The San Francisco call., 1913-10-24


phone TO show that he had finished.
There was an instant's silence and
then a ripping. ragged cheer that
swelled louder and louder and sud-
denly stopped. as il hand had been
pressed against every mouth. 1t was
the hand of terror, the terror they
had for a few moments forgotten.
That night there was another big
meeting and the next day the lead
ers told Allan that the men would
not return to work He gave orders
that all strikers should vacate their
houses within As hours.
The tunnel was empty. Tunnel City
silent and lifeless. Only here and
there along the streets a soldier
stood, leaning on his rifle.
Under pressure of certain prominent
and humane men and women Allan
amended his original lockout order to
the effect that all married men would
be allowed a longer time in which to
make UP their minds. and that in the
meantime their families would be un-
disturbed in their present quarters.
But all single men. those that had
lived for years in the immense bar
racks erected for them, were ordered
to vacate at once. and the exodus be-
gan.
Guided by its leaders. the great
army of strikers marched into New
York city to hold a gigantic demon
stration. Even the men allowed a
longer period of grace by virtue of
their family responsibilities Joined.
For two days Tunnel City was a city
of the dead. and all of one day the
thousands of strikers paraded the
60 Of ha ~ hearing ha
ners that blazoned to the world their
opinions of Allan and all the masters
of the tunnel.
Allan and Lloyd were hung in eff
figy. a movable gallows being carted
around for the purpose so that the
execution might take place whenever
the spirit moved them. The streets
rang with the 'fMarseillaise." but
there was no violence. They were
not welcome in New York but they
had shrewdly planned one exhibit
that won the sympathy of thousands
and started perfect shower OF
money to the war chest of the strike.
This was a delegation marching
four abreast and nearly half mile
long. The leader carried a banner
which bore the inscription Macs
Cripples" Every man who marched
behind that banner was manned in
E0ch a manner lHdl ltit SpCttdA Apt .
could not but see. Some had lost
both arms. some a leg. some an arm
and others an arm and a leg. Some
were without an eye and ear and
hair only on one side of the head.
More than a few were totally blind
and were led along by their COM
rades.
It is singular fact that the first
contribution for these was $4,000
from Ethel Lloyd, who also later on
took pains to see that all of them
were provided for in public or private
institutions When the procession
marched past the Syndicate building
there was much swearing and gen.
eral uproar, but the demonstration
went no further. and by the next
morning the city was quiet. Thou
sands of the strikers returned TO
Tunnel City temporarily, then scat
tered in search of work But the
strike was successful in so far as II
absolutely paralyzed the tunnel work.
Then Allan took counsel with his
engineers and with Sidney Wolf. who
will be remembered as financial direc-
tor of the syndicate. The deposit of
subrnarium was found to be 80 feet
deep in the thinnest place of the great
submarine chamber which the explo-
sion had opened. Since actual tunnel
work was temporarily impossible,
Allan proposed that this invaluable
treasure be mined and marketed pend
ing the breaking of the strike.
But how can we mine 1T If you
have no laborers?" objected Wolf.
THE Pittsburg people will snap
at a profit sharing offer" returned
Allan. Make them a proposition to
mine and split the profits with US
Allan was right. but Wolf was toe
shrewd to offer to split even. He
demanded so per cent, and declared
he could take no less, thus allowing
them two weeks in which TO beat
him down to 521a per cent. The min
eral company came in with its own
labor and began working three shifts
which Allan insisted on, as he be-
lieved that the strike could not last
more than a. month or two and he
wanted the submarium and its miners
out of the way.
Thus. while the tunnel was idle
other hands were cleaning out q
1000 foot chamber for the engineers
to use in a thousand valuable ways
in the permanent construction and al
the same time the tunnel was making
money at the rate of thousands a
day instead of eating up that much
In the same way rich vein OF
potassium and another of iron ore
that had been tapped in the Biscayar
/ boring We're worked for an enor-
NOUS profit, and Allan leased water
| power right and left.
IF we had to have strike. It's
Just as well that we are able to MAX.
ii pay" he remarked. philosophically
and set himself to work on the plans
for utilizing the great chamber.
1t was well in more senses than one
for the financial condition of the syn
dicate was by no means satisfactory
though far from alarming. They had
planned the second big stock issue fol
January of that year, but with 9
strike on this was impossible. Con-