The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . Fishing from morning tonight. MR. FRICKS RETURN 235 nothing had happened. He left his home unattended, entereda street car, and without fuss or ceremony returned to the officeand took his seat at his desk. It was characteristic of themans simplicity. The previous day he had attended the funeralof his youngest child, born in the midst of this excitement anddead because of it. The mothers life was almost involved inthe CHAPTER XVI THE AFTERMATH OF WAR UNDER the protection of the statemilitia, workmen willing to
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . Fishing from morning tonight. MR. FRICKS RETURN 235 nothing had happened. He left his home unattended, entereda street car, and without fuss or ceremony returned to the officeand took his seat at his desk. It was characteristic of themans simplicity. The previous day he had attended the funeralof his youngest child, born in the midst of this excitement anddead because of it. The mothers life was almost involved inthe CHAPTER XVI THE AFTERMATH OF WAR UNDER the protection of the statemilitia, workmen willing to acceptthe wages which the strikers re-fused were at once introduced intothe deserted mills. Major-GeneralSnowden, who was in command ofthe troops, took a firm hold of thesituation the moment he arrived; and opendefiance of law and order ceased at the soundof the first bugle-call. The impression hadgone abroad among the strikers that themilitia had come to prevent the landing of more illusion was dispelled in a single sentence of the com-mander: The gates are open. Any one may go in if thecompany permits it. In three days a hundred men were atwork; in two weeks nearly a thousand were inside the mill, andone of the regiments had left for home. With the fatuity that had characterized the actions of theAmalgamated Association from the outset, a sympathetic strikewas now ordered in the other Carnegie works. Although thescale had been signed at the Upper and Lower Union Mills andat B
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