River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-08-04
LOST BY THE LOCKOUT.
In Addition to the Loss of Several Lives.
the Homestead strike Has Cost About
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Bound Over.

the Homestead strike Has Cost About
$1,000, acknowledgement Bound Over.
PITTSBURGH. Pa, July 30.-The great
lockout al Homestead is just one month
old and has already cost over 81, 600 OO0
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 worLmen have lost
in wages sls0, 900 and the Carnegie com
pany has lost and spent as much more
in getting new workmen. The work
ruen at Beaver Falls, Duquesne and
the Union mills in Pittsburgh have
lost about $4,000 in wages by their
sympathy strike and the firm is
out 100000 by the idleness of
these plants. Added TO this will he
the county expenses for deputy sheriffs
and murder trials, the expense to 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
ge, of the workmen's families coming
TO actual want subscriptions have
been coming in lioerally, 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 S1.4O 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 a few
watchmen were left around the plant.
To-day there about 725 men in the mill
and the firm claims il 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 grocery store has
been closed by constable.
Alexander Bergman, the anarchist
who attempted to assassinate II. c.
Frick was given hearing in the pri-
vate office of the Jail Friday afternoon
and held for trial at the September
sessions in $4,000 bail. The only
witnesses were Vice Chairman Leish-
man, who was with Mr.. Prick at
the time, and David Forney, the ele-
vator boy. Bergman said it was not
true that he tried to shoot Mr.. Leish-
man. Il did not want to touch anyone
but Frick; | meant to kill him." Dur
ing the hearing Bergman was remark
ably cool and smoked constantly at n
cigarette. 1t is stated that in New York
the ''reds" are raising a fand to defend
Bergman.