The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-24

nutting forward for NUMBER OF yoafs '"
son,,ol the will of employers of labor oy
| violence and physical force
| M NJ no consequence for the strikers az
Homestead 10 say that the perpetrator OF
the deed ia not one Of their number. Ills
act il the corollary and natural outcome OF
their plan of campaign, in which physical
/ forc. ia the watchword and violence is the
.o,, Their doctrine Is propaganda OF
/ .o~ro,ism Though not member OF the
labor organization at Homestead he Is De-
lever 10 oil the doctrines that they put
forth and sympathizer with all that they
40 10 mt their doctrines into force and ei-
feet His act in shooting Mr.. Frick 10 On
sc. ~ the sane kind and nature as their ac'
in taking forcible possession OF Mr.. Caf-
nseie's works and excluding his agents Dy
! force from occupation of them, differing
from their act in degree only, but ID no
sense Whatever In nature. He aimed AT IN
lawfully taking Mr.. Friok's life; they aimed
at unlawfully depriving Dir. Carnegie Oh ms
property. If they are TO be sustained ~
their attempt his cannot be condemned
The two acts go together hand in hand.
And things have come 70 pretty pass IN
this county, when a man is to DO assaS'i-
nated If he refuses 10 surrender bis own
property to an irresponsible mob VINO 90
pand tho control of it according TO sueh
plan as suits it. The tyranny OF the Gar
Of Russia from whose domains the assas-
ain is said 10 have come. could not be more
complete, and between the two the tyranny
of the Gar is far TO be preferred.
It is useless for those who maintain what
they call the rights of organized labor
10 claim that organized labor should not BE-
held responsible for this assassin's act All
that they do, all that they teach leads IN
evitably 70 lust such acts. Robert Pinkef-
ton told the committee Of the House OF
Representatives investigating this matter
on Friday that be had never seen strike
when labor organizations or thor men had
not beaten non-union men. lie had seen
men knocked of trains; he had seen them
beaten almost 10 a Jelly; be had known
members of this very Knights OF. Labor or
der. whose representatives were here, to put
distractions on the track and 70 put dyna-
mite under cars He had seen men who
wanted 10 work treated worse than saw
ages by representatives of secret labor or
eanizauons. and be had seen them sent to
prison for it.
1t ia of no avail 10 seek TO disoredit these
statements by pointing to the fact that they
we're made by one of the Pinkertons. Every
man of common intelligence knows the
statements 20 be true. IL seems az II mans
individual sense of what Is right Is either
hunted or overborne when he takes part IN
n secret labor organization. for We have here
in Richmond seen these statements Verlfled
in some degree, aud that too, by GLASS Of
mechanics for the most the equal Of any in
the world in their ordinary lives as Well-be-
haved Industrious law-abiding, home-loy-
ing citizens. Allegiance TO the union seems
to impair, Il not destroy, allegiance to the
State and her laws. The gravity of this sit
uation. az it is now developed, makes it very
important that we should take brief review
of the merits of the strike at the Home
stead works.
We have heretofore pointed out and COM
nented on the fact that this Is not fight
for all nsS Homestead workingmen, but for
few x those workingmen who will not
allow tbs general lsborer to become men,
Der Of their order and association. 1t is q
fght made By body Of highly-faYored
workmen in behalf Of privileges TO thom-
selves. The New York Heralds special dis
patch from Homestead on Friday has this
striking statement:
The advisory committee tonight gives
news Of 300 relief contribution from 4
| labor lodge in Bellsire, Ohio The most
| substantial contribution 1t has received II
| does not, however, acknowledge. This is
| in the shape Of sign stuck up on an Eighth
! avenue shop front calling for three hundred
| laborers and teamsters TO work on Penn
! sylvania railroad grading at Millville. One
| hundred aud fifty went to-day. one hundred
| and fifty more will 90 tomorrow. These
| vassale of the aristocTaCY Of labor have sac
rihced just three weeks wages IN the cauee
Of their grand seigneurs of the Amalga-
| mated, a cause with which they have no
more 10 do than with the missionary trou-
bles in China, and now go forth to grub
| new soil without tho slightest chance Of the
! compensation for their enforced losses.
And the sympathies Of the Herald's corro-
spondents have been strongly against Mr..
Carnegie and with the strikers.
| O'Donnell the leader Of the strikers, gave
Mr. Oates congressional committee state
ment Of what ne himself would be paid
under the new scale proposed by Mr.. Car
| mania TTa aai1 ha would racetxA tndey a
| si44 per month of eight hours work PEI
! day. On this statement the Philsdelphia
Press makes the following pertinent re.
marks,
That is. O'Donnell as 6 worker In the
| Homestead mill earned about 81, 800 a year
| more than nine-tenths of all the cloTgymen
in the state earn. More than nine-tenths
| Of all the teachers. More than half OF
! the lawyers. Twice as much as most
of the farmers. Six times as much as most
Of the ordinary farm laborers. Yet even
! O'Donnell was not one of the best paid al
| Homestead. The testimony showed that
| some Of the workmen received $3.50 t. $2S(
Il month; that is, V3. 900 10 81, $50 year
But O'DOnnell was not starved. He wa.
paid 81 500 a year, and the scale he refused
didn't cut HIM down, And that is the
grievance which brought strike, not ant
murder"
This is no exaggerated statement of the
case. II Is perfectly fair and reasonAbl,
one. These barons Of labor then are e
bring about such "a condition of things al
exists now, in order that they may be pro
tected in the enjoyment of special privileges
In which they will not permit the common