The sun., 1900-10-06
READING REGION ALL TIED UP.
The North franklin Mine shut Down Because
the Men wish 90 Avert Trouble.

Pottsylle, Pa, oct 5--The strike lend
ers finished up their work In tho Schnyl-
kill coal regions to-day, and all OF the
Reading company's thirty-nne colleries are
now tied up, and 5000 tons OF coal dally are
shut out Of the market and about s5O'p IN
wages kept out of the pockets Of miners, breaker
boys, trainmen and shop hands every day. In
the entire anthracite regions possibly sl5oOTD
in wages is lost daily. The last OF the headlhg
companys collleries. the North Franklin at
Treyorton, closed finally about noon. when
the miners there heard Of the strikers marching
on them they held n meeting and To avert
bloodshed they resolved to quit They wanted
to get no one in trouble and were tired Of being
guarded by armed deputies. Not enough men
were in the collicry to-day to run II ana II was
closed until after tho strike is over
The strike leaders will now pay attention To the
individual coreries near Tamaqua still at work.
They arc these of Mitchell h Shepp, Dunkett-
berger 4 Co. and Greenwood, operated by
Beddall 4 Co. These employ about 800 men
and boys. With tho exception OF one collierv
Of the Iehigh Coal and Navigation Company
at Coaldale and three near TamaQua all are out
In Schuylkill county. The strikers say these
will be easy
More than nfty strike leaders and emissaries left
this afternoon for ansf RI and Summit lilll. TO
do missionary work among the miners SIN a'
working tho ton colierics Of the l.ehigh Naviga-
tion Company In Panther Valley, They yarecohn-
dent OF inducing ail tne l9Sn 10 Hur Ju,[ ,r.o to
leader and his stan was especially Instructed
to prevent violence, but the miners VINO want
TO work have great fear oi the eNclteu eIlES
nf foreigners with clubs and stones when they
come i'm a body 10 ask them not to work. ~
there Is any such violent deinonstTatloi u VIII VIII
be- from the Shenandoah or Ashiand dlSIlo.
tphprp (tJbIp : troops nrp lpli FROM
Lan.Cord to Mauch Chunk il eight miles, where
these mines are situated.
80 hard coal was shipped % udewater to-
day Three weeks ARo 4Oc0O tons were sent
down daily coal sales agents all over the
Reading clmpany's territory have been or
dcred 10 sell no coal The small amount now
on hand will be reserved 10 IN old oicorS ana
for imperative emergencieS A dozen uarses
have been scnt to Norfolk and other Baltimore
and Ohio places to load with bituHlinous coal
Several places in the SChuklklll district In
Guiding Ashland have been heard from to
night indicating that the miners are ready
to resume under the Reading conpany's last
notice tu its employees
will be made at Shenandoah to-morrow after
noon, where State trOoIs are stlIl IN camp
President Mitchell Of the m,ed MinS dnyoH Mo55- 5
dresses Fifty extra deputies were SEM 20
1reverton Tonight To guard the North frank
| lin CnllirrV The plnT lONe,s Of the feilsyl-
vania Railroad shoTs at Mount Carbon have been
ordered to work only five hours day until
after the strike This order will likely be fol-
lowed by others Of similar character There
was 10 have been a big meeting Of Panther
Creek miners tonight at lansi"rd, but the
men remained away. The : 600 miners received
their nav went nome and remained there.
Ail is QUIET there tonight and the men declare
they viii keep at work. They are working
six ten-hour days per week. The lehigh toa
and NaVgationN Company has notified them
that II will grant any increase Of wages and
make any other concessions made by me blR
coal companies where men are now on strlhe'