The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-21
A BIG STRIKE BREWING.
Alleged Labor Organizations Said to
Have Their "Pipe-Layers."
WORKING TO GET UP TROUBLE.
The Information Not Very Definite or Con-
elusive, But Some Indications Are Not
Very Measuring to the Lovers OF Peace
and ouietude.

NEW YORK. Nov. 2l-"There will be
the biggest strike ever seen In this
country next spring, beginning in Chicago
or somewhere else, before the Worlds
fair, covering dozens or scores of unions.
and playing the mischief with some
things" according TO the predictions Of "A
unionist leader with whom reporter
held communication. 1.-THE pipe laying,
for IT has been begun" he continued,
"and II there is no break In the lines Ii
will be heard of when the time comes
The miners and the ironworkers and the
building trades and the railroad switchers
are not the only men who are dissatisfied
with things nowadays, as the bosses will
hnd out, and as they have found out this
month in New Orleans and other places.
We expect that plans will be set up
by which the trade and labor organ Ia
tions will work together some how, so
that the American Federation Of Labor
will not be fighting the Knights OF La
Dor, and so that the outside bodies will
either be brought la or made to stay still.
The workingmen have been beaten in
hundred strikes OF the past two years,
because they weren't united. but perhaps
they can be got to join hands next year
In honor OF Christopher Columbus OF
Chicago. Look out for squall when the
winds blowW
In the last issue OF Powderly's organ
there was HUT of the impending
trouble, by which the members of his
order were given to understand that the
first movement in the ''monstrous strike
of 1893" is TO be- made by the Railroad
Switchmen's union, with the object OF
Gripping Chicago. IL is there reported
that the secretary OF that union, Joseph
Heimerle, has declared that the switch
mems strikes OF this year at Buffalo and
asRwhQra M nraI1Haa N a
strike OF next spring, which is TO be a
gigantic uprising OF labor all over the
country. The plans for this uprising"
the secretary added, nave been made,
and 1t will be the greatest thing ever
seen In the United States"
He gave notice that, "if the railroad
companies do not come 10 terms with
tueir men there will he lively times for
them when the strike Is declared, and
that there business cannot be- carried on
at the very period when IL would lie most
profitable through the transportation OF
passengers and freight To Chicago. They
can keep out OF trouble" said this secre-
tary, "by giving us what we ask"
The pipe-lavers and agitators who are
looking forward to the big strike have
not yet fixed upon any specific or direct
object To be gained by IL, SO far as the re-
porter could ascertain; but IL is proba-
bic that some grievance OF some union
will first be taken up. such, for example,
as that of the switchmen, ana afterward
other grievances Of other uni Jns will be
brought to the front, under the stimulus
OF the excl ement that is to be raised. 1t
is said that there is no malicious purpose
10 injure the Chicago exhibition of the
Columbian year. but mercy that the OPP
portunity furnished by that exhibition
will be seized to recover the losses that
have recently been incurred. 1t is ex-
pected that II hundreds of thousands OF
workingmen, Including railroaders,
should go out on strike in the spring,
when Chicago is to the fore. IL may be
possible for them to gain advantages that
could not be gained at any other time,
and TO interfere witn business in such a
way that the bosses will be compelled TO
succumb