The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-04
No BREAK IN THE STRIKE.
BOTH SIDES IN THE SAME ATTI-
TUDE AS AT FIRST.

Only 200 Loaded Coal Cars Now
Passing Through Reading, Where
1000 Went Before-Factories will
be Closed If the Strike of the Miners
Becomes General.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.--The great rail
road strike is still on and it is characterized
by the same determination of both sides to
stand firm that has marked it from the
beginning. AT the various depots and
stations i'll the city there is the stereotyped
statement that the business of the road is
proceeding as smoothly as could be wished,
and this statement is as uniformly CON
tradicted by the strikers who state that the
Reading company do not make public
the actual number of men on strike,
and that they are crippled in all depart
meuts for lack of proper workmen to
handle the traffic of the road So far as
discernible to professional observer
the work of receiving and delivering freight
is progressing as usual at all the depots and
wharves in this city Railroad officials say
the applications outnumber the vacancies
two to one.
At Port Richmond everything remains
with little or no change.
tAU lue Ot lJdDOT III
this place there is a constant and earnest
effort to make clear the cause of the strike.
Although the stock of coal ON hand in the
Reading company's Port Richmond yards is
almost exhausted the agents of the com
pany are firm in their expression of the be-
lief that there is no danger of coal fam
inc. The yards at that shipping point con-
tain but II 200 tons of all kinds Of coal, the
largest amounts being egg and chestnut.
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A MEMORANDUM OF THE AGREEMENT.
PoTTsvILLE, PA, Jan. 3.--The joint
committee of the Miners Anal
gamated Association and Knights of Labor
met in this city to-day. The result of their
deliberations was the PRONUNCIATION of a
counter statement setting forth the miners
side of the negotiations resulting in the
wages agreement of Sept. IA, and their
view of the true Interpretation of that
agreement.
This manifesto presents a memorandum
of the agreement prepared by the joint com
mittee and submitted to General Manager
Whiting, and which it was claimed was ac-
cepted 10y him, and also copy of the agree
ment of Sept IA, as already published, III
which there are important variations and
which it is claimed were made by
Mr.. Whiting, ''either by de
sign or mistake" The manifesto
proceeds as follows: "Mr Corbins circu-
lar ignoring both parties to the agreement
was sent to the men with the purpose, we
believe, of creating diSsensions That this
purpose has failed, and that the employees
are as unit in this demand for a renewal
of the agreement, is evidence that we have
acted in such a manner as to gain the ap-
proval of those whom we have the honor TO
represent. Mr.. Corbin says: 1T will be
impossible for this company to pay
more for its labor than other
comDanies do, but this company will never
pay less than other companies pay Up to
the publication of this circular this COM
mittee has had agreements sent to it by no
less than eleven mining companies and in
dividual operators who have signed TO pay
the wages asked for by us " IN conclusion the
manifesto says: In August last, when
the demand was made and the question was
under discussion Mr.. Whiting suggested
that the men continue to work and that
the matter could be arbltrated and settled,
but in the present affair Mr. Corbin allows
no such privilege nor makes any such offer,
hence there is no alternative for the men
but to accept the proffered reduction or
quit. Let the public judge of this whole
question upon its merits"
THE DIE Is CAST.
The manifesto issued tonight by the joint
committee of the Miners Amalgated Asso-
citation and Knights of Labor, declares that
the die is cast, and that general strike at
all the fifty-five colljeries of the Reading
company and all other collieries
in this region, except those
concedng the per cent advance will be
inaugurated tomorrow morning. The five
Reading colieries which continued in opera
tion to-day had barely sufficient men at
work to keep up nominal operation, and all
these will shut down tomorrow. IN addi-
tion to the Reading and various individual
collieries, all the Mineral Mining Company's
pennsylvania railroad operatives in the
Shamokin district have gone out.
AMONG THE MINERS.
READING, PA, Jan. 3.-There is great
alarm among the manufactures dependent
upon the Reading road for fuel Not many
of them carry large stocks of coal ahead,
and two weeks stoppage of mining would
close up majority of them. Suspensions
would begin within week. The average
run of coal through this city (which is al
most entirely at night is 1000 cars per
night, but last night only 1000
passed down, and only a few hun
dTed to-day. Out Of sixty-eight
large collieries in the Schuylkil region,
only six are at work. 1t is calculated that
if the miners strike becomes compete in
the section tributary to the Reading road
10000 miners and 10000 factory laborers
will be out of work Some individual mine
owners have made terms with their men by
agreeing to pay current wages pending the
strike and abide by its result when it ends.
Five such collieries are at work at Shamolin.
These are in addition TO the six exceptions
noted above.
OUT AT ASHLAND.
ASHLAND, PA, Jan. 3.-The Knights of
Labor miners, at a meeting here last night
decided to go on strike, and in consequence
there is but one Reading coliery in this dis
trict working to-day, and that one is short
handed. Riley a. Co have made a salts
factory agreement with their employees and
their collieries are in operation. This
agreement, it is said, is a continuance of
the rate of wages in force during the past
few months.
TRAMPS TO BE EMPLOYED.
LANCASTER, PA, Jan. 3.-The President
of the Board of Poor Directors this morn
ing asked the tramps confined in the
countys workhouse, 140 in all, who were
willing to go to Reading TO take strikers
places to sign paper, but only twenty-five
complied, the rest fearing violence Those
who have consented will be sent there. The
local Knights of Labor propose TO hold
meeting 10 protest against the move.