Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-12-19
HAVE A NEW PLAN.
Labor Evolves Scheme to
Smash Things.
MONEY TO BE MADE VERY SCARCE

And a Financial Crisis Precipitated il Bust
ness Does Not 'Jine Drives with Trade
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the Scheme-Quite
Sensation in the Chicago Concession
hatter-Some Language More Forcible
Than Polite-St Clair Exonerated-The
Federation Concludes Its Labors.
CINCINNATI, Dec ia movement is on
foot in this city which will cause a stir
among the wage earners and business men
OF the country when the details are made
public. The scheme is being discussed
quietly, and data are being gathered by
few leading trades unionists No one but
trusted members of organized labor have
been admitted to the conclave. The pro-
motors did not meet with much encourage
nent at first, but the idea has steadily
gained ground and now hundreds of wol k
tngmen are among its supporters, eager for
chance to give it trial.
VIII Contract the Currency.
The movement is designed to prevent a
repetition of the disasters which followed
closely upon the lockout at Homestead,
the Buffalo railroad strike and the miners
strikes in Tennessee and Idaho. 1t is pro
posed that when a strike becomes necessary
or lockout is precipitated by a corpora
ton against unionists a general order shall
be promulgated calling upon every union
man in the country to withhold from cir
culation all funds that he may possess or
control, so As to cause a stringency in the
money market, and thus compel the bust
ness men of the United States to bring
70 hoe A.
having strike on its hands that it will be
forced to yield to the demands of its e.
ployes OF show a disposition to settle the
differences between them.
What Trade Unionist Said.
The plan, when put in operation, will he
far-reaching, and the effect, it is claimed.
will be felt in every branch of trade through
out the land. said trade unionist on the
subject: Heretofore when a big strike or
lockout has been inaugurated we have
found ourselves on the outside of the shops
or works, idle, and without an income, CON
suming our savings or subssting on strike
benefits or starving. Under the proposed
plan we will be at work earning wages
We Will withdraw our savings from build
ing associations, banks, and other like in
stitutions and hoard our current wages.
The large funds of the various international
and national bodies will be Withdrawn with
the other money.
Think they Can Smash Things.
ave are informed that the business of
this country is transacted on a money cir
culation, in coin and paper of about $40
per capita, and taking everything into
consideration we think we can smash things
more successfully this way than by anv
strike or boycott. ! don't think the militia
would be of much avail in such state of
affairs. Another thing: If a financial
crash should be precipitated on US our saw
ings will be safer in our own pockets than
In any savings or banking institution
"Of what benefit will this be to the
trades unionist VIII not the hard times
consequent on financial crisis be felt
more by them than by the richj"
Will BE the Moneyed Men.
@Not necessarily. Heretofore when a few
spectators have cOrnered the money and
q crisis was precipitated the wage earners
have been caught without any money in
their possession and the failures of banks
and savings institutions have absorbed
their hoardings. This time we will be
moneyed men and will be enabled through
joint stock companies to become owners
of factories, shops, etc. Who knows but
what we will be able to convert the
bullionists to the tenets of the greenback
faith? believe the scheme is well worth
the trial