The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-23
MANY NON-UNION MEN.
Hurrying to Take Places Of Le-
high Valley Strikers
eNclMEERs IN ABUNDANCE.


RocHurKx. Nov. @-Representsttvss o.
the Eve brotherhoods from Phiiadelphia.
Buffalo. Batavia. Sayre and Easton are
attending . conference here which viii
last al night. A member OF the board
said TO thu Associsted Press: IF neces-
sary the men on other roads viii be cailea
out promptly. beginning with the Centrai,
tina Others 10 follow. Everything tonight
Is in our favor" The situation here to-
night Is practically unchanged Trains
are moving q irregular Intervals Inese
are few passenger trains and no mer-
chandise.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22-About 15O al
legged non-union men were sent tonight TO
Bethlehem. presumably to take the places
OF the STRIKING engineers, nremen ana
trainmsn on the Lehigh Valley road.
One OF the men said they were Win lev
exceptions Brotherhood men who had
hired to the company for the purpose OF
disconesrting the road. They did not IN
tend TO 60 to work, but 80 simply where
directed and then abandon their employ
ers. At midnight everything 10 quiet
along the line Of the Lehigh Valley, with
both sides resting for tomorrow.
BUFFALO, Nov. 22-At 1880 this after
noon q special train on the Lehigh started
for Sayre. Pa, carrying forty-sight en-
ginesrs TO take tae place OF strikers. us
now stated that seventy-seyen experienced
engineers vent oct on regular
train this morning. A majority OF
the men are said to be coming
from the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy.
One man said: fittings are very dull this
fall. and as soon as heard of the strike
started for Buffalo. guess that Is the
story all c.. b. & @ boys would tell you"
Lehigh officials sent train of merchadise
East this afternoon. The company have
men enough to do the work IL they can OPP
crate the yards at Gayre.
JERSEY CITY. n. j.. Nov. 22-Ths skies
are apparently clearing as tar as the freight
end Of the Lehigh Valley strike Is con-
cerned. Yardmaster Lamb this afternoon
said: eve are just starting out freight
train. Tonight we viii move more trains,
and by tomorrow all the regular freight
trains will be running" Superintendent
Donneliy, of the eastern division, said /:
I'VE are receiving more applications for
employment than we can entertain"
ELMIRA, N. y. Nov. 22-There is much
suppressed excitement among Lehigh
sbtASio. AuN8SsSr0 ~ tbtuoAs sA"s AAASAs
are coming from Buffalo to take their
places. The leaders counsel against
violence, but the men say freights shall
not run. The sheriff has refused to CON-
ply with q request to call out troops.
EAroN, Pa. Nov. 22.-The Lshigh
strikers have resolved to call on all still .,
work to join them. Seventeen engineers
and firemen from the Burlington q
Quincy. Baltimore & Ohio and Reading
roads arrived here this morning and were
distributed along the road. Deputy
sheriffs patrolled the yards all night and
had considerable trouble in keeping sus.
picious characters off the track.
PorrsyiLLE, Pa. Nov. 22.-Over dozen
Of the principal Lehigh Valley coliieries
have shut down for lack Of cars. More
will follow tomorrow. Fully 5000 men
and boys are thus in enforced idleness.