Show STRIKE IN ANTHRACITE REGION Out of flftyfhe collieries In the Shamokln Mahanoy City Mount Carmel Car-mel and local districts only five are in operation Bituminous coal men In New York I continue to reap a harvest as a result re-sult of the strike The net advance in soft coal since last Friday averages about 50 cents a ton It is estimated that 1SOO trainmen In the coal service at Reading are Idle and many more will be thrown out oC employment Engines are now being I stored In the shops and roundhouses I Four hundred miners Monday night I marched from Centralia to Locustdale a distance oC four miles and held amass I a-mass meeting As a result the Pott colliery employing 2500 men Is Idle I Where thirtyfour of the thirtynine collieries operated by i tho Philadelphia und Reading Coal and Iron company were in operation a week ago thirteen were worKing yesterday three less than on Monday In New York the two qualities of coal known as pea and buckwheat which are now used for steam generating generat-ing purposes have Jumped up 1 a ton Pen coal now costs the consumer SI50 and buqkwheat 100 An employee at the Hammond colliery col-liery in the Ashland district is authority au-thority for the statement that not twentyfive of the SOO mineworkers there were members of the union when the strike was inaugurated but now at least 00 per cent belong Tho officials of the Cameron colliery col-liery one of the largest operations In Shamokln endeavored to start the works yesterday morning but no miners responded to the blowIng of the whistles A fruitless attempt was made to resume work at several other collieries A nonunion laborer employed In Lykens colliery was pelted with Htonca by a small party of strikers est es-t rda morning at Wlconslco while on his way to work He defended himself him-self Avlth a revolver and drove his assailants away without doing them any harm The coming of bituminous coal to several Scranton factories heretofore using anthracite is I stirring up the miners and representations thereon were telephoned to President Mitchell I at Hazleton What course he Avlll pursue l pur-sue is eagerly awaited ns well as the course which the railroad switchmen 1 and trainmen will take on the question of hauling of nonunion coal t |