Telegram-herald., 1888-01-07
IN THE COAL REGIONS
fssrs oppressed That sisls sas Factories
viii htass 70 Stop tor w.st OF Coal
IN resitns Toward tke
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PorrsvTILE Pa. Jsn 6-TAs latest aud
most significant phase o. tie Rssdirg
miners strike ls the cispoSitien OF TIE mea
70 stand oy the strsting raiisoadsn This
Was shown Yesterday in the telegram OF
John II. DAVIS. ths manager OF the miners
slTiks. 20 the editor OF Braasgresfs lie
reported 1000 Reading mine workers aud
about 1900 railroad men out and added.
Miners aid not promise by sot OF implica-
ton 20 give up tis eight per cent adyanee
on January /. Our position Is TslirO2deIs .
and miners ia a common cause of rlg az aud
jas Iae sane sentiment WIS s's0
shown waen ths miners at toe William
Penn celllery refused l. cut coal 70 be ban.
died by non union rsiiroSders-
As = result of a conference is.ueen Chair
man Davis aad several ind Yiduai operators
II is believed that all Tie individual mines
viii SOON De running. The coal shipments
on the Residing hAye greatly fallen on. aud
the total suspension OF the Reading Com
panys mines is pfedictsd.
The committee which called on kr Pow
derly found him too III 10 gave much atten-
ton % the strike. Ii was decided that rep
Tesentatiyes oi the different districts inter
ested should lay tbs whole matter before
the executive board next Monday.
The strike among the railroad men Is
substantially unchanged. A manifesto has
teen issued by the Grand Master OF the
Brotherhood OF Engineers. announcing that
the Brotherhood has nothing TO do with the
strike and must keep clear OF it.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6-This is in al re-
spects the most promising day oil the strike
yet, from = strikers point of view and they
are accordingly happy, while the officials OF
the Reading are depressed. AL eyes are on
Philadelphia. anxiously awaiting some
manifesto from the biz corporation.
At Port Richmond today the work is
badly crippled. Sixty Italians who took
the place OF the strikers quit work this
! morning. upon the Inducements of Presi-
dent franchitelli, of the Italian Workiag-
mems Beneficial Association. This, accord
ing To the men, leaves only those Itaians
who were brought from other cite. at work
| on the system there. Scarcely any work
was being done on the piers, and only four
shifting engines were working. Henry /.
Bennett said be had received dispatches
| from Bernard Sharkey, stating thai the sit
| uation Was good al Pottsyille. and the men
all firm.
Something in the nature of compromise
| with the miners must be made in q few
| days, as the scarcity of coal is becoming
alarming, and every mail brings q batch OF
READING, Pa. Jan. 6.-rhe strike in the
coal regions is as solid as il can well be
made, aud the Reading officials are thoi-
| oughly uneasy. The public, who are
the sufferers, are getting angry and there is
| no mistaking the temper OF those who have
great interests at stake. The coal supply is
nearly exhausted and there is a quiet but
determined spirit being manifested every
where IN Eastern Pennsylvania that Presi-
dent CoTbin should cease his war on the
Knights OF Labor, for the present at least.
A weli-known man said today that If thu.
trouble is not quickly settled it will destroy
business and stop mills and factories
all over the State where they are depending
upon anthracite coal for fuel. Matters are
growing more complicated daily. aud it is
probable that the proprletors of all leading
industries will call q meeting within o few
days in view of urging the railroad officials
TO adopt more conciliatofy means.