The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-22

wire. which when the war begins will be
charged with. electricity, and cannot there
fore be touched Inside OF this fence are
now being constructed double rows of gas
and water pipes. At the main entrance
and just inside the ponderous gates have
been erected two substantial water plugs.
Cook houses are being built within the
Enclosure. Sleeping arrangements have
been made for the workmen. who are to
be imported, and an Enclosed platform, ex-
tending from the railroad station over the
high fence and into the works. has been
built
This covered platform, it is explained,
will enable the company TO bring in work
men, should the threatened lockout occur,
without their being seen or known 10 those
whose places they will take. The large
hreplugs at the main entrance, with
pressure of 400 pounds to the square inch,
are TO be used it is claimed, to protect the
workmen against any assault that may be
made from the outside.
The scale proposed to the workmen, it
is claimed by the Carnegies, will not lessen
the earning capacity Of the men 10 whom
it is offered. 1t is intended, they say,
only to equalize wages ana give to the firm
its rlghtfu share OF the profits that result
from improved facilities.
The workmen on the other hand claim
that the new scale will reduce their wages
from Is to 40 per cent. They are men,
bers of the Amalgamated association,
whose national convention is now in
session at Pittsburg, and say they will
fight the new scale to the end.
The present acting head of the Carnegie
interests, H. c. Prick, is known as an
aggressive opponent OF trades unions, and
ii is believed the new scale is offered as
much with a view to making the plant
non-union as to secure lower wages.
Perhaps the part of this dispatch most
significant of the TACT that CARNEGIE is
preparing for wholesale bloodshed if
necessary to carry his point is that he has
employed II. G. FRICK to manage his in
terests On his head rests the blood of
hundreds OF Pennsylvania wOrkingmen,
who, in times past. have been shot down
in the Connellsville coke regions by
Pinkerton detectives in his employ
Blood has flowed till it nearly put out the
fires in his coke furnaces, while he has
gone on apparently undisturbed by the
slaughter. And this is the man whom
CARNEGIE, this petted product of "protec-
tion." selects to manage his campaign
against the men who object to a cut OF
from 10 to 40 per cent. in their wages.
Can any one fail to see the significance?
From the dispatch heretofore quoted it
appears that CARNEGIE proposes to intro
duce some novelties in warfare. He in
tends to use electricity as a killing force
a weapon which even the laws of civilized
war has never yet recognized. 1t matters
not to him what the result so it serve his
purpose. He has set up a feudal castle
defiant of all laws, and he proposes TO
maintain it purely by force of arms.
The prospect is far from a pleasant one
to contemplate. 1t is one of probable
civil war, and that is evidently what this
baronial freebooter wants. He makes
these preparations, well knowing that
they will excite the starved ex-employes
of his beyond control. If be accomplishes
this he feels that in the general outcry
against violence and bloodsed his own
responsibility for the lawlessness will be
lost sight OF, and that his own selfish ends
can be reached without the public notice.
His whole plan is simply inhuman and
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