New-York tribune., 1877-07-23
GOVERNMENT MEASURES.
MOVEMENT OF TROOPS
PROPERTY N WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE
GUARDED-A CALL FOR AND FROM PENNsfL~
v.NUA-CAUISEI DISCUSSION.

PROPERTY N WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE
GUARDED-A CALL FOR AND FROM PENNsYL-
vANIA-CABINEr DISCUSSION.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSEI
WASHINGTON, July 22.-The popular interest in
the labor war has been very great i'll Washington
Yesterday and to-day. Crowds of people have sur
rounded the telegraph offices at which bulletins
from Plttsburg and Baltimore have been posted
and the discussion of the events which have
occurred especially at Pitsburg has at times been
very excited. Notwithstanding the excesses of
which the mob in Pittsburg have been guilty last
night and to-day, and the fact that the people of
Washington do not generally approve Of the
wanton destruction of property which has taken
place it is very evident by the character OF the talk
which is heard in all public places that the popular
svmpatby is largely with the strikers upon the rail-
roads and with the wOrknmen who have
ioined them. The indignation against the rail-
road companies for what seems to be considered
unfair treatment OF their help has been very
great even among q class of people Ill WASH
ington who receiving good salaries, ana who'
therefore. have not themselves felt the pinching
of the hard times Several labor organizations of the
District held meetings last evening and to-day and
passed resolutions expressing sympathy with the
strikers declaring that they should be sus-
tanned by all legitimate means, and express
the hope that the Worklngmen VIII suc-
coed. to use the words Of Typographical Union
No. 1O1, " In their great efforts TO break down the
barrier now sought TO be erected by capital In
order that labor may be degraded aud crushed"
Their Union also condemned the resolutions
passed by the Labor League on Friday,
expressing dsapproyal of the means resorted TO by
the strikers. The leaders of this League are
John Pope Hodnatt and Michael scanlan' "a cierh
in the Treasury Department, and the organ
ization contains great number OF coioie'i
mon. Resolutions of this kind it is reported
have also been PASSED by the Bookblnders Associ-
alton Of this CITY, The latter s said to have voted
to contribute funds TO sustain the strikers III Bati-
more and neither society, III Its resoiuuohs Sai"
ANYTHING condemnatory of the unlawful means re-
sorted to by the wOrkingmen.
Some solicude for the safety of public property In
Washington has been expressed yesterday and to-day
but il WAS entirely groundlcss. In spite OF the popular
svmpatby with the strikers already referred tothere
is in Washin gton no lawless element to be cared.
Persons having the best means of information assert
tbotthere are not more than 900 rough characters
IN Washington to-day, and that the number of
workiupnen who are unemployed is smaller
i'm proportion to the POPULATION thal
almost anywhere else IN tie country
this il due TO the fact that great numbers OF laborers
have recently obtained work III the Navy Yard and
upon the streets, many of which are being repaved,
and that the amount of building now In progress III
Washington is probably greater than Iii any other
cty of equal size. Besides this the con-
tractors Oh the the State Department buildings