Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-14
MINERS GOING OUT
The Reading Company's Galleries
All Closed but Two.
The Scarcity Of Coal Will Doubtless
Compel the Iron Works and
Furnaces to Shut Down.
READING EMPLOYEES QUIT.


SHAMoKIN, Pa, Jan. 3.-The miners strike
went into effect this morning at all Of the
Philadelphia and Reading company's collier
les IN this section, with the exception Of North
Franklin Nos. ] and 2. In addition to those
ot leading, the company's colliery miners
went out at the Pennsylvania, owned by the
Union Coal company; Enterprise, owned by
the Enterprise company, and the Garfield,
owned by the Garfield Coal company. An
agreement was entered into At some Of the
mines, whereby the old rate wages will he
paid until the strike is settled. The collierics
now idle in Shamolin gave employment to
$500 miners.
The Enterprise coal company has agreed to
pay its miners the s per cent. advance de-
mahdcd. The miners at Nelson shaft having
failed TO reach a settlement will strike .omor-
row.
Mt. GARNET, Pa, Jan. 3.-Thc proprietors
OF the Bclmore, Morris Ridge, Mt. Carmel,
Centralia and Excelsior collieries, employing
1900 hands, have agreed to pay the S per cent.
advance on the ~two-ifty basis, pending settle
ment by the Reading company, and work VIII
be resumed tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEN PROTEST.
READING, Pa, Jan. 3.-The proprietors Of
the large furnaces and iron works In this see
ton predict that if the Reading mines are
shut down for two weeks a majority of the
large establishments will be obliged to close,
owing To the lack of supply Of coal. 1t is
estimated that in this city alone from 5000 to
1900 men are employed in the iron works,
which are in urgent need Of coal. Not one
has over a W eck's supply, Reports received
today show that of the siXty-eight collieries
in the Schuylkill region, forty o. the largest
Of which are controlled by the II, aiding COM
pany, but six are ut work. There il a move
mcnt on foot among the business men OF this
end OF the Schuylkill valley TO hold a meeting
in this city and bring such pressure 10 bear
upon President Corbin as to cause him to con-
sent TO an arbitration Of the miners strike ut
least. Ii is argued that the immense indus
tries Of this section of the state cannot afford
such u fearful paralysis Of business and trade.
The strike viii not only throw 10000 miners
out Of employment, but 10000 iron workers as
well.
DIVISION MOS MINERS.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. at is said that 15,-
900 Schuylkill miners are Idle today. 1t Is
impossible TO tell now the exact number Of
Reading employees who have quit work.
During the afternoon General Manager Me
L.eod received telcgraphic information to the
effect that there Is considerable division Of
opinion among the miners, and that they are
far from being a unit IN their disposition to
obey the order to strike. The impression pre-
walls that there will be more mines in opera
ton tomorrow than there are today. A num-
Der of Italians were today put to work at the
Port Richmond wharves. More than 500
Italians are now at work in the company's
yards.
AT louisville.
PoTTsvILLE, Jan. 3.-Advices received to
day from a number Of points In the coal
regions show that very few c~ollieries are
working. The Reading collieries at Shamokin,
and all between Ashland and that place, are
also idle. The railroad Ia working smoothly
and little difficulty is experienced in moving
freight and coal. All the engines on the
Mahoney division are now manned and
worked. At Shenandoah all the Reading
railroad miners are out.
ASSOCIATION CONVENTION.
PITTsBURG, Jan. 3.-The annual convention
Of miners and laborers of the Amalgamated
association began at Everson, Pa, this morn
ing, and will continue several days. There IL
a large attendance, and the proceedings go
far have been harmonious.
MINERS OUT.
ASHLAND, Jan. 3.-The Knights OF Labor
miners, ct 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 today, and that one is shorthanded.
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