The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-20
GETTING ALL THINGS READY.
pIPE-LAYryo ron Bro srsrrr
The Pipes TO Run Through Unio.. IN
Over the Country.

PIPE-LAYfNG FOR BIO STRIKE
The Pipes to Run Through Un,o,. IN
Over the Country.
There will be tho biggest strike ever seen
In this country next spring. beginning in Chi
| cago or somewhere else. before the Worlds
Fair. covering dozens or scores OF unions, and
playing tho mischief with some things" ac.
| cording to the predictions OF a unionist leader
with whom u reporter OF THE Sun held com.
munication. " The pipe-laying for 1t has been
begun" he continued. and II thtre is no
break in the lines II will DO heard Of when the
| time comes The miners and the lronworkcrs
and tho building trades and tho railroad
swtchers are not the only men who are dis
satisfied with things nowadays. as the bossc,
| will find out and as they have found out this
month in New Orleans and other flaccs.
We expect that PLANS will DO sct
up by which tho trade and lab,r
organizations will work together somchow.
so that Gomrcrs's American Federation u'l..-
| Dor will not DO lighting Powdcrys knight, 4
| Labor and so that the outside bodies VIII
| either be brought in or made to stay still.
There may be trouble with some OF the So
| caist leaders. but then they are in favor u
every strike anyhow. Tho pipes haven't boon
| laid yet by anybody in Chicago or Pi;tsbur III
or Buffalo or New Orleans or New York: hut
the pipe-layers are around. though they don't
show up In the newspapers, and can't be got
to tell anything. and don't know very much.
Tho workingmcn have been beaten in hum
dred strikes of tho past two years. because
they weren't united, but perhaps they can he
got to join hands next year in honor of Chris
TOPPER Columbus OF Chicago Look out for
squal whom the winds blowl"
Tho individual who talked in this way to the
reporter had tho style OF n "glfTcr." and he
has been sorehead ever since the strike of
tho Buffalo switchmen. In which ho took part.
by tho failure Of which he was left In the cold.
As tho reporter was unable to get any facts
| from him about the schemes Of the pipe.lay-
ers. ho sought information elsewhere.
Neither Samuel Gompers. the President Of
| the American Federation OF Labor. nor Peter
| ]. Mcclure. its Secretary. has anything to
| communicate about pipe-layinG or about any
big strike In prospect. Mr.. Gompers 10
preparing the business for the twelfth nm.
nual Convention OF the Federation. which
| Is to he held in Philadelphia next
MONTH and he recently issued a circular
| to the unions urging them to be fully repre-
| scented by delegates. as important business
would be presented to them: but meanwhile
| tho public is not TO be informed of the nature
| OF that business. though assurance is given
| held by the Federation. that the unions Of
every state will send delegates to it. that reace
and that an effort will be ,mado to secure the
adoption of n policy under which organized
may arise. ii MIR Powderiy could be induced
| to make conciliatory overtures to the Conyen-
strife between the two bodies. which has been
the cause OF the failure i, 81 many strikes in
pTTh The e and astors Who e" arc look
| Ing forward to the big strike have not yet
ilNed 4ron, any snscils =, or direct object to be
| tain: but 1t is probable that some grievance
Of some union will first he taken up such; for
brought, to the iS under Z, the st%ulYs e
saf nsS ts sss Chicago n
f%rnished By that eshlbtion viii Be seized 10
recover the losses that have recently been in.
It IL i WdnsSnsms ss "nIsd ra It
when Chicago Is to the fore: It may be possible
gained at any other. time. and to interfere
cuisines. r suSh way that ths bq 'osa
strikes are, often damaging @ the great cor-
poraatiiops thet are now SO powerful In the in-
Among the parties to, the pipe-laying are
some OF those who have been defeated n tho he
learned that among the men ready to join
them are those who are chronic kiekers or
ho os a
ali sorts IT'S! Of 'demaeds." those who say that
xee s 81 rs y
behind all others. those Socialist or SEMI
bc st sn s to ae
pie in the Central Labor rI Union and other
loose, elements will be variously estimated by
peon!e who have observed its manifestations
that Messrs. Gompers and .Powderly could
the last ISSUE 81 M
there ! was hint Of the i,mpending trouble. y
Of o Se ma an
Hno ss with re S
that the Secretary q that union; Joseph Heinz
erie, has declared that the switehmen's strikes
which is to be GirantrSS unrisng Of labor al
the SECRETARY added haye e been mads
and it. will be the greatest thing ever seen
erie does not consider it necessary to
indulge in any concealment. and some more
gave nc! ice there that. vi the railroad cons
ers VIII He sy o T them When f the
strike is declared. and that their business can.
be carried on at he very period when 10
neration OF passengers and freight to Chicago.
They can keep out Of trouGle.' says this
evident from Memories talk. which is rather
loud. thut he has noti1n that he can Brighten
Esars, is FIRST to be declared en- en-, ne
lines. and is to include several branches q
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers The
new Grnnl Master Of the Switchnlen. j; +.
Wilson Of La Crosse. Wis, who WAS elected as
Sweeney's successor hythc convention recent
~ held in 81. Louis. Is openly in favor OF THIS
programme, and indeed he got his OF CO as it's
advocate. MIR Wilson is also an advocate %
III" federation Of the various or.ani Aations OF
railroad employees in 80 IN ~ it can DO
brought ABOUT. Among the important meas
urcs iaYOred Nv the st. Louis Convention was
n rulo that any railroad company rnfuhlngto
settle the grievances Of its men should not be
fprcwarned Of any action which the agsrivrt
parties might deterinin" to iaKo tomiiiittecs
Of the various bodies ,opres.nioi A tho Con-
>rntion were appointed. with fill power to
act. Eut many "i tho provisions made by the
new I.ailrond Federation are not yet known to
| outsiders or 10 the cOmpa'ics. lhero has Just
been an illustration Of the operation OF tho
rccrctlye policy in Columbus. the cuptai u
Ohio. All the lines Of the street railway M
| nan, there were suddenly tied IN last 7 I"s-
DAY morning. and the fact that this procedure
had been resolved uron by the conductors anl
. motor men was kept u profound secret UNTIL 1t
had been carried out 10 the surprise VI tao