The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-07-30
COST OF The FIGHT.
Over a Million Said to be Lost to
the Contestants.
NO STARVATION AT HOMESTEAD.

The First Months Struggle Between
Employer and Employe--The Out
look Said not to be Encouraging
for the strikers-The New Work.
men Not Prisoners.
PnTsBURa, Pa, July 80.--The great
lockout Homestead is just one month
OLD, and has already cost over 81 900, 900,
besides the sacrifice Of half score of
human lives and serious injuries to
many times that number. OF the loss
In cash the military has cost in round
figures $500, 200, the workmen have lost
In wages $1u0,000, and the Carnegies
hsye spent and lost as much more in
getting new worlsmen.
The workmen at Beaver Falls, Du-
quesne and the Union mills in Pitts
burg have lostj about 500, 900 in wages
by their sympathetic strike, and the
firm is out 10000 by the idleness of
these plants. Added to this will be the
county expenses for deputy sheriffs and
murder trials, the expense to the city
for hunting anarchists and to the ma
tfon for the congressional investigations.
Another item of no mean significance is
The loss to workmen and manufacturers
N plants indirectly affected which have
been forced to shut down for want of
material.
No Want at Homestead.
The locked out VOL kmen have not as
yet been deprived of any of the neces-
saries of life, and II the fight should last
several weeks yet there is no danger of
the workmen's families coming to actual
want. Subscriptions have been coming
In literally and the relief work has been
st.lt tuso nd wall
day people come to the Amalgamated
Headquarters and receive orders for
groceries and provisions. The funds al
ready collected will hold out for some
time, and no new men are in fear of
suffering from want of plenty to eat
The people who are receiving aid are
principally those who received 81 40 per
day, the cheap laborers who left their
positions out Of sympathy for the MEM
beys OF the Amalgainated Association.
The most significant thing found
.'among the effects of Bauer the Anarch-
ist, was red card in the shape of. q
book, that apparently was the "open
sesame to anarchist meetings, and wRS
held only by those in the inner circle.
Over the top Of the inner side was the
legend alarm Club" and the next
line was Certificate of Membership Of
Henry Bauer" II was signed by E.
were four rows of squares marked by
dotted lines. There were thirteen in
each line, which gave one for every
week In the year.
The book also contained letters from
August Spies, Nina Van Zandt, Herr
Most land other anarchists. Among
the pictures was one which was identi-
fed as that of the man seen with Berk-
man on Saturday.
Efeots of the Lockout.
The second month of the great Home
stead strike opens rather discouragingly,
a 20 far as the locked out men are con-
4 cerned, though they do not in the slight
est admit It, and express as great con-
9idence In ultimate victory as ever. On
June 30, 1900 men having been locked
0ut, 1900 others struck out of sympathy
Yf.7a few watchman were left
'Ehe plant. ' Today there are
about Tg6 men in the mill and the firm
claims it has quantity of beams ready
for shipment. The locked out men have
no access 10 the non unionists TO endeayoi
10 induce them TO come out, while daily
the firm is filing vacancies and training
new meu for the work.
Meanwhile the effects OF the lockout
are being felt in the town. Yesterday
constable closed a grocery store, tht
0wner concluding to go out of busines,
owing to his inability to carry on an ex
tensiye credit business. A number o.
merchants, while in sympathy with the
locked out men are deciding upon d
plan whereby they will not give credit
but will sell at absolute cost to all looked
ont men.
! The relief committee which ha'
: charge of all poorer paid labor meets al
demands upon it, though daily the Ion,
line OF persons asking assistance grow
larger.
Threatening Non-Union Men.
The non-union men are beginning t,
receive an astonishing number of threat
sning letters. The following is a sam
pie:
"HoMEsTEAD, July Ha9.-Notice-Al
non-union men desiring to leave Car
negie's works will be provided for b.
the union men of Homestead. But al
who stay at work will seek their God
All are being spotted. Beware"
The firm has told the men that the
can leave il they wish according to tn
statement of Mr.. H. M. Curry. H
added: .'None are afraid, though th
story of the men being prisoners is III
true. None are desirons of leaving"