The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-21
STRIKERS GETTING UGLY.
EVIDENCES or BAD TEMPER AT
szYRE AND UILKESBARhE

R.iirosd ome,si. TaIk Conade.tiy, sut Get
Mighty Few wheel. TurntnE-Pnssesser
Service Crippled and Frsisht frame
Almost Completely Tied UE-More thsn
$1,000 coal Nfi-er- 60 he Thrown out OF
WORK Beenuss There Are No Cars In
which to Load Cosi-why tho Strikers
Are Conadsnt-A Report that the Jersey
Ceutr.i would Handle LehiGh Freight
surs Up the Centrsps Meu-No sisns OF
the strike SpreadinE TO other Roads.
wuKEspanRE, Nov. 20.-One Of the greatest
ealamities due solely to the big strike on the
Lehiah Valley Railroad will come tomorrow.
when upward Of $1,000 men who are not en-
ployees Of the railroad company. who at best
make wages amounting to barely enough to
eight OF starvation. who have no grievance
now against their employers. and who are
willing and anxious to work. will be thrown
out Of employment They are tho miners and
the other employees In the sixty odd col
lieries that will be compelled to shut down
In the morning because there will be
no cars In which the coal that is mined can be
loaded and got out OF the way. With these
men out OF work the situation along the line
Of the Valley road will indeed be q most seri-
Gus one, and no man can tell what may be the
outcome Of It
Naturally. OF course. the sympathy Of the
miners Is with the railroad men who are strik-
ing. at least It always has been. 1t may not
be fair to say that the misfortune that Is to
come to these men Is regarded with sstisfac-
tion By either side in the great fight. but each
eide to- night Is claiming the advantage. The
strikers say:
They are laboring men and they are union
men. OF course they will be with us in this
matter. and the moral force they can exert
will help US greatly in bringing the railroad
company to terms"
The COMPANY ofloials on the other hand say
that, while 1t IL true that the miners would by
nature. oil things being equal side with the
strikers. In this case they will side with the
railroad, because they will see that the strike
10 robbing them and that SO long as 1t Is kept
up they will be more and more out Of pocket.
30 they will blame the men who are RESPONSE
Bile for It and It IL mighty little consideration
that tho strikers will get from them.
or the mines that will probably shut down
IN tho morning. thirty are In the Wyoming
Valley and in the I'm ediate Vicinity OF Wilkes
barre. They employ an average OF $50 men
each. or about 1900 NJ on. The outlook lie not
enjoyed by the people around here who are
not engaged In mining. Some OF the other
mines are at Scranton. and the rest OF the
sixty are spread along the line Of the road.
One Of the largest mine operators In Scranton
was seen to-day in the office Of Superintend-
ent Essor OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad here.
He WAS here to get the company's side of
the story and to see II he could not do
something toward settling the strike. He
said that all the other big operators along the
line OF the road would use their influence In
the Same direction. and that they proposed to
be fair In the matter and would support which,
ever side they found to be right As far as
they had gone they thought that the men were
A,.A 10 -Ns- l.,II. tn..z -.
found that the position Of the men was iusti-
fed. they would use all their influence to have
their demands granted.
The strike situation to-day. leaving out the
event OF the collieries shutting down. Is worse
than 1t was yesterday. The men are bit dis
Outraged because their best efforts have not
succeeded In tying the road completely up.
The railroad officials are a bit discouraged be-
cause the road is tied more successfully to-day
than 1t was yesterday. There Is no denying
the fact that for the third day OF strike this
Is the most effectual tie-up that tho country
has seen. Not freight or q coal car has
moved except on the Hazelton division. The
railroad officials say their passenger trains
are running. but. with due respect to their
staten ent, II must be said that their passen-
gers don't believe 1t.
The SUN correspondent was at the station at
o'clock this afternoon when train from the
along the line There was one man from
Philadelphia He said he had started from
that peaceful city at o'clock In the morning.
and that after a m ost painfully slow journey
he had reached Bethlehem. where his
train should have connected with a main
line train from New York. Inquiries at
the telegraph office elected the fact that
that the train had not yet reached Newark.
eight miles from New York. After a long wait.
Nha In nnN NJ n aufp haA fha
railroad officials made up another train that
got along as far as Mauch Chunk. Passengers
were found waiting there who had started
from Allentown at 1920 o'clock in the morn
Ing One OF the Allentown passengers was a
WiIkesbarre dentist. and he said:
"Inever saw ANYTHING like IT: we started out
with bright prospects and a green fireman.
curse him. We ran about twenty miles going
slower and and slower all the time. and fin ally
stopped. Altogether We piled out of the cars
with visions Of train robbers or gangs OF strlk-
ers piling ties fourteen feet high on the track.
There wasn't anybody In sight but the fireman
aud the engineer. and the engineer was say
ing things to the nreman. That Official had
permitted his tire to get down so that we were
short OF steam. Well. We stood around
. In the cold awhile and waited until
steam was got up again and then We started.
1T wasn't long before We began to go slower
and slower again. and then We can to another
stop. We found that that blooming fireman
had let the steam run down again. We made
the best oft until We got a fresh supply OF
steam. then We got along few miles further
and the same thing happened a gain. And 1t hap
psned fourth time before NO reached Mauch
Chunk. There the officials said We had lost so
much time that We would have to wait for the
train from Bethlehem. which was coming and
We waited. Our train was abandoned and We
came in on this. Strange. though. everywhere
We stopped We were told that trains were run
ming all right"
There was one train abandoned on the Wyo-
ming division OF the road to-day. That was
No ~. which sholld have left Wilkesbarrs at
7;l0. After promising faithfully to be on
hand the engineer aad his fireman failed TO
show up. and no engineer could be found TO
tase out the train before the regular up train
due at $40 o'clock arrived. The passen.
gers were sent awaT on that aud the
7:l0 was knocked OF the schedule. Su-