Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-13

some one going home past the MIN
Office heard man grooming at tie 100,
OF a new excavation at the end Of tha
building and climbing down Discovered
the man who had been 10 see Mr.
Winter twice that afternoon. He haa
q terrible cash In his head and Lived
only a few minutes after he was ais.
covered. To the half dozen men wh)
stood over him IN the saloon. where ha
had been carried he had murmursi
the name Of Mr.. Winter" and had then
expired.
a very little adds fuel to the brain u
men already heated with rum and IA.
tired. The rumor spread like lightning
that the wealthy mill owner had Killed
one OF the employees who had gone 10
see him pAaceably and arrange matters
for the men. He had thrown him out
Of the Office into one OF the new min
excavations and left him there TO de
Ike a dog In a ditch. So thelstOry ran
all through the tenement district, and
In an incredibly swift time the wor,
elements IN Milton were swging To-
ward Mr. Winters house with murder
In their hearts and the means Of accom-.
pllshing Il In their hands,
Mr. Winter had finished his work a,
the Office and gone home to sit down to
a late lunch, as his custom was, when
he was interrupted by the mob. The
rest of the incident Is connected VITA
what has been told. The crowd seized
him with little ceremony, and Il was
only Philips timely arrival and his
saving Of minutes until the police or.
rived that prevented a lynchms 10
Milton that night. As Il was Mr.. Win.
ter received a scare from which h
took a long time to recover. He dread.
ed 10 go out alone at night. He kept
on guard a special Waterman and lived
in more or less terror even then. II
was satisfactorily proved In a few
days that the man who had gone 70
see Mr.. Winter had never reached the
office door: but, coming around the
corner of the building where the new
work was being done, he had fallen Of
the stonework, striking on a rock IN
such way as to produce a fatal
wound. This tempered the feeling q
the wOrkmen toward Mr.. Winter, but
a widespread unrest aud discomfort
had seized on every man employed IN
the mills, and as the winter drew on
affairs reached a crisis,
The difference between the mills and
the men over the scale OF wages coui
not be settled. The men began TO talk
about a strike, Philip heard OF II and
at once. with his usual frankness and
boldness, spoke with downright plain.
ness to the men against IL, That was
at the little hall a week after the al.
tempt on MIR Winters life. Philips
L. l.t al kaI ~ Ii Id
his reputation and his popularity with
the men. They admired his courage
and his grit, Most 81 them were
ashamed Of the whole affair, especially
after they had sobered down and I!
had been proven that Mr., Winter had
not touched the man. SO Philip was
welcomed with applause as he cam.
out on the little platform and looked
over the crowded room, seeing many
faces there that had glared at him n
the mob a week before. Aud yet his
heart told him he loved these men,
1t was terrible responsibility
to have such men count him popular
and he prayed that wisdom llight 10
given him In the approaching crisis g,
peciany as he seemed TO have some real
influence.
He had not spoken ten words when
some one by the door cried: Come ou'.
side! Big crowd out here want 20 gel
In" II was moonlight and not Vely
cold, so everyone moved out OF zoe
hall. and Philip mounted the steps Of
near by and spoke 10
crowd that filed up the streets In from
and for a long distance right ana lelI
His speech was very brief, but II was
fortified with telling figures, and at ths
close he stood and answered a perfsG
torrent OF questions. His main counss'
was against a strike In the present sl'-
uation. He had maze himself familiar
with the facts on both sides. Strikes
he argued, except In very rare cases
were demoralizng-an unhealthy oE'
astrous method OF getting justice dohs'
why, just look at that st7Ke u
Preston, England, among the COTTON
spinners. There were only 66O opera
tives, but that strike, before II ehasS,
threw out Of employment over ~
weavers and other workmen VINO hau
nothing TO do whatever with the quar-
rel OF the 600 men. In the recent strlks
In the cotton trade in Lancashire a.
the end Of the first - weeks the opera
tiyes had lost in wages alone s45OeWS
Four strikes that occurred In Engiahl
between 1870 and 1850 involved loss
IN wages Of more than s25,OW0W ~
p 900 strikes investigated lately Ny
the national bureau OF labor II Is esu,
mated that the employees lost aDou.
ISL 100000, while the employers los.
only $50, 100000. out Of 1853 strikes ~
England between 1870 and 1859 ~
were lost by the strikers Il WeIs
gained and 81 compromised, but IN ln'
strikes that We're successful II took sss
sral years TO regain In wayes lns
amount lost by the enforced idlehes'
)f the men,"
There were enough hard thlnNus,,
sensible men in the audience that n, Lss
10 sec the force OF his argument. ~
majority. however, were In favor OF
general strike TO gain their polni -
'egard TO the scale OF wages. WIZ
Philip went home, he carried Win ~
he conviction that a general STRIKE -
he mills was pending. In spite Oh ~.
act that Il was the worst possible 80
ION OF the year for such action ana ~
ipite OF the fact that the difference ~
handed by the men was a triiie eon