The Nome daily nugget., 1911-12-06
,contInueo From Tester day

| largest concerns or this kind In the world. They were building the bridge \ across the river for the railway They wired my Chicago office. and sent out one of our best operatives to get on the ground and begin"
 The Campaign of Dynamite. He put out an explanatory hand. ar [. stingly. Now let me tell you. first, | that these Peoria explosions weren't pnythlng new Tn their line. The In ternationai Association of Bridgc and national strike against the American Biidge Company. in August. 1905. be- cause a sub-contractor was hiring non union men Two or three attempts were made during the summer and fall of 1905 to dynamite works that the 'mpany was engaged on and some non union workmen were assaulted One blinded on a Buffalo t,b by havln9 acid thrown In his face erd a time H"rp.r there beaten unccns, 'ous: and twice dynamite was found 1T the fire sorI of thing Then. on Ms, 'sJ8. nest of the large structural Iron eora paEies got together. uioa. .se ma ne ci the National Erectors ..s..cistIou and declared for the open shop'-for the right to employ union and non union workmen as they pleased. and for the power 10 protect their compan- les and their investments from the absolute and Irresponsible dictation of walking delegates. such as the notor- ious sam Parks So the flsh, for the closed shop which the unions were trying 10 force on the companies. nat urally spread all over the contry'
 He had put on a pair Of gold trimmed spectacles. He drew from the pencil. pocket Of his waistcoat a little note- book. the pages of which he began to turn as he talked. hut Il was impos- slble to know. from his absent, minded manner. whether he was aiding his memory with the book or whether he was seeking something else in it while he continued with his narrative. It Is manner that Is well known 10 ever, reporter who has interviewed him while he was busy-while he was glancing over letters at his desk or reading . newspaper at a cafe table And the reporter will have noticed that his ap- parent absent mindedness never be- trays him into any insdvertant admis- sions. though it seems to prevent him from hearing questions to which he does not wish to reply
 He went on; That was the year --ls0e-that a policeman was killed on the Plaza hotel Job in New York city. at Fifth avenue and Fifty ninth strsst: tafty union men attacked three policemen and the non union workmen in the building. you remember. and kuled one of the policemen The Pitts burg Construction Company had sx- plosions on contracts they were doing h Nswarh. N. J. and Cleveland. and ct whisksy Island. near Cleveland. MeCltntic. Msrshali had an iron mill burned h Conshohocken. Pa A man employed by the Fort Pitt Bridge woeks people. in Follsnsbse. W. Va. was Lead. d.piped and his skull crushed 0 that his mind was destroyed. and ." American Bridge Companys watch
 man was shot and killed near Pitts. burg. and there were a lot Of assaults like thoss. aad sone dynamitinss-but not many dynamitings.
 Ameunts te . "RsiSU ef Tsrrer."
 'It was In 1906. too. that they found the first 'clockwork bomb'-on . Pitts-
 burg Construction Companys Job In
 Cleveland. m explain what 1 mean
 by . clockwork bomb in c minute.
 Tn 1907 the troubles seemed to To-
 calize In Ohio. The American Bridge
 Company lost hoistinE- engine in Cleveland. and there were explosions on . Cleveland Short Line bridge and . viaduct at Muls creek on the Lake
 Erie. A McClintic. Marshall man had
 his skull fractured by an assaiiant at Pittsburg. and . foreman on . Pitts-
 burg Steel job In Ashtabula. Ohio. wac sssaultsd. and he shot and killed one of the men attacking him. The Cisvs.
 land local union was involved ln this assault. and the Erectors' Association gos the tdsa thaa the Clsvaaand union
 was responsible for most of the sx-
 plosioas.
 ''in 1s0s the dynamiting amounted
 to "rsign of terror" We wses given Ia record foe that year of twenty biz IsxplosiOns on difEsesnt works. hssidss
 four attempted sxpsosious and three
 eesss of stsmRssing -vitA mashipsry.
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