Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-08-04
A COSTLY STRIKE.
More Than 100000 Lost by the
Homestead Affair.
Ten or Twelve Lives Were Also Sacrificed
Idle Men Being Supported by the
Unions-Hard Lines for
StOrekeepers.
COUNTING THE COST.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July SO.-The great
lockout at Homestead is just one month
old and has already cost over 81, ZOO, 600,
besides the sacrifice of half
score of human lives and seri-
Gus injuries to many times that
number. OF the loss in cash the
military has cost in round fig
ures $500, 600, the workmen have lost
in wages $3.50, 900 and the Carnegie com
pany has lost and spent as much more
in getting new workmen. The work
men at Beaver Falls, Duquesne and
the Union mills in Pittsburgh have
lost about 500, 900 in wages by their
sympathy strike and the firm is
out 500, 200 by the idleness of
these plants. Added to this will be
the county expenses for deputy sheriffs
and murder trials, the expense 10 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 S1.40 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 locked-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, 1880 others
struck out of sympathy and only few
watchmen were left around the plant
To-day there about T25 men in the mill
and the firm claims 1t 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 a grocery store has
been closed by "a constable.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, Aug Saturday
looked like a May moving day in
Homestead All the wagons which
could be secured were in use trans
porting the household effects of about
sixty families out of the company's
houses. The houses are to be occupied
by the non-union workmen as soon as
they can be put in good repair The
charge is made by the mill people that
durings he last few days the evicted
tenants broke many windows and
doors and otherwise destroyed prop.
erty.