Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-04
THOUSANDS OF MINERS OUT.
The strike in Pennsylvania Very Eek.
tensive - Readings Business Badly
CrippIeSl.

The strike Of miners in Pennsylvania has be-
come quite extensive In the Pottsville region the
number out Is estimated at between $1,000 and
10000. In the ShamOkln section the strike went
into effect at all the Philadelphia and Reading
Company's colieries, with the exception OF the
North Franklin numbers and 2. In addition 10
those at the Reading Company's colneries, the
miners went out at the Pennsylvania, owned by the
Union Coal Company, the Enterprise, owned by the
Enterprise Coal Company, and the Garfield, owned
by the Garfield Coal Company. An arrangement
was entered into at the Nelson shaft, the Excel
slor, the Hickory Ridge, the Hickory swamp and
the Lancaster collieries, whereby the Droprietors
agrer 20 pay the old rate OF wages until the strike
is settled The coilieries now idle in Shamokin
give employment 10 $500 men.
Reports received 10 Reading yesterday show
That OF the Sixty-eight coeries In the Schuylkill
region, forty OF the largest Of which controlled
by the Reading Co. bat six are at work. The
members OF the Knights OF Labor in Reading,
while refusing to STRIKE have promised the schuyl-
kill miners financial support the same they are
giving the men in the Iehish region. There is
the Schuyiklll Valley 10 hold meeting In Reading
and bring such pressure TO bear upon President
COrbin rs 10 cause him to consent to arbitration OF
the miners strike at least. The strike viii not
only throw 30, 700 miners out OF employment, but
80, 600 iron workers as we'll.
Reports from the coal regions received at Read
ing last night say that nearly all the company
cOlierieS are Idle, but nearly all the Individual
Operators have made arrangements with their men
men will now refuse TO mine the coal because 1t
Will be taken TO udewater points BY non-union
train hands. IL is also believed that the company
Will refuse 10 furnish these individual operators
with cars
AT the various depots and stations in Philadel-
phIa there Is the stereotyped statement that the
business OF the road Is proceeding as smoothly as
could be wished, and this statement is as uni
formly contradicted by the strikers, who state
that the Reading Co. do not make public the
actual number OF men on strike, ana that they are
crippled In all departments for lack OF proper
workmen to handle the trafhc OF the road The
company says that IL Is overwhelmed with appu-
cations from laDorerS In search or employment
and that they have enough men In reserve 10 NIL
any number OF vacancies that can possibly occur.
Although the stock OF coal on hand In the Read
ing Co. Fort Richmond yards Is almost exhausted
the agents OF the company are firm In their ex-
preston OF the belief that there Is no danger OF
coal famine.
PRIVATE OPERATORS ARRANGING WITH THEIR MEN,
Mt Carmel, Pa, dispatch says that the pro-
pretors OF Bellmore, Morris Ridge, Mt Carmel,
Centralia, Excelsior, PARK, Glendon, Primrose, and
Min Creek cOlleries, employing two thousand
hands. have agreed 70 pay the per cent advance
"n The $50 basis pending a settlement by the
.;'SIInS Co., and work will be resumed. The
Attska, Locust Gap, Locust Spring. Monitor, Mer-
Hrh, and Congressman SCOTS Pennsylvania col
res are lille, and the miners are determined in
tHclr demands.
twenty-five OF the one hundred and forty tramps
confined in the county workhouse at Lancaster
have consented 10 go to Reading TO ike the
s'Iike.s' places. the local Knights OF Labor pro-
posc W Aoid a meeting 10 protest against Tue
move.
POSTPONED MAKING THE REDUCTION.
The railroad co / operators in the PittSburg dis
tr1ct, who posted notices Monday ordering a re-
duction in wages OF five per cent per ton decided
Tuesday TO withdraw the order for few days, for
the purpose OF giving the Knights OF Labor more
time TO compel the operators not paying the
Columbus scale 10 advance wages 10 the standard
rate. A committee OF miners LEFT for Washington
yesterday 10 see Congressman W. L. Scott and
prevail upon him, If possible, TO pay the Columbus
scale. III unsuccessful, the Knights OF Labor will
orter strike at az the mines where the Columbus