Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-04
dealt With BY and the sympathy they receive

oeslt With BY and the sympathy they receive
from one OF the great establishments which
" projected for the sake of labor;
flttsburgh. April 20.-When the Carnegie Steel
WORKS 1t Braddock start up on Monday there viii
% 100 armed guards on hand to prevent siy in
reference by strikers with the non-union men
VINO return to their places. The manager, Capt
Jones completed all ARRANGEMENTS win the
eherln this afternoon. WnIe no actual violence
10 feared, it 10 deemed best to adopt these meas
ures The Robinson House, vacated hotel at
braddock avenue and Thirteenth street, has been
rented by the firm This will be fitted up with
cots for the use Of the employees The firm to-
day appointed Corbin Francis to have charge Of
inc house. and will employ cooks tomorrow.
Inc guards will escort the men 10 work from the
hotel every day. Everything indicates Mr.. Car.
tho strikers
Ali last night tho bosses Of the different do
partments were making their rounds among their
Former men and requesting them to return. In
response to thus call about two hundred men
turned out 10 day and are now At work.
The report that four hundred men were at
WORK to-day4s denied by Captain JoneA, though
ne says he can have that many the moment hs
Calls them. The Knights Of Labor are as firm
~ ever, and threaten 10 have all OF Mr.. Carne-
gies Pittsburgh mills called If the Edgar Tbomp-
son Is started with non-union men. At their
meeting last night the following circular was
prepared, and is to day posted on every prom
fnent corner Of the town:
"All persons formerly employed ct she Edgar
Thompson works and furnaces are requested 10
stay away from there until the difficulty between
en0m and the company Is settled"
captain Jones was asked to-day whether one
thousand new mon were TO be brought from New
York Philadelphia and Johnstown. He replied,
Il DO not know what Mr Carnegie may have done
personally. but have made no special effort to
bring men from other cities. 1t is not necessary,
because the news that our big steel works are
ABOUT to start up Is known al over the country
and stsel-workers will gather q, Braddock from
al points OF the compass by the hundreds.
large number Of these may come from Johns
town. for all know. There is one thing certain
there Will not DO any trouble about securing any
number Of competent men,"
MIR. Carnegie, l am informed, has q mag
nificent castle in Scotland. l believe, also,
that Mr.. Blaine, the late Republican candi-
date for President, had very recently en-
Joyed . somewhat protracted stay with this
gentleman ct his Scotland home when he
Illuminated his protective platform in the
professed interest of labor last winter in the
shape OF an interview Ga the subject Of the
Presidents message.
Again, Mr.. Chairman, ell this discussion
about the benefit Of the tariff to labor has
been confined to those classes of laborors
commonly known as mechanics and those
who work In the mines and in tho various
workshops. The great millions in the fields
and upon the plantations not only in the West
and Northwest, but in the South, are for
gotten in this great race for profit and for
wealth. In order to shut out foreign goods,
to enhance the price Of American goods, you
will keep upon the American farmer, North
and South, tax Of IS or s. for each head
OF family, producing = surplus over and
above that which he pays for the legitimate
expenses Of the Government and also the
four or I've times that amount which, by
reason of the prohibitory tariff, he con-
tributes to the manufacturers. 1t Is not the
amount which II taken by the Government,
and which it needs, Of which he complains
for, repeat, it 10 tho four or five times that
amount which he il compelled 70 pay from
day to day upon the necessariss Of life, and
which goes into the pockets Of the mAnufac-