Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-15
AMONG THE COAL MINERS.
THE BITTER FEELING BETWEEN
 WORKERS AND STRIKERS.
Men Returning from Work Assailed by Gang Of sHoodlums-The Girls of Tre- \ mont Institute a 'Girlcott'-dino Eu- gineers and Bremen May Strike.

EanS Ot sHoOdlums-The Glris or ITc- \ mont Institute a ''Girlcott''-Ndino Ea-
 gineers and Bremen May Strike.
 READING, Pa., Feb. 15.-Trouble WIS re- ported last evening from Otto colliery, con- trolled by the Reading Railroad company. When the non union miners were returning from work mob of hoodlums attacked them with stones. After desperate assault one of the men, named Burns, was knocked down and badly beaten Several others were less severely injured. A detachment of fifty of the coal and iron police, armed with Winchester rifles, were hurried to the scene.
 Wherever the Reading company is putting non-union men ill the collieries there is more or less bad treatment of the men by the strikers and their friends, who apply the most provoking epithets to the men as they pass along toward home in the evening" grimy and black. The men plod along neekly, turning neither to the right nor left, while on all sides stand the rabble, bowling and shouting A!Scab!' and "Blackleg!" The young women tlaye become so deeply imbued with hatred for scabs that at party at Fremont a num- ber of the girls got up boycott, or "girlcott, ' as they called it, and every young woman in the hall positively refused to dance with any scab In the west end of Schuylkill, where the Reading company is doing most of it's mining. the most bitter warfare against scab labor is going on. The c6mpany's largest colliery, the Brooks, continued in operation yesterday, and shipped 1SO cars As each train left the breaker, the strikers greeted it with moans and groans
 The Reading company have hundreds of new men at work ill the mines, and if the strikers should be ordered back it is not probable the new men would be put off. The new railroad hands will not be put off, and the new hands ill the collieries will be simi- ta,ly cared for. This new complication may inter, ,fere seriously with final adjustment Some ,sf the officers believe Chairman Lewis may order the men back at the old basis, but it is exceedingly doubtful whether the order would be obeyed under existing circumstances
 The labor leaders anticipate no such move, and say that they will yet be completely vic torious over the Reading company. All en- neers, firemen, b'acksmiths and mechanics employed at the Heading company's eollieries will hold meeting Friday to order strike These important workers hold responsible pc >;ti.ns at the, collieries, and have not yet left their posts The general executive board of tbe KnsShts has sanctioned the coming meet ing. and. ..t 8 majority of the men vote to strike, all hands will quit, thus leaving the Reading compants collieries in very bad shape, if there are none k4c take their places
 PHILADELPHIA, Feb 15---;syery indication points to the most desperate mesAs being re- sorted to for the purpose of bringing the strike in the Schuylkil region to all end. The three members of the executive committee of District Assembly 213. Messrs. Hays, Ford and Britton, left this city after fruitless effort to secure conference with the officials of the Reading Coal and Iron company, and the belief that they have gone home with in ,tructions for general strike on or before Saturday of all engineers, fremen, pump men, and other mining mechanics is con- Hrlned by this telegram, which was forwarded yesterday:
 To R. Thompson, M. w., Middleport, Pa:
 Have all engineers, tiremen and punprnen sn Division F ready to go out with National J)iStvSrt o13 w TT LEWIS