Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-11
READINGS COAL BUSINESS !
ONLY 15o CAR LOADS OF COAL
 FOR A DAYS WORK.
The Contest Between the Miners and sTheir Employers Causing Increased Alarm to Business Interests-No Meet ing of the Executive Board.

HEADING, Pa, Jan. 11-Every colliery was idle yesterday, and there were not men enough left to run the machinery, even the engineers having deserted their posts
 The Reading officials are badly frightened at the magnitude of the strike, which they say is the most complete in the history of tue anthracite regions. The striking com mittees of both the railroaders and miners held large meetings in Pottsville and de clared that unless Mr. Corbin comes to terms the struggle promises to be one of the most bitter in the history of strikes.
 The Reading company did not handle over 150 cars of coal yesterday. At Shamokin the miners employed at the Enterprise colliery refused to accept the 8 per cent. advance The firm then offered to ship via the Penn- sylvania railroad, and not allow it's cars to pass over the Reading railroad. The men accepted these terms and went to work At Big Mine run, the large col,iery owned by the Taylor estate, the men refused to work because they would not mine coal to be ham, dled by "scab' railroaders on the Reading railroad. The men at the Rally Run and William Penn collieries, at Shenandoah, also refused to work for the same reasons.
 It was learned last evening that the Read ing railroad officials are preparing a black list of discharged employees, which will be sent to the superintendents of railroads all over the country.
 The coal at the yards of local dealers all over eastern Pennsylvania is getting scarcer daily, and the prices have jumped from 75 cents to S1.50 per ton within the past day or two. The strikers now claim that they are in position to compel the company to rec ognize their organization, and it really looks as though they have the company pretty badly worried, unless relief comes soon.
 Sc. vania using anthracite coal that will not have to be banked up or blown out. The situation is getting very serious, and each day seems to add new complications The business community is becoming great alarmed.
 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11.-There was no meeting of the general executive board, Knights of Labor, yesterday, nor is it. likely there will be to-day. Notwithstanding the fact that some of the morning newspapers stated that a majority of the members of the general committee were ill Philadelphia. they have not yet arrived. Barry and Aylesworth left to-day, and neither Mcguire, Carleton nor Bailey have been heard from It is now regarded as certainty that no further action will Do taken in the matter by the general executive committee of the Knights of Labor.
 NoRRIsTowN, Pa., Jan. 11.-Michael Fo- garty and Dennis Hayes, two striking em- ployes, Monday night boarded one of the Reading companys locomotives which was standing below Conshohocken and assaulted the train crew. The latter endeavored to put the two men off the engine, and in the scume which epsued Fogarty knocked Ep- pin. The fight lasted about twenty min- utes. Detectives were sent from Philadel- phia, and yesterday morning they arrested the two Delligerent strikers It was devel- oped, however, that Hayes had acted the part of 0 peacemaker. He was discharged, and Fogarty was committed for trial.