Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-10
MINERS STILL CONFIDENT !!
BUSINESS MEN WILL INTERVIEW
 PRESIDENT CORBIN,

And Try to Effect . settlement-Chair-
 man Lee Insists on an Absolute Surren-
 der on the Part of the Reading Conn
 pany-Contributions Pouring in.
 READING, Pa, Jan. 1o-At o'clock last evening the Reading officers had no account of any trains as having left above for down the road It looks as though matters were becoming more serious every day.
 The business men in Schuylkill county and throughout eastern Pennsylvania will call on President Corbin this week with a view of urging compromise with the striking miners. A prominent Reading official inti- mated yesterday that if the men showed a proper disposition, and did not expect too much, the trouble would be settled within tho next ten days There is little doubt that the trouble would have been adjusted by this time were it not that the miners have become mixed up with the discharged railroaders. There can be no settlement on any terms unless they recede from that position.
 Chairman John L. Lee and William T. Lewis, master workman of the Miners Ma uional assembly, held a conference with prominent Knights of Labor Sunday night in relation to the strike. The session lasted until nearly midnight. Chairman Lee stated yesterday before leaving the city: ''I feel that we have this strike in our own hands. All of the Reading Railroad company's col- ieries are practically idle. They are mak- ing the show of running several of their mines with a handful of men, but they are neither selling nor shipping a ton of coal. Beginning with to-day not an individual mine will be in operation. The miners of the Wyoming region have not been called | upon to strike, but they have promised fnan- | cial support. If it is necessary to call them out to win the strike they will respond to a f man, but no such order has yet been issued. If it is absolutely necessary for the Reading miners to win, every miner in Pennsylvania | will be called upon to strike, and our assur- ances are that they will all come out if called upon."
 Mr. Lee added that he had been assured that the Knights in this city were heartily | with the order at large in demanding the re- | lnstatement of all the men discharged after ;he strike had been declared off, and that ii they did move they would move as one man. | In this connection, however, it may bt stated on the other hand that the Reading Knights, numbering 2,0OO, have reiterated time and again that they would not strike and this is the situation to-day. The shop are working, and there are no indications oi a strike, though they will give all the finan | clal nelp they can. hnlSntS nere say Una in refusing to strike they obeyed the rules O. the order, as Chairman Lee had no authorit, to order strike, which could only b ordered by the district assembly or the gen | eral executive board.
 WILKEsBARRE, Pa., Jan. 10.-A grea
 impetus to the contributions in behalf of tn | Lehigh strikers is manifested hereabouts to | day, since the urgent appeals of the Knight of Labor have come in. The miners sa, that they are better able now to give tha
 awhile ago, on account of steady work in tn
 mines, assured by the unprecedented deman
 for coal. The solicitors also report generou contributions on the part of merchants
 ELIZABETH, N. J., Jau. 10.-Work wa
 suspended at the Reading docks, Elizabeth
 port, yester iay, and all the non-union me
 were paid off at noon and marched o
 board the steamers on which they hay
 been living. No Reading coal has arrives
 tt Elizabethport in four days, and less tha
 100 carloads are on the docks Three boat
 were lowed to New York yesterday fror
 the Elizabethport docks with only half
 cargo in each. The blockade is complete a
 this point, and two-thirds of the specia
 armed police have been sent away, ther
 being nothing for them to do. The striker
 still believe they will be successful