The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-07-16

Tho contract was not signed at that
time. and the Carnegie works ut Home
stead we're declared to be non-union
from that time forth. The Amalgam-
nted association knew Mr..
Frick's record OF persistanc
and success in other anti-union
wars, and 1t made ready for its strug.
gle for existence But Mr.. Frick, who
Is noted for his farsightedness, had
forcseen the struggle that was to be
and had prepared for it He began
| nearly two months ago to change the
great works into fortress Tho union
men were still working and they could
| see from the windows the pushing OF
the plans of defense. They saw an
army of carpenters appear and build
with speed q strong fence, inclosing all
the great buildings This fence, three
miles long. was founded on an en-
bankment OF slack, several feet high.
1t was pierced ut regular intervals by
loopho es. through which sharp-shoot-
ers, guarding the works. could pick off
any who might attack. Around the
top OF this fence they strung barbed
wire. and this wire was so arranged
that powerful electric current could
be sent through it. The men also saw
a great search light put into the tower
OF the largest of the buildings,
and they knew that the great path OF
light from this could reveal with the
brightness of day any body of men
approaching by night to scale the
shadow OF tho buildings 10 set them on
fire. They saw long sections OF hose
| riggcd to plugs from which scaldine or
cold water, as the defense might wish,
could be sent against the attackers or
thrown upon any building that might
take fire. They saw n big instantane-
GUS camera put in n commanding posi-
ton, that the faces and the weapons
and the attitudes of the rioters might
be taken for use in the courts when
the trouble was over. and these prcpa-
| ratlons filled small section of the
workingmen with impotent rage
They did not dare object They knew
that Mr. Fricl, acquainted with the
dangers of strikes in western Penn
sylvnnia, was wise in preparing
for outbreaks of lawlessness in
which no honest workman would take
hand. They know thnt Mr.. Friclk
conld say with justice that honest
labor was with him in opposing de-
struction of tho interests by which
the whole town lived aud had its be-
ing. llc could sny that these prepara-
tions were not to hurt any men minding
his own affairs. and We're only directe
against rioters. law-brenlters and in
cendiaries But the agitators went
about quietly and stirred ull the In bor-
ers with the cry that tho corporation
was going to shoot down honest labor
ing men asking for their rights With
the beginning of this week the fight
was on. The strikers put the town
under siege ana allowed no one one to
enter without stating his business and
proving it. lest the Carnegie works
might bring in non-union labor to
take tho places of the union labor,
which the company had refused to
recognize us n union. Saturday last
was the last pay day, and in tho SOL
cmn and sullen faces of tho line, usu-
ally gay and light-hcnrted, the coming
storm could be foreseen From tho
way they were paid the men could tell
that they would never enter the works
again except upon the conditions of
the company's ultimntum
On Monday morning the fight began
with the siege Of the town. The men
openly declared that no non-union
laborer should go TO work in these
mills, and that any who tried to enter
the town would be driven back, by
force If force was necessary. And the
company, preparing to reopen the
works, secured the services of the
Pinkerton men.