New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-10
NO BREAK IN THE STRIKE.
READING COLLTERIEs STILL IDLE.
STRIKERS DISAPPOINTED AT THE RESULT OF TIL
STOCKHOLDERS ANNUAL MEETfNG-MIs-
CREANTs ATTEMPT TO WRECK
LEHIGa VALLEY
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READING, JAN 0.-Chairman John l.. Lee came
to Reading late last night and held conference
with leading Knights of Labor in this city Ola
the situation. Mr.. Lee said: We are now
virtually in a position to compel the company
to come to terms. Did you ever know OF striiie
SO complete? We will stop every colliery in the
Schuylkll regions, and on and after to-day you
will see very little coal passing through this city
until this trouble is settled"
Do you think the company will take back the
discharged railroad employees"
They must. II they don't, the miners Will
not mine a pound Of coal"
Reading officials here say that they will never
re-employ their old men. They have all been
discharged and paid off,
Cant help that Those men were treated
shamefully and you will find before another
week has passed that the situation as far as the
Reading Company is concerned will not be quite
so rosy We are on top now, and unless am
very much mistaken the company Will only De
too glad to reinstatc US old hands and that very
soOn." -, ~,
:" Do you expee. outside help in your 6ght:?'
"We DO, because the war is waged on She
! organization, and that fact alone has created ID a
feeling of enthusiasm everywhere. We are re-
ceiving hundreds of letters daily from all over
the country, rendering assistance .,.
The furnaces in the Schuylkill, Valley wittli
operation Those at Pottsyille, were banked up
to-day but the Reading officials hope to relieve
their wants in few days up to JU had GG5Sc bScn
started from either Palo Alto or Cressona; me
strike, if possible, is now about as general as 10
can be made, unless the strikers call out the men
and Henry Clay Galleries 1t has always been
customary to permit the men to perform wSrr
of this kind pending trouble h o. acutye y Com.
mittcc will depart from the established rules
The strikers committee in Pottsville assert
that not a single individual collery situated along
the line of the Reading Railroad was in operation
to-day and as no coal trains have been started
from above here, it may be taken for granted
that with one or two exceptions not q slhge
Company rut forty-hve men to work here to-day
in loading pea and buclwhcat coal at their shutes
The fuel being fhppSd to and
Richmond TO supply its locomotives; =. ..,i, a.
party of young men stoned freight tram al
Locust Summit to-day, but no one was injured
dastardy attempt was made to wreck pas
senger train on the Ichigh Valley Railroad near
Pottsvlle late last night by placing heavy stones
between tho guard and main rail. Fortunately
LIGHT freight engine preceded the passenger train
and striking the stones broke the guard-rall; Inc
engine was stopped, and the conductor only sue
dent to the passenger train. which, had 1t Struck
the broken rail. would have plunged ever inc
bridge into n ravine 30 feet deep ON the return ,
rip II was found that another obstruction had beer
placed NJ the same place 1t is believed by rail-
road officials that IL the work OF strikers, nut
this is not believed. There were some lOfty pas
Sengers on the train.
Many of the furnaces are receiving large guam
titles Of coke which they will use in connection
With what anthracite coal they have on hand
The miners throughout the coal regions were
rreatlv disappointed because Mr.. COrbin failed to
make any allusion to the strike at to-days annual
meeting and arc now pretty well satisfied that he
means to fight it out TO the bitter end. The pre-
vailng sentiment among persons attending the
nectinc of the Reading Railroad stockholders in
ohiladelphia to-day showed that the officials are
likely to endcavor to bring about settlement IN
some way, however, il it can be done with good
race