Excerpt from The Arena, Vol. 31: January to June In the six weeks' Homestead strike in the iron works, 1892, brought on by a cut in the wages of a few workers, there were riots, a two days' Pinkerton battle with the strikers, many lives lost, forty non-union men poisoned at their meals, much property destroyed, great loss in wages and product, immense excitement throughout the country, incalculable intensification Of the antagonism between labor and capital, and complete failure of the men with permanent loss Of their ...
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Excerpt from The Arena, Vol. 31: January to June In the six weeks' Homestead strike in the iron works, 1892, brought on by a cut in the wages of a few workers, there were riots, a two days' Pinkerton battle with the strikers, many lives lost, forty non-union men poisoned at their meals, much property destroyed, great loss in wages and product, immense excitement throughout the country, incalculable intensification Of the antagonism between labor and capital, and complete failure of the men with permanent loss Of their places by a large part of them. When the iron workers of New Zealand had a grievance in 1899, they took it to the Arbitration Court and Obtained an impartial hearing and a just judgment binding the companies hard and fast, without anger or bloodshed or loss Of property. In 1894 we had a great coal-miners' strike spreading over eleven states and one territory, whole counties terrorized, strikers intrenched in open insurrection, much property des troyed, troops powerless to preserve order, shooting, eviction, dynamite, assassination, kidnapping, torture, pitched battles, many lives lost, to say nothing Of the suspension of industry and the incalculable losses of labor, capital, and the public. In 1902 we had another tremendous coal strike in the anthra cite regions Of Pennsylvania, throwing men out of work, making fuel scarce and high over a large part of the country, depriving industries of the coal they need, filling our beautiful cities with bituminous smoke and dust, causing inconvenience and loss in their homes and business to twenty or thirty millions Of people, and running up a total loss account of more than all because a few coal barons refused to arbitrate the grievances of the workers, as the men desired and Offered from the start to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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