Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-21
A Delay of Twenty Days.
ALL QUIET ON THE LEHIGH.
Eyes of Strikers and officials Are
Bent on Sayre.

BUFFALO, Nov. 2l.-A test Of strength
of the two parties in the struggle for the
control of the Lehigh Valley railroad is
expected to come today If the officials
dertake to move. freight as they assert
they will do before night IL the~condition
of things down the line is sufficiently en-
couraging to hold out any prospects of its
not being blockaded en- route.
At present all eyes are turned upon Sayre.
where the brunt of the battle is being
waged. If the situation there does not i'm
prove the Lehigh officials here will make
no move as it would not benefit them any
to add to the blockade there by sending out
freight from here even if they can get the
men to move it. The strikers are watching
Sayre with anxious eyes. the defeat of
the men there will mean the shifting of
the struggle to this and other terminal
points.
All of the parallel lines deny having re-
fused to handle freight offered by the Le-
high, or that they will refuse 1t. but no
instances are on record where the Lehigh
freight has been taken by these roads so
far.
Passenger trains will probably continue
to run today the same as usual.
A bitter fight seems to be Smoldering in
the local brotherhoodS. Those who do not
want to go out and forfeit their places are
called traitors by the other faction, and
serious trouble is likely to spring up in
their own circles from this very condition
of affairs.
The strikers have not manifested the first
sign of making trouble or doing any vio-
lence.
From Along the Line.
SHAMOKIN, Pa, Nov. 21.-The Lehigh
Company still refuse to accept freight at
this end.
TUNKIIANNOCK, Pa, Nov. 21.-Great
difficulty is experienced in making up trains
at the Coxton yard owing to the disappear
ance of all the coupling-pins.
Trains that move about the yard after
dark are uncoupled by some parties un-
known, and the pins disappear.
MAUCH CHUNK, Pa. Nov 21.-The
the strikers. A meeting OF brotherhood
men was held this morning, when it was
decided to remain firm.
EASTON, Pa. Nov. 2l.-Superintendent
Donnelly says that the new engineers en-
gagged by the road were being beseged con-
stantly by the strikers, who visit their
homes and aCcost them on the streets
making their life miserable. He says also
! that the strikers were going to the homes
of the engineers and frightening their
wives and families.
HAZLETON. Pa, Nov. 21.-With the ex-
ceptlon OF few passenger trains running
from one to three hours behind time no
traffic is being moved on this division of the
hehiSh valley road this morning. The
Stockton collieries We're obliged to shut
down.
NlLkESBARRE Pa Nov 2I-There is
no change in the situation this morning.
A mass meeting was held at which Presi-
deht Nllburs S letter of last night, notifying
the men to return to work this morning or
consider themselves discharged was com
pletely ignored by the strikers
GENEVA. y. Y, Nov. 2l-None of the
Lehigh Valley employees here have struck.
POTTSEl LILLE. Pa, Nov. 2I.-Fifteen Le-
high Valley tiremen went out on strike ar
Deiano this morning. This is the first break
on the coal branches and there are indica-
tions that more employees will nuit v,ork
within the next twelve hours
BETHLEHEM. Pa, Nov. 21-The strike
is more general this morning than Yesterday
and the wyoming division is tied up tight
No trouble is reported in New Jersey and ON
this, the Lehfgh division, freight and coal
train crews are today out, almost to a man
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21-The griev
ance committee of the men today received
dispatches from Sayre. Wilkesbarre. Mauch
Chunk, Buffalo and Easton which stotaI
that the non-uniOn men We're Joining the
strikers, and that the tie-up was becoming
more general.
PERTH AMBOY, n. J.. Nov. 2l.-The
yards in this city are practically deserted
the men remaining at their homes or at
tending the different meetings which are
being held.
JERSEY CITY, n. j., Nov. 21-As far as
this end of the Lehigh Valley strike is con-
cerned there was practically no change this
morning.
READING Pa, Nov. 21.-Inquiry among
the Reading companys employees in this
city who are out of employment shows
that only one man has volunteered to ac-
cept work on the Lehigh Valley road