Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-04
HAS COST A MILLION.
The First Month of the Lockout at
Homestead is Over.

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| Homestead is Over.
P1rTsBURG, Pa, July 29.-The great
| lockout at Homesteadlis one month old
to-day, and has already cost over ST.
| 600. 900, besides the sacrifice of half
a score of human lives and serious in
juries to many times that numDer OF
people. Of the loss in cash, the mill
tary has cost in round figures 1920, 900,
the workmen have lost in wages
$3.50, 900 and Carnegies have lost as much
more in getting new workmen. The
workmen at Beaver Falls, Duquesne
and the Union Mills in Pittsburg have
lost about $4,000 in wages by their
sympathy strike. Added to this will
be county expenses for deputy sheritfs
and murder trials, the expense to the
city of Pittsburg for hunting An
archists, and to the nation for the
congressional Investigations. Another
item of no mean significance is the loss
to workmen and manufacturers in
plants indirectly affected, which have
been forced to close for want of ma
terial. The locked-out workmen have
not as yet been deprived of any
of the necessaries of life, and
if the fight should last several
weeks there is no danger of the
mems families coming to total want.
Subscriptions have been coming in lib
erAe.v, and the relief work has been car
ried on we'll. Every day people come
to the Amalgamated room and receive
orders for provisions. The funds al
ready collected will hold out for some
time, and the men are not IN tear OF
suffering for plenty. to eat.
The second month of the strike opens
rather discouragingly, so far as the
locked-out men are concerned, though
they do not admit it. and express as
great confidence in ultimate victory as
ever. On the 10Th of June
1900 men having been locked
out, 1880 others struck out of SYM
pathy. and only few watchmen were
left around the plant. To-day there are
725 men in the mill and the firm claims
it has quantity of blooms ready for
shipment Meanwhile the effects of the
lock -out are being felt in the town. To-
day constable closed grocery store,
the proprietor having decided to 60 out
Of business, owing to his inability to
carry on an extensive credit business.
A number of merchants. while in SYM
pathy with the locked-out men, are
getting up plan whereby they will not
give creait, but will sell at cost to,,all the
men. The relief committee, which has
charge of all poorer paid laborers, has
many demands upon it, and the long
line of persons asking assistance grows
larger, The non-union men are begin
ming to receive an astonishing number
of threatening letters. The followingis
a sample.
HOMESTEAD. July 29.-All non-union
men desiring to leave Carnegie's works
will be provided for by the union men of
Homestead. But all who stay at work will
seek their God. All are being spotted.
Beware!
The firm has told the men that they
statement of H. M. Curry. He added:
"None are afraid though, and the story
of the men being prisoners is not true"
Anarchists will make an effort this
afternoon to get the men bailed out
who are in jail. Paul Eckert said they
could easily raise $4,000 to bail
the imprisoned Anarchists. There
are 500 Anarchists in Allegheny,
many of them small property holders,
he said, and they would take care of
their friends. Eckert stated further
that Prick had done more to help their
cause along than all the circu-
lars and tracts they could have
published. Her Most, he said
was a brave man, and the day would
come when he would be honored by all
the workingmen of the country. Mol
lick, the man arrested at Long Branch,
is still in Jail. He has Sc
cured Henry Meyer, prominent
attorney here, as counsel. All is quiet
to-day about Carnegie's city mills and at
qq ana II Beavel fas MI MI
we'll, is in good spirits, and his general
condition is satisfactory.