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Complete Idleness

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
January
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Readinq, .Pa, Jan. 11.- Not a single colUery, either owned by the Reading Ilailroad Company or by individuáis, were at work yesterday. There waa a total suspension of mining everywhere. The strikers re very firm and claim that they are now in a position to díctate terms. Prominent Reading officials said that if the minera would drop the cause of the striking railroaders Mr. Corbin would treat with them, but he wlll never consent to the re-employment of his old hands who have been discharged. The miners say they will not forsake their brethren on the railroad, and the breach is apparently growing wider daily. The Reading officials are not aa cheerful as they were a week ago. They did not think it possible that the minera would turn out so solidly. It is one of the most complete strikes on record. That o 1875 was nothing to compare with it Sunday's shipnients coinpleuely exhaustec the stock of coal on hand and no more can be shipped until it is mined, either at indi vidual or Reading Company collieries. In the meantime furnacemen and others are finding the ir supply growing lesa every day, with no prospect of getting any new stock. Chairman Lee said Monday: "I feel tha we have this strike in our own hands. All of the Reading Ilailroad Company's col lieries are practically idle. The miners o the Wyoming región have not been callei upon to strike, and will not be." Manager McLeod says that he is informe that five collieries are working. The men have great hope6 from the result of the coming meeting of business men's committees with the offlcers of the Reading. It, is declared by the managers of the strike that all the mines whose product goes over the Reading must shut down. The miner at the individual mines, while in sympathy with the railroaders, are not at all unanimous in their approval of this move. They are willing to contribute to help the strikers, but obiect to themselves striking when their demands have been granted. Whether they will yield to presBure and quit work remains to be aeen. The City Councll Monday uight appointed a committee to wait upon President Corbin and urge him to submit the questions at issue to arbitration at once to save nnancial disaster to Reading's business. Readimg, Pa., Jan. 11. - At no time since the inauguration of the Schuylkill miners' strike have the men been more thorough masters of the situation than now. Every one of the forty-four Reading Company's collieries is closed. Only a few of the individual collieries were worked yesterday. They did not turn out more than 125 cars of coal. The miners have assumed a more positive stand than ever before and at meetings held all over the región yesterday it was decided not to go to work, even if the 8 per cent advance was granted, unless the 1,000 or more non-union railroad men - mostly engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductora, all recently employed - are discharged and all the Knighta dismissed during the recent railroad trouble are taken back. The miners will likewise refuse to work if non-union men haul the coal they turn out. Next Saturday tíe company will pay its miners for the two weeks ending with December 31, so the men do not yet feel the effects of the strike. In a conversation with three stockholders of the Eeading road President Corbin is reported as saying that no compromJse would be made with ttie miners, and that they could stay out a long as they liked. A committee of Shenandoah business men who telegraphed asking him if he would see them received no answer.

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