The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-01-05
READING MINERS GO OUT.
THE GREAT CONTEST BETWEEN LA.
BoR AND CAPITAL BEGUN.


Strikers Claim that the Strike Will Becom,
General Over the Entire Reading System
and Confident of Success Mo labor
Troubles In tho Coke Fields.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan 4-Ths great
strike which has been expected for the past
week is now fully on. ALI the miners are out
in sympathy with the railroad men already
out. The action Of tire miners here in going
out this morning has greatly strengthened
the strikers here and they are very sanguine
Of ultimate victory.
When the whistles blew at Third and Bsrks
streets depot this morning scarcely man
appeared, The mon az this point are mostly
members Of Assembly 8,B19, and, acting up
TO their resolutions Of Saturday night, they
refuse to work this morning The assembly
Is composed of engineers, conductors and
brakemen, and the msn at Third and Berks
run the eleven shifting engines at that point.
But one was at work this morning, although
Dispatcher Geary said be had filled tho places
Of all Of the strikers,
At Port Richmond everything is quiet and
work is done without much difficulty. Harry
]. Bennett, Of the executive committee, re-
ceived the following kilograms, which he
hastened to make public:
''POTTsvILLE, January 8, 1889.
ITO Henry j. Bennett:
Miners are out to a man, and the pros
poets for downing the coInany are bright
''B. j. SHARKERn
"PoTrSVILLE, January 3.
Henry J. Bennett:
ttInint pOTnFDitkaa Of yot1rNo Ja,-,I orI ,,.s.
ers at a meeting last night appointed a COM
mittee to wait Powderly
"B J. SHARKER.n
"Now that tie miners are with us, the fight
will soon he o'Ts; they must give in," said
Mr.. Bennett.
The strikers are very bitter against the
scabs and may cause trouble If the strike
continues.
Several men were walking across to the
Willow-street wharf this morning when they
were stopped by Joseph T, Coghlan, master
workman of assembly No $500. He went u,
to them and said: Say boys, you aint look.
ing for job are you' Nobody but scabs ere
working and he used soma very strOng
language not at all complimentary to the
men at work The men replied tha5 they
would not work if there was strike going
on and went away
-Four shifting engines wers at work at this
point moving trains. Everything was quiet
at Ninth and Green and no more men have
quit A notice was posted up there to the
effect that conductors engineers and other,
whose passes had expired could have them
renewed at the office
A number of coal trains covered with
snow came i'll on Pennsylvania avenue thi,
morning and the dealers vera soon at work
carting it away. No more men had stopped
work here and about twenty shifting engines
we're at work.
Superintendent Sweigard would not be
seen i'll answer to request for all interview.
General Manager Mcleod sent word that ne
had nothing to say; that the road was doing
well and that he did not know hoa long 5t :
trouble with the miner3 would last
1t was rumored here this morning that the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers had
passed resolutions to stand by the Reading
road and condemning the action taken by
the Knights Of Labor but Manager Mcleod
said he had not received any such resou-
tiOns