Identifier: strikerscommunis00pink (find matches)
Title: Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884 Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 Tramps
Publisher: New York, G. W. Carleton & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, threatening peaceful work-ingmen like themselves. They then returned to the city,marching through the streets with bands of music, insultingeverybody upon the streets, stoning any and every partythat might happen to arouse their ire, and in every otherway possible endeavoring to provoke a conflict with thecitizens and the troops. But no further notable trouble occurred. Among themany interesting features of the strike in the vicinity ofWilkesbar)*e was the constant forcing of men, who wei-ewilling to work, from the mines. Great crowds of ruffians,liundreds of wdioni had never done a days honest work intheir lives, armed with pistols, bludgeons, and knives,would proceed to a shaft, and then, in Falstaffian pomposity,pass resolutions of condemnation upon mine-owners, rail-road companies, and all capitalists, when they would ap-point a committee to descend the shaft and order thelaborers within the mine to discontinue work, on pain ofstopping the pumps and fans. Those at work well knew
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TROUBLES IN THE COAL REGIONS. 337 how much clanger lay in this threat, and all the efforts of themining bosses to keep them at work were of no avail. At Pljmouth, the strikers secured the re)3utation ofbeing more persistent and vituperative than at any otherpoint within the State of Pennsylvania, save at Pittsburg.Plymouth is situated just across the river from AVilkesbarre,and is the real center of the vast possessions of tlie Lehighand Wilkesbarre Coal Company, which is itself the prop-erty of the New Jersey Central Railroad Company. Tliecompany has in the surrounding Wyoming valley abouttwenty breakers, and eight tliousand miners are employed.These turbulent fellows give direction to public feeling onall questions concerning labor or other matters, and theresult was that when the excitement concerning the generaltroubles reached this region, every miner turned out, con-gregated at Plymouth, and, although they made no troubleill the town itself, its entire inhabitants beino- iu clos

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