Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-16
WILL FIGHT LEGITlMATELY.
The Boycott To BE Invoked to Beat the
Managers.


Managers.
In discussing the situation Hugh O'Don-
nell said: I'VE will fight this strike out
on Legitimate lines. The Pinkerton incl
dent has put a false complexion on affairs
and changed the channel of the public's
estimation of our rights and wrongs
Many people thi nix we intend endeavoring
to maintain our position by lawless means.
Such never WAS our intention. The work
mans only effective weapon, the boycott,
will be employed and we will endeavor
to strike a blow at Carnegie's every in
dustry.
O'Donnen Records a Guarantee.
"Tn guarantee there will be no harm
offered non-union men coming here, but
cannot offer the same guarantee to Pink
Homestead goes wild at the mention of
one. Mr.. Carnegie may be able to get
non-union laborers, helpers blacksmiths,
mechanics, carpenters and painters, but all
these have to depend on the skilled men
who make the steel. Without the rollers,
heaters, shearers, cutters, and other high
priced workmen the mills cannot start.
and it is this class of men on which we
have the hold"
Have Always Favored Peace.
The leaders are evidently in earnest in
their instructions concerning non-resist-
ance to any attempt of the company to
put non-union men in the works, but they
find their efforts in this connection seri-
ously hampered by the disposition of some
of the workers. The leaders claim that 4
peaceful and legitimate fight has always
been counselled by them and that the as
sault on the Pinkertons was merely an in
cldent that could not be checked In time.
Believe They VIII Win in the End.
According to the statements made by the
chief men in the association it will take at
least two years for the Carnegie company
to train non-union workmen in the pro-
cess of improved manufacture of their
products, and during the period the COM
pany will be seriously crippled by the nee
essary slowness of its work and the many
accidents and mistakes that would proba-
bly, occur owing to the Ignorance of gre en
hands. 4 belief in the failure of the COM
pany to secure proper cooperation in
maintaining its plant has given the lead
ers great encouragement according to
their own stetements), and they state that
n maintenance of the struggle on this line
will ultimately bring them victor.
Foreman Quits Work.
A number of incidents tending to en-
courage the locked out meu in their posi-
tion have happened already. Allen
Hubbard, the foreman of the armor plate
shop of the Carnegie mills, quit work yes
protection and declared that if the MALTA
were to be used for police duty in order to
operate the mills he would not work
there, but would seek employment else
where. The entire force of the civil engi-
neering department of the mills also quit
work out of sympathy with the locked out
men.
Felp from the building Trades.
Another source of encouragement to the
strikers is the Endorsement of their course
by the labor unions throughout the coun-
try, and they are elated at the stand taken
by some of these organizations of work
men in deciding to boycott the Carnegie
company by refusing to work on any build
ing or other erection where structural iron
or ssteel manufactured by the Carnegie
company is used. Sentiment in this line
will be encouraged and urged at every OPP
portuhity. Thirty-five bricklayers, not
members Of the A. A. /. S. w, have re-
fused to work in the mills pending the
strike