The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-05-15

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whoever would buy. A crowd of ruff
fans came out of a nelghboring factory,
and hustled and annoyed the man, but
did not do him any serious injury, hop
ing to frighten him away, but they had
evidently caught Tartar, who intended
TO stay; so on the second day coward
ly crowd assaulted the unfortunate man,
who Jared very badly at their hands, and
the final result was, that the rascals
were arrested, and 1t is to be hoped will
be severely punished.
The danger that threatened us so seri-
ously last week is gradually subsiding,
and some of the men who were on tile
strike are returning to work. The great
body of the workmen begin to realize
that they were made tools of, by lot
of designing men who were anxious to
enrich themselves at the expense Of
their deluded dupes. While the poor
fellows who struck when they were told
were starving with their families unable
to get mouthful of food, these district
leaders were riding about in carriages
kept at an expense Of eight or ten dol
lars day, with their pockets stuffed
full OF greenbacks, contributed by the
faithful to sustain the strike. 1t h 8
been q serious drawback TO business !;
sugar which went up three cents last
week on account of the strike has risen
to seven cents this week, and the con-
sequence is that the refincrs have made
more by the strike than they could pro-
badly have done by running their works,
and in the meantime the strikers have
been reduced almost to starvation.
Building has nearly stopped in New
York and Brooklyn, and the wonderful
activity Of few weeks ago has been
succeeded by stagnation, which is
truly appalling. The men on the strike
with some few exceptions have behaved
admirably, and these exceptions have
received condign punishment. Several
men were fined small sums, and put
under bonds for calling the new drivers
and conductors insulting names, and
one driver of cross-town car was sent
to the Penitentiary for six months for
obstructing Third Avenue car. Mean
while manifesto has been issued by
the Executive Committee of the strik-
ers, cautioning against acts of violence,
and this course has done more to regain
the sympathy of the people for the
strikers, than anything else they could
have done. There is right and a
wrong on both sides. The drivers and
conductors on all of cur horse railroads
were fearfully overworked, and miser-
ably paid for the labor they performed.
Here are thousands of well paid
mechanics striking for eight hours, and
these poor fellows were compelled tc
work sixteen hours day rain or shine
in the summers heat and the winter.
frost and snow; unceasing, never end
ing toll for starvation wages. Ther
comes an iron system of eXactions ant
fines, not 10 mention the inciviitY anC
often brutality of passengers, whc
looked on these unfortunate men a.
vehicles on which to exhaust thei
abuse. Lastly was the villainons AM
degrading system of spoilers and spies
and altogether it seemed too much of
load for human nature to bear. Th
street car drivers and conductors o
: New York may not be saints, but tha
: they are not devils is no fault of thei
: employers. The men were goaded {
desperation by poor living and har
work and poor pay, and the only aston
ishing thing about it is, that they di
not act much worse than they did. NOV
, that reason is returning and violence
: disclaiined, they have the best wishes G
every humane man and woman for thci
I success. They ask for twelve hour
J work. Heaven knows that is enoug
= of such work as they do, for any mcrti
man, and all things considered their dC
mand for pay is just and moderate.
hope and trust they may get it. The
never can get itby the miserable systcI
of boycotting and violence, and ma
treating the men who differ from then
Johann Most, the pestilcntial anarcl
4 ist, has fed the city to avoid the poss
! blities OF the Penitentiary. For month
he has been counselling his followers I
= use fire, poison, dynamite, the swor,
the dagger, the bayOnot, any means {
A destruction, TO strike at capital and d,
troy il. At a recent meeting, he e,
: hibited an old musket, and called o
: his followers to use it, The latest rev.
= lation of this notorious rascal is, tn;
q his followers have banded together fC
the purpose of defrauding the insuranC
o companies, and prominent city JON
q nal has given long list of incendiai
4 fires occurring in houses occupied L
. anarchists, and the conclusions draw
=, are fearful 10 contemplate.
q These foreign incendiaries who ha,
t ing escaped the gallows in their ow
Y country have sought and received She
;. ter of our flag--secm to think that Ill
n erly means license for every kind {
/ villainy. 1t is mostly men of this cla'
a who have been at the bottom of OF
!, most serious labor disturbances, and NJ
d the men who have honestly participate
II in the strike. While we have had qui
C a lively time, and one day of absolut
n riot, at no time has it been beyond Il
IS control of the police; and we are no
IS thanking our lucky stars that we do n
t, live in Chicago.
Ie The system of electing our PoliC
Ie Justices is disgrace to our c; vilzatiol
is These men, on whom in great measu
al danan1s tho aflp,inis afiop of tho Ia ~