The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-07
SERIOUS SITUATION
IN THE READING COAL REGION.
Tho Ersots of the Great Strike Felt BY
EvsrybOdy-strikerS Passing Free Trade
Resolutions to FrIghtSn the Road Iuto
Complying with Their Demands.

READING, Pa, Jan. 6.-It tisevident from
the decreasing shipments down the rail
road that the output OF collieries in the
schuylkill region is growing Less. During
last night and up to noon to-day but 800
cars had passed down the road. The ad-
vance in the price Of coal Is bringing the
cost oil the strike home to everybody
throughout the schuylkill Valley. Coal
dealers in this city have been informed by
producers that egg, stove, small stove, pea
and chestnut coal would be advanced at
the mines 81 per ton over the ruling price
December 81. The coal agents Of the
Reading Railroad Company were not offer
ing for sale any Coalin that section. There
has been considerable anxiety as to
whether or not the company would con.
tinue to furnish individual operators with
cars. According to special dispatch from
Donaldson, Schuylkill county, Miller L
Co., operating at New Lincoln, had inten-
ded paying the eight per cent over the
So so bRsis OF arbitration, and when sot.
tlement had been made Mr.. Miller said he
would pay his men the came as other op.
orators. A committee called on him at
his office on Pine Grove, and we're in.
formed that he could not continue the
eight per cent, as the company had as
sured him that II he did go they would not
send him any cars.
The Suffolk Colliery at MRhonay City,
which was working with q email force OF
non-union men, Closed down to-day. This
concluded the Reading Company's at.
tempt to run it's Collieries without the
Knights. The detection among the nom
union railroaders continues, and 1t cannot
be said that tho company losea much by
the departure Of some Of them. So far
there has been no trouble between the In
dividual operators and their men relative
to the handling Of their coal by the Read
ing Railroad Company's non:union en-
ployes.
The conservative and leading element
Of the Knights is opposed to complicAtirg
the present situation and endanger possi-
BILE negotiations by connecting the rail-
readers strike with that OF the miners.
All the moral influence and financial aid
that the miners can give they will extend
heartily. They do not want to lose the
business sentiment that is in their favor
and steadily growing, and which will man
ifsst itself in q meeting Of business men
here Tomorrow to appoint delegation to
act in conjunction with others from coun-
ty towns to visit President Corbin and
urge on him thswisdom OF arbitration OF
the present troubles, and avert disaster
for the general industrial intefestG oi the
coal region and dependent communities.
There are some forty furnaces located
along the line OF the Reading Railroad,
and to-day, alter much correspondence,
the Reading Coal and Iron Company sup.
piled some Of the most needy furnaces
with coal, bqt at an advance Of 50 cents
per ton.
More discharges OF rsilrosders employed
in the coal carrying trade were made here
to-day. The total numbers discharged
from Philadelphia to Wllliamsport is esti-
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