Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-09
THE END IS NEAR /!
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT STRIKE IN
 THE MINE REGIONS.

THE MINE REGIONS.
 While the Strike on the Railroad Has
 Virtually Collapsed, it is Possible That
 tho Mine Workers May Settle Their
 Differences in Friendly Conclave.
 READING, Pa, Jan. 9.-Sunday was fine day throughout the coal regions, but nearly all the local assemblies held meetings and renewed their pledges to stand firm in their demands The Reading company made an- other effort to start up several of it's collier ies this morning, but they were not able to secure enough non-union men to make respectable show The only two collieries at work Saturday were the Brookside and Suffolk, at St. Nicholas, and the latter was compelled to shut down at noon, the men having refused to enter the mines. At Brookside the company had sixteen miners at work and turned out twenty cars of coal. This colliery is the largest owned by the Reading company, and has an annual capa- city of 735, 900 tons.
 The strike on the railroad has collapsed, and it is doubtful question whether the miners will continue to champion the cause of the discharged train hands much longer, especially if Mir. Corbin shows @ disposition to pay the advance asked by the miners. The meeting of business men at Shenandoah on Saturday, where action was taken look ing to the settlement of the miners griev- ances by arbitration, is very favorably re- garded by all classes. It would not be sur prising if the committee appointed at that meeting to interview Mir. Corbin would in- duce the railroad magnate to meet his min- ing employees and arrange treaty. That the present inactivity must soon end, to k>h fv,fa ctc is universally acknowledged, and it is hoped and believed that spirit of conservatism on the part of employers and employed will soon result in a resumption of work.
 A considerable quantity of the coal now being mined at the individual collieries is being sent to the various furnaces and roll ing mills in the Schuylkil valley.
 Tie district assembly Knights of Labor, including all Philadelphia and Reading rail- road employees, as we'll as miners, will be per- manentiy organized ill this city on Sunday next
 The ruff of coal down the road yesterday was but 800 cars, while three weeks ago there was shipped through this city the enormous number of $500 cars, drawn by sixty-one engines. When these figures are compared the terrible stagnation in the coal trade can be fully appreciated. At the car shops in this city the books show that the number of coal cars in active service on the road is about 10000. Nearly all of these are now lying on the sidings in the coal regions
 POTTSvILLE, Pa., Jan. 9.-A report was circulated yesterday that the compeny would make a proposition to the miners to-day, with a view of settling the strike. The rumor was very indefinite, and not even the mem bers of the strikers committee could tell where it originated, except that it was sup posed to have arisen from some kind of a conference of the comIanY's officials The company's representatives here professed to know nothing about the rumored proposi- tion. Secretary Cahill said he had heard the report, but was unable to say what truth there was in it. As he had heard it, the report did not indicate whether the proposi- tion was to be made to the miners only, or to both the miners and the railroad men.
 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.-Rumors current in this city among financial people point to Q difference of opinion among the members of the Drexel-Morgan syndicate, which is still the handspring of Readings affairs, over the advisability of adopting compromise measures to settle the miners strike. Mr.. Drexel is in New York; and it is believed that the purpose of his visit is to consult other members of the syndicate, as well as representatives of other interests, to urge the necessity of an end of the strike in the mines. MT. Drexel's often expressed sympa- thy with labor organizations, as we'll as his wel-known views favoring arbitration in this matter, leads to this belief.
 CHICAGO, Jan. 9.-Thomas B. Barry, of the general executive board of the Knights of Labor, left here suddenly for:.the east yes terday afternoon, presumably to assume leadership in the Reading strike and attempt a settlement Mir. Barry said he had re- ceived telegram from Philadelphia direct ing him to proceed at once to Reading. He departed without waiting to reach decision in the matter which brought him to Chicago the dispute between the painters and the hard wood fniShers.