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and NO Interference with the handling o
freight. We have resumed the running OF the
@ w9F and @anS nSS S Gm SsS sfs rom oS ot
/ men"
"Ths Lehlsh Valley HSiro%d is tied up tHpts tebter
and more flrmly than It has been at any time
since the strike was ordered. The company. Il
II Is running only its mail trains, and We are
willing its should run them. We have not in.
The companv % has not o mo moved freight i or IOi
coal car There have been no desertions from
o oped 5"nEs h on the Gontraty r We we are being
have eucceeded in employing The prospect
Tor our success is exceedingly bright"
following telegram to-day to every station on
the road:
We greet you a, on. man. BaGSlo to NsUch q CHUNK
With such contradictory stories from the
contestants II Is not an easy matter to find the
have come @ out. % The train train known % as the night
express, which left jersey City at 3 o'clock last
night, did not reach fnston until $50 a. NJ.
reach Wilkesbarre. until $3.50 o'clock, and i
was held herC until after II o'clock. when II
i Who W We're SouSd @ @tof EHIsSsss.' EHIs''i triS9
tickets from the ofrlcials. who referred
them to the, passenger department Of the COM
nany in Philadelphia, but didn't tell them any
way to yet there. and they, were compelled to
which was due at Wikesbarre at 12:24 o. clock
TO ira In No. IL also from Enston. 1t had been
abanioned hs a. train and consolidated at
Scheduled pToN 10 run hath through ' to Avoca Tss @
stopped hero. and the passengers were picked
up by another train which came In three hours
due her. Mt $3.50 this morning, hasn't got here
yet. This ia the train which was heid up at
Sayre yesterday. and the passenger coaches
were cut oil. The passengers were packed ia
the mail gar and stood up,
Iratn 20 ~ was hye hours iate at sayre.
Private Information to TUE Sun CORE.
spondent from Sayre is TO the effect that
matters are in even more desperate condition
than they were yesterday: that the town Is
absolutely in the hands OF tho strikers. and
that they manage It to suit themselves. They
have committed no depredations except In the
way OF holding IN trains and uncouplnR cars.
out trouble oL even more serious NATURE Is sx.
been appealed to- The fact that the mail train
did not come through Is due to the fact that
The strikers say that they have intimidated
no one. This is not true. They say the men
Who hnve r4n tie mall train hersrotore h l4ined
dispatches to The Sun correspondent from
Pottsville say that fifteen lremen who worked
From iazleton came word to- night that there
WAS no trafc on the II azleton division to-day.
morning came from sayre, 1t left there last
night without the strikers finding II out until
Alter It was gone aad i H. lay he5r here awhIe
milk may be sour before it reaches
its destination. but the company feels that
through, It Is reported here that the virtual
stopragc OF the milk train has caused hard
ship In towns that depend on II ior their sup
appeals to the strikers In the name OF the
babies OF these towns to man the train and
put it through. The men say they are willing
II the heads OF their orders will permit 1t, and
II Is not unlikely that. II the strike continues,
the milk train in the hands OF the men will
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\ big meeting oil the strikers was held this
afternoon in their headquarters at OddFeliows'
with the rest OF the men. was. present. lie was
suspected OF being unfaithful. and was told
that he could take his choice OF going away
or betug droppcd out 9ta two.story
window: He went away and he said hethought
maybe he would return to work to-day some
ami learning what the company, has been
doing. IIcporled that all o. last night
an assistant. had visited the houses OF
somo OF the strikers and had tried
to induce then to return to TorS: The strIk-
Ot the mon who Ind refused to go out. and
scared them into Joinin: the strikers. Super
the Mayor in these Sases. The scouts argued
at the meeting that Mr.. Bardo and Mr.. Murphy
nan pa dSnS o the W strk,rs DONG nn9 tSsy
passed II resolution protesting. 1ney also re-
solved to appeal to the Mayor and the police to
men Who we're at the meeting said they h"d
been awakened from sleep by the officials.
whom they called trespassere. and they said II
The letter which Superintendent Esser sent
Put Yesterday to AL the strikers; ordering
ng il they did not want 1t understood that
they voluntarily resigned their places. was ex-
show the weakness OF the strikers. There was
: hiE crowd OF men Mt the station at o'clock
the ba thsy Of hnS w6n
have gone W to the ONCE and reported. |
But majority Of the men were there to
iseF tsS dSocS on Sat n9'' more Me0 than SSf uR
lozen had gone up md the strikers made |
ight Of 1t. only once did they say anything to !
man who was giving In. and as soon as they !
lid that the r"lire- AN on duty asked them TO ,
20 away They uid 20 off the ,company's |
prevent their seeing the door. and they Kept |
watch until 10 o'clock. They said then that
MY ten men had gone up, % and they de,
we're union men. The company officials said |
hat out OF the 10 crews employed
'ome OF them said they were ready to 60 out
my time. and to test their ;aith Mr.. Esser or
eTed them to 60 to he round h house G,S amt take
,rought the engines down hy the depot. but as
he company was not ready to move any
hey were Kept on duty. nevertheless, and the
olice kept the strikers away from them,
The railroad officials saL that nesides the
lere some fremen and several train crews.
'ney did not tell the total number Of men who
nd reported. hut they did say that all the
zen who had failsd to report could consider |
hat their connection with the road had ceased
nj that their places would be flled as fast
was possible 10 MI them. Despite the yig-
lnce OF the police in driving watching strikers
way from the depot. the strikers hhd plckets
n duty TO inter opt men. reporter was mis-
lken for telegraph operator by one OF them.
'ho buttonhOled him and said:
" say, beg your pHrdon but ia IKE TO ask
You are "a telegraph OpeUtorF
The reporter, anxious To see What would iol-
wv answered Yes" .-,.u
Have you been after a Job up stairs
" ON, no, lust sltpp.d into tho olileo to see
ow things are going"
" Stranger heret"
" " ell, Perhaps" -,..
- How long have you been in the cityf"
" bout twenty two years,
- sure you're not after lob =
" Well I'm ons OF the operators myself and
hope YOU won't accent a place II you're one
US. This unpeasantness isn't going TO last
great while. I'm positive We operators
-uctically hold the ksy TO the situation. IL
e cun keep the boys out Tor lew days the
'mpany is sure to give In.
Just after the reporter there came an eppll-
mt Tor place. lie WAS stopped bY another
: Say" he said. ARE You looking for q lob ?"
. am" replied tbs applicant
" Are you railroad man
- ! am"
'' Well. look here. younG fellow. II YOU ,cAres
lap Tor your life you won't want loH r.,