Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-07-16


OF wheat rotted in the shocks, un-
able to find a market at 20 cents a
bushel, while in the Eastern states
rellef stations and soup houses were
prominent institutions. Had a leader
appeared to rouse the people, a revo-
luton would have been imminent,
Coxey's and Kelley's armies of UNI
employed We're marching to Wash
ington to try to force the govern
ment to grant relief to the industrial
classes, but most of them were ar
rested on their way to the capitol
and Imprisonment in stockades,
guarded by negro troops.
Gilmore county felt the crash, but
fortunately there was little or no
suffering for the necessities of life.
The mines in the north end of the
county were closed, and at Glenn's
Ferry the railroad forces and the
hours of labor were reduced.
On the first day of July, 1894, the
great railroad strike, known as the
A. R. U. strike, broke out at Pullman,
Ill, and spread all over the United
States by the Fourth.
On the Sd of July, Glenns Ferry
Union No. 6 declared the strike on
at that place, and about 100 loyal
railroad boys cast their lot with
their struggling brothers in labor
throughout the county. On the 4th
a horde Of deputy U. S. marshals ar
rived in tOwn-all armed and bent
OF overawing the people, a move
ment unnecessary, as a more order
ly or law-abiding set of men could
not be found than the A. r. N. men.
Most of the deputies, or scab pro-
tectors, were the kind of humanity
that is generally to be found among
FOUNDERS and dive haunters-a class
who would not work at any honor
able calling, but who, for per diem,
can be hired to shoot down honest
toilers on any pretext at the behest
of soulless corporation managers.
CHAPTER XXHI
Owing to the stand taken by the
Brotherhood of Engineers, as we'll as
the large number of unemployed,
who were glad of a chance to go to
work even on a "scabbing" PROPOSE
ton, the A. r. u. strike was a
failure, and 80 per cent of those
who took part in it were not only
discharged, but blacklisted and hunt
ed and bounded down all over the
nation. Wherever they went there
was the deadly blacklist and there
were their anne and descriptions
on record. Before the close of the
ensuing winter, a legion OF them,
men who had held high positions,
were reduced to trampism.
The A. R. U. men of the Riverside
town did not escape the fate of the
brethren in that strike. The decree
had gone forth from Omaha that
they must go. Most of them were
old residents of the Ferry; ONE of
them had sat in the councils of the
State of Idaho. Most of them had
built comfortable homes for their
families, which they nov had to
abandon to join the army of the UNI
employed in a hopeless search for a
chance to earn an honest livelihood.
On July IL the strike was declared
off, and on the evening of the same
day a final reunion was held in
Stockton hall, and many old neigh
bors met never to meet again-for
the strikers must go, was the flat
decree of the corporation managers.
Hon. Martin King, A. M. Sinnott,
Con insolvency, Jack Allen and F.
M. Roberts addressed the meeting;
touching farewells were exchanged
all around, and before sunrise the
next day nearly half had already
gone. A few of the brave old guard
remained and eked out a struggling
existence, and the rest scattered in
all directions, leaving their families
to live in hope Of being again reunit-
ed. In the words of Hank" the YER
satile correspondent, in those days,
the Elmore Bulletin:
drifted to Atlantic shores,
Some to Pacific's strands;
Some went to far Alaska's hills,
Or Dixie's sunny land;
Some North, some South, some East,
some West,
Who, a year ago today,
In homes of love and comfort dwelt,
Now exiles far away"
Brave soldiers of industry! You
we're true to your colOrs. You fall
erred not when injunctions were
hurled at you from judges controlled
~ corporations; and when you knew
he penalty for your loyalty to your
,rothers and yourselves. In days to
,ome, when the fatherhood of God
md the brotherhood of man will un-
'url its standards, your memories
will be honored as protomartyrs in
he great cause-a cause that will
eventually triumph and can not be
by blacklists and bull-pens.
The writer has been unable to pro-
,ure a complete roster of the Glenns
Ferry A. r. U. boys, but has received
he following list from authentic
H. L. B~anister, station ag-
mt; H. c. Biddle, operator; Martin
ling. engineer and president of the
/. R. u; C. @. Needham, VIM. Fatch,
Garner, John McGreevy,
ohm E. Allen, Peter Durham, F. L.
,argent. engineers; D. r. Skinner, f.
Hartman, hostlers; AIsOpitz, Nor
is Madden. Mike Madden, Denis
brennan. Sim White, Neal Malloy, E.
!. Biggs, vice-president A. r. u; Ed
ice. Jack Hartman, Clarence Wake
ield. r. D. Gorby, Sim Collins, John
,Brien. ANDY Carter, James r. {
ampbell, John Manning, John Wat /
inson, Con McSweeney, William F.
firemen; A. NJ. Sinnott and J.. Z
Y. Latty, stationary engineers; Ell {
arks. C. M. Hunt, ]. j. Manning,