The record-union., 1894-04-03
STRIKE IN THE EAST.
Scenes of 1891 Repeated Throughout
the Coke ReDiOuS.

Scenes of 1891 Repeated Throughout
the Coke Regions.
UNIoNTowN (Pa.), April 1.-The storm
has broken, and the scenes of 1891 are be-
ing repeated throughout the coke region
tonight. The big coke strike, with all
its attendant rioting and destruction of
property, is now in full force. This
morning the call of the Scottdale Con-
vention was obeyed- by more than half
the works in the coke fields, and it took
5000 men from their work. The situation
is now one of great peril.
The ranks Of the strikers have been so
reinforced that tonight the lowest esti-
mates give them 10000 men. From the
outset the strike has been turbulent, with
a tendency to open defiance of law. There
was rioting in several quarters last night.
1t has grown steadily worse, and to-day
there was a more serious outbreak in
this end of the field. The men
of coke burning in the ovens.
The company then, to save the property,
attempted to put some non-unlon men at
work drawing theIcoke, when the strikers
set on them with stones and clubs, driv-
ing them off. In the melee several men
were badly hert.
The greatest outbreak was at the famous
ing about 400 foreigners from Morrell and
Weller, of the Cambria works, armed
themselves with guns and revolverS and
clubs and started out to drive the men
from the plants. They first visited the
Humphrey works, and finding the men
at work drove them away under the
muzzles of pistols. They then Wis
men had been driven away the riot
ers began firing the shanties at
Hill Farm, but desisted at the frantic en-
treaties of the women and children.
superintendent Long of the Hill Farm
bad some Of the Hungarians arrested for
attempting to burn the property.
At ii o'clock tonight it was reported to
the labor leaders that the movement
now embraces the entire coke region and
not plant will be allowed to operate
without struggle. The strikers openly
threaten to burn the places rather than
see them operated at the present prices
for labor, and if they attempt this loss
of life will certainly follow. By to-
morrow the strikers will muster II, 900 to
Il, ZOO men,sand in their present state of
destitution they are reckless. The civil
cope with the strikers.
There was big meeting here tonight.
The foreign element is in virtual COM
mand. They openly declare it the pur-
pose of the strikers, as the sense of the
meeting, to drive out every man who
may want to work.
THE SEIGNIORAGE BILL.
Statement Concerning Its Veto Issued
by the Peoples Party.
WASHINGTON, April 2.-E. B. Taub-
eneck, Chairman of the National Com
mittee of the Peoples party, has issued
this statement:
''The President, in vetoing the seignior-
age bill, has brushed every pretense of
the old parties aside. The Apache war
fare of cunning and ambush is no longer
necessary. The agent of the gold com BIZ
nation proclaims that the soldiers who
serve under him, whether Republicans
or Democrats, must assert their loyalty to
the money kings. In the future the peo-
pie can take their choice, either to aid in
strengthening the chains of the money
contraction by voting for candidates to
serve in the ranks of the Republican and
Democratic parties, or unite before it is
too late with the PopulIsts for liberty,
equal rights and an American financial
system. The policy of the veto message
means the destruction OF all enterprise,
the issue of bonds to pay the current ex-
penses of the Government, and that ma
tional banks are to obtain money from
the Government at per cent.
''The only compromise offered in the
veto measure is the suggestion that the
United States might be allowed to coin and
use S55. 100000 seigniorage in the Treas
ury, il unlimited authority be granted by
Congress to issue bonds and perpetually
mortgage the resources of the United
States to the money power. Such terms
to fallen foe in open war would shock
every principle of humanity, but when