Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-11
AS FIRM AS EVER.
The Stand Being Made by the
Striking Coke. workers.
Foreigners Arriving in the Region
in Great Numbers.
Accommodations Inadequate to
Shelter Them.

Labor Leaders Continue to Promise the
Strikers Money Which is Not Forth
coming--Steadfastness of the Foreign
Element in the Struggle-Thc Rail-
roads Great Losers by the strike--1Tany
Iron Furnaces Idle on Account of the
inefficient supply of Coke.
PlTTsBURG, May 11.-Foreigners are
coming into the coke region in bulk,
and, as an operator says he can turn
5000 men into the region i'll twenty-four
hours, but cannot shelter them.
Great CaImness.
A popularity about all this wholesale
importation is that the strikers are as
firm and unbroken as ever, and when
directed to by the sheriff, move calmly
out of their houses, to roost on fences,
or gather in huddle to watch the i'm
ported men move into the houses they
have so recently vacated Their calm
ness may be a confidence of ultimate
victory, but it savors more Of the apathy
of despair.
Money Promised.
Labor officials say there will be a
plentiful supply of money and tents for
the most needy, but this they have been
promising for weeks. 1t is particularly
noted that the aid pledged from the
Federation of Labor has not yet made
its appearance, and unless it soon comes
it will be everlastingly too late.
Foreigners Steadfastness.
Another thing worth observing is the
action of the Hungarians, Poles and
Germans, hitherto despised especially
the former) by labor organizations as be-
ing unreliable and dangerous. The for
eign element, especially, has made
record i'll the present strike as being
honest, patient, attentive and faithful to
a man, too faithful for their own good
as they have been obliged to bear the
onus of the strike. Ninety mine of the
evicted out of 100 are foreigners, and
every man thus far killed III the region
was of other than American birth.
Exceptions may be taken to this,
owing to reports that the foreign element
is to blame for the frequent riots in the
regions.
This may be answered by the plain
statement that of eleven men killed at
Morewood and twenty-five wounded,
one killed at Adelaide, and others
wounded throughout the region, all
were foreign strikers, and not a deputy
or guard has been hurt with the excep-
ton of scratch ON the finger or face in
flicted either by accident or woman.
One can draw conclusions from the
above as to which side is the more patient
and self-contained.
Losing Ground Daily.
All this does not change the fact that
the strikers are losing ground daily,
Il poor showing in coke shipments. Ont
side of several pacific evictions, and one
occasion where Il blackleg was obliged
to quit work by the strikers, all was
serene Friday, as activity was displayed
in another line. Leaders and men are
preparing for a vigorous campaign be-
tween this and Monday, and will en-
deavor to talk with every worker. either
by mass meetings or individually, in
order to induce them to stop work The
effect of thr5 concerted move will be
known Monday. and it is expected to
produce eXcellentre5ults for the strikers, |
as foreigners seem willing enough to !
quit work when informed of the situa- |
ton, but are SO closely guarded it is !
almost impossible for the strikers to
reach them.
The last of the deputies who killed the |
strikers at Morewood was brought back |
into the region Friday. He is named |
Gilbert and had suddenly left for
Somerset county, where he was captured
by detective.
White Caps.