The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-28
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VaSions of new men.

vasion of new men
Inc present strike of oyer fly thou
sand steel workers of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
/ ers PRESENTS no sTeh picture, says a staff
writer in the New York World. A stran-
ger can walk by any P1ttsburg idle mill
ana not see half dozen strikers Hun
dreds OF them have quit the city. and
! While. enjoying themselves, in sylvan
slades hope the strike will last. all sum-
mer
Hundreds of mill men who walked out
and VIII not walk in again until ordered
by tRelf ofncers are enjoying themselves.
at tshlng camps along the Ohio Monon-
gahela, Houghiogheny and Cheat rivers.
Most or them are members of clubs
which tal1eaa summer outing. u
Otners formed clubs when they saw
the strike coming and rushed for the
woods as soon as the strike order went
into eIIeet Some of them took their
wives and children Others left their
families at home to swe,ter and GOSSIP
about the duration of the strike,
Inc upper Monongahela river is dotted
on both sides witch white canvas tents
SO is the Youghiogheny. There are few
along the Ohio, because the fishing is not
so good
The McKeesport strikers have ha,f a
dozen camps. Every man at Carnp Vic
tory has his wife with him. Camp Reso-
lutte IS near by with thirty single men,
who have cooks. and servants to wait
upon them as Inhabitants
Fhere are camps at Gflassport, Con-
feInce, Monongahela City and other
places Here the men. lounge on the
grass or IN hamInocks, fish when they
reel inclined, row, battle and have q
good time generally. In the. evenings
there are entertainments, many Of the
campers being. clever dramatic amateurs
and musician
Inc men have worked long and steady
at good wages. Many of the mills had
three shifts-that is, ran. twenty-four
hours day with three sets Of men.
each working eight hours. Labor was
scarce all during the scale year which
ended june 80, and many of the men
worked sixteen hours a day
No wonder Trey dropped from exifaus-
ton at theE first spell of hot weather.,
and no woratief they rushed off to camp.
hoping the Strike will not end until fall
These are she finishers the better paid
class Of mill labor, whose wages range.
from 81 per day upward
With the. common mill laborer and
per day 1T is the women who bear the
brupt of a. strike. 1t is their ears which.
will hear the children ask for bread.
And yet in this strike, as in others,
the women stand shoulder to Shoulder
with the men, inspiring enthusiasm in
the. lighters and with a determination.
Ito help their men o4.t, Let the end be
what it may
Miles of streets on The south siaeeoF
Pittsburg are built up of the httler homes
of mill workers. Some of these 1ietl44
homes, are bright and CHEEKY despite the
CRIME, with a flower box here, a white
curtain there, to make a bright spot in a
dull picture, but the majority partake
of the general gloom which must prevail
where the sun shines only fundamentally
even in July -andsWhere shadows seem, O
have their eternal dwelling place.
But though the outside OF the houses
looks dark, the inside affords a well
come contrast. Clean and bright for the
most part, with ornamentation which be-
speaks love of home, each one of these
little gabled- houses is "a center of force
in the great strike, and under each roof
beats a Woman's heart strong for the
strife
A journey through these streets re-
vealed but one sentiment among the bet
ter class of women, who lead the spirit
MY man goes out today" said Mrs
Tim Blake, a stalwart woman in Cor
mans alley, whose hands,, Wrinkled and
shriveled from the family washtub,
showed a worn wedding ring 81 don't
KNOW Iucn ABOUT CneSe Things, because
can't read, and what I know is only
what Tim and the childer tells me, but
1 know it's for the good of the workin'
man, and no woman who Is worth the
name will be agin that good.
ST never was in a strike before except
one, when I was just married and had
but one child Then my man went East
into the coal mines; he sent me s. a week,
and I lived on lat and helped others
that hadn't so mucn"
A tow-headed urcilin chung to MS moth
er's skirt While she spoke, and Clipped
in:
1.-The kids is called lambs, black
lambs when their fathers goes in to be
black sheep, and I'll never be a. lamb
I'm fur the strikers, and I'll do without
dinner fore I'd ask dad to go back
Mrs. James MeCarty, a stout, mother
ly dame, who sat in the front of her
neat house in South Fifteenth street,
looked rather disconsolate when the
strike was mentioned. Shee has but one
son, a worker in the tin mills; who gets
a wage, ranging from IS, to $15 week.
/ amt got no man to look to me-" she
said; Il got only one boy at home, and
he worked hardly any all winter It's
hard work to keep the roof over the
head and the bread in the stomach when
there's no work to do. But I'm willin'
for him to- strike when the rest does.
There amt no sense in workingmen not
standin' together They're worked like
horses, anyhow, and if they don't stand
together they'll be worse than horses
I'll put my hand to the washtub,
ike many another woman does, afore I'll