
stoprage Of mining would close up the
majority Of them. The suspensions
would begin within . week. The aver
age run Of coal through this city (which
is almost entirely at night is 1000 cars
per night, but last light only 900 passed
down and only 400 to-day.
ONLY SIX CoLLIERIEs WORKING.
Out of 1853 large colleries in the
Schuylkill region only six are at work.
1t is calculated that if the miners strike
becomes complete il, the section tribu-
tary to the Reading Road $4,000 miners
and 30 900 factory laborers will be out
Of work. Some few individual mine
owners have made terms with their men
by agreeing to pay current wages pend
ing the strike and abide by its result
when it ends. Five such collisries are
dition to the six exceptions noted above.
ONE coLLIERY WORKING.
ASHLAND, Pa, January 3.-The
knight Of Labor Miners at a meeting
here last night decided to go on a strike,
and as a consequence there is but one
Reading colliery in this district working
to-day, and that ono 10 short-handed.
Riley & Co. have made satisfactory
agreement with their employees, and
their collieries are in operation. This
agreement, it is said, is . continuance Of
the rate of wages in force during the
past few months.
sTEREOTYPED STATEMENTS.
PHILADELPHIA, January 3.-Ths great
railroad strike is still on, and it is char
acterizsd by the same discrimination Of
both sides to stand firm that has marked
it from the beginning. At the various
depots and stations in this city there is
the stereotyped statement that the busi-
ness of the road il proceeding as
smoothly a. could be wished, and this
statement is as uniformly contradicted
by the strikers, who state that the Read
ing Company do not make public the
actual number of men ON strike and that
they are crippled in all departments for
lack of proper workmen to handle the
traffic of the road. So far as discernable
to nom professional observers the work
Of receiving and delivering freight is
prospering as usual at all the depots and
wharves in the city. The railroad Off
cials say the applications outnumber the
vx,ta tvw-0 10. h.
mond everything remains with little or
no change.
CAUSE OF THE STRIKE.
At the Knights headquarters in this
place there is constant and earnest effort
to make clear the cause of the strike,
which they allege has nothing to do with
the discharged crews who refused to
handle the Taylor Bros stuff, but is
wholly based on the discrimination in
dulged in by the company against the
Knights of Labor, which has resulted in
the discharge of hundreds of men simply
because they were prominent in the
order.
SMALL STOCK OF COAL
Although the stock Of coal on hand in
the Reading Company's Port Richmond
yards is almost exhausted, the agents of
the company are firm in their expression
of belief that there is no danger Of a coal
famine. The yards at that shipping point
| contain but 81, 500 tons Of all kinds of
coal, the largest amounts being egg and
chestnut. There is no broken or stope
on hand.