The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-20
RAILROAD OFFICE CORPS
ARE SUSPENDED
Ontario and Western Company Sends
Home Its Clerks at Mayfield Yard
Unit! Further Notice-The d. & e..
to Do Likewise-Merchants Will
Not Refuse Credit During the
Strike.

Not Refuse Credit During the
Strike.
The numerous offices of the Ontario
and Western company at May1ield yard
arc all but deserted. OF all the force
there, none is at work but the heads or
departments, perhaps half-dozen.
The enforced vacation took place yes
terday, when the clerks were notified
that there would be no work for them
until further notice. While the notice
was depressing, it was not a surprise.
What work remained after the strike
was declared was cleared away on Sat
urday AS no trains are moving on the
road, no coal being transported, all the
collieries, washeries, etc, being closed,
there is nothing to engage the clerks.
Hence their suspension.
The coal inspectors of the company
are included in the order, as there is
no effort being made to operate even
the several washeries which the On
taro and Western controls between
here and Scranton.
1t might be said that only Il handful
OF men are at work on this division of
the Ontario and Western. AS the road
Is pTdctlCiiHy tltl ul', Lew cars iIlONili}o
and engines being lined up in the yard,
the shop hands at Mayfield yard have
been laid off. In all, clerks, shop hands
and trainmen, there are over 200 men
out OF work on the. Ontario and West
ern.
The Erie has laid off its office help.
This order, however, does not affect so
many as the Ontario and Western.
ln Ial. T,E I,. -
issued a suspension order, but it is
looked for almost any day this week.
The clerks are now getting their work
up to date, which will take only few
days. After this, there will be nothing
to do, save for some of the clerks in
the freight office, and the company will
be certain not to carry any unemployed
help on it's pay rolls. During the last
coal strike, the Delaware and Hudson
clerks were not suspended, but those
in the Ontario and Western offices We're.
The work in the repair shops of the
Delaware and Hudson is necessarily
slackenng, with the consequence that
an order has been issued laying the
employees off for the last three days OF
this week. 1t is not known whether the
suspension will be made indefinite.
The enforced idleness of the several
hundred men in Carbondale and the
fear that it may continue for long
period, has stirred them to seek en-
ployment in other fields beyond the in
1uence of the anthracite strike. Since,
and even before, the strike numerous
young men began casting about for ap-
pointments that would provide for them
in the event of the blight OF a strike in
this region. Some have been success
full and If the prospects of a prolonged
lockout grow, there is likely to be a
lively exodus of young Carbondale men,
appreciably greater than after the
abandonment OF the gravity road of
the Delaware and Hudson.
&" Merchants viii Give Credit.
The merchants OF Carbondale will not
cease giving credit to their customers
during the strike, unless the jobbers
should refuse to allow credit for what
goods, the. merchants buy.
: THIS NeS, decided at, the meeting of
the alfES&isllts,. >ProtsGtiYe. association,
<pesial kY sGstled to- consider the matter.
XlH . question was thoroughly can
vassed, and the united sentiment was
that the aerchants- continue. during the
strike as before, namely, to give credit
to whomeyer in their Judgment. was en-
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