Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-06
LOST BY TIE LOCKOUT.
In Addition to the Loss of Several Lives,
tho Homestead Strike Has Cost Abeut |
41.OO0. 0.OOO-Bergmann bound Over.

IN Auuitfon TO the Loss OF several Liven,
tho Homestead Strike Has Cost Abeus
$1,000, o,ooO-BerRmann Bound Over.
PITrsBuReH, Pa, July 3O.-Tho great
lockout at Homestead is just one month
old and has already cost over 81, 900, 900,
besides the sacrifice of a half
.core of human lives and seri-
GUS injuries to many times that
number. OF the loss in cash the
military has cost in round fg-
ures S320,000, the workmen have lost
in wages $3.50, 900 and the Carnegie com
pany has lost and spent as much more
In getting new worlmen. The work.
men at Beaver Falls, Duquesne and
the Union mills in Pittsburgh have
lost about $4,000 in wages by their
sympathy strike and the firm is
out 100000 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
nation for the congressional investiga-
tions. Another item of no mean sig
nificance is the loss to workmen and
manufacturers in plants indirectly af-
fected which have been forced to close
down for want of material.
The locked-out workmen have not as
yet been deprived of any of the neces-
saries of life, and if the fight should
last several weeks yet there is no dan
ger of the workmen's families coming
to actual want. Subscriptions have
been coming in literally, and the relief
work has been carried on judiciously
and well. Every day people come
to Amalgamated headquarters and
receive orders for groceries and provis-
| ions. The funds already collected will
hold out for some time, and none of the
men are in fear of suffering from want
of plenty to eat. The people who are
receiving aid are principally those who
received Sl.40 day, the cheap laborers
who left their positions out of sympa-
! thy for the members of the Amalga.
mated association.
The second month opens rather dis
! couragingly so far as the loclled-out
men are concerned, though they do not
! in the slightest admit it, and express as
| great confidence in ultimate victory as
ever. On the Goth of June, 1000 men
! having been locked out, 1900 others
struck out of sympathy and only few
watchmcn were left around the plant.
| To-day there about 725 men in the mill
! and the firm claims it has quantity of
, beams ready for shipment.
The Homestead strikers claim that
they are still confident of victory, but
! the fact remains that the company now
/ has about 725 men in the mills. So far
the strikers relief committee has been
! able to take care of the unemployed,
but the merchants in the town are be-
ginning to be embarrassed by the
strike. Long credits are pressing them
to the wall, and grocery store has
been closed by n constable.
Alexander Bergmann, the anarchist
who attempted to assassinate IL. C.
Fricll, was given n hearing in the pri-
vate office of the Jail Friday afternoon
and held for trial at the September
sessions in $4,000 bail. The only
witnesses were Vice Chairman Leish-
man, who was with Mr.. Frick at
the time, and David Forney, the ele-
vator boy. Bergman said it was not
true that he tried to shoot Mr.. Leish-
man. Il did not want to touch anyone
but Frick; / meant to kill him." Dur
ing the hearing Bergmanp was remark.
ably cool and smoked constantly at a
cigarette. 1t is stated that in New York
the reds" are raising fund to Cefend
Bergman.