Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-18
PLENTY OF OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE.
Talk of Keeping the Troops on Guard
for Year.

Talk of Keeping the Troops on Guard
foI Year.
The sympathy with the men is wide
spread. One of the leaders of the locked
out men said yesterday that assurances
had been received from unions whose men
handle the product of the Homestead
mills that they stand ready to declare
general boycott against Carnegie materials.
These include the Freight Handlers union,
which will refuse to ship iron and steel &c
and from the mill, the structural ship
builders, and others, who will quit work
rather than the product of non-uniOn
men. All this tends to show that in case
the Carnegie company continues in its
determination to employ non-union labor
il will precipitate strike on the principal
railroads and in many of the great man
ufacruring Industries of this country.
Warmed the Hnngarians-
Down near the City + arm station of the
PittsburE, Virginia and Charleston rail
road Is Il large tenement inhabited by a
number of HunSarians. The soldiers on
guard near this place became suspicious of
the action of the Hungarians and it came
to be believed that the latter had hostile
intentions towards the militiamen. As a
consequence of this belief, an officer was
sent to the house and he informed the
dwellers that if any of the guards are fired
on or if any hostile inclinations We're
shown the house would be burned. The
Hugarians are in a great state of excite
ment.
Long Service for the Soldiers.
The talk Of forming one or two provis-
ional regiments for long service at Home
stead has increased among the troops, and
ii is likely tnat when Governor Pattison
decides to keep men here until the trouble
has ended the supply of volunteers will be
greater than the demand. Many of the
officers favor longer term of service than
three months for the provisional force.
They are of opinion that the strikers are
patient enough in their determination to
wait quietly for them to leave and then
take matters in their own hands again
when the provisional force i removed.
Troops Guard for a Year.
In conversation with reporter yester-
day a prominent officer said: 1t is nom
sense TO think of enlisting a provisional
regiment for three months service. The
men should be enlisted for year. They
may not be needed for that length of time,
but it would be well to have it known that
they are to remain here for a year for the
purpose of influencing the strikers in
doing what is right. Ii they understood
that the troops would remain twelve
months instead of three the strikers would
give up contemplating any means TO cause
trouble, and things would settle down to
their ordinary condition"
Taking Care of the Needy.
There has been little use for funds as
yet, the majority of the men being in COM
Portable circumstances. There has not
been one instance of a grocery man or
merchant refusing credit because the ap-
plicanr was out OF employment. Relief
has been extended to ten families who
have had illness or some misfortune to
contend with. The merchants of the Dor
ough have been notified TO send the ac-
counts of all customers who can not pay
and who are mill men to the relief COM
mittee and the bills will be paid.