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wave of compassionate feeling swept
over him. Those nearest never forgot
that look. It was ChristIke ! in its
yearning love for lost children. His
lips moved in prayer.
And just then the outer circle of the
crowd seemed agitated. It had surged
up nearer the light with the evident in-
.tention of hanging the mill owner on
one of the crosspieces of a telegraph
pole near by. The rope had again been
thrown over his head. Philip stood
with one arm about Mr. Winter and
with the other stretched out In en
treaty , when he heard a pistol shot ,
then another. The entire police de
partment had been summoned and had
finally arrived. There was a skirmish
ing rattle of shots. But the crowd be
gan to scatter in the neighborhood of
the police force. Then those nearer
Philip began to run as best they could
away from the officers. Philip and the
mill ow.ner were dragged along with
the rest In the growing confusion until ,
watching his opportunity , Philip pull
ed Mr. Winter behind one of the large
poles by which the lights of the street
were suspended.
Here , sheltered a little , but struck by
many a blow , Philip managed to shield
with his own body the man who only
a little while before had come Into his
own house and called him a liar and
threatened to withdraw his church sup
port because of the preaching of
Christ's principles.
When finally the officers reached the
two men. Mr. Winter was nearly dead
from the fright. Philip was badly
bruised , but not seriously , and he help
ed Mr. Winter back to the house , while
a few of the police remained on guard
the rest of the night It was while re
covering from the effects of the night's
attack that Philip little by little learn
ed of the facts that led up to the as
sault
There had been a growing feeling of
discontent in all the mills , and it had
finally taken shape in the Ocean mill ,
which was largely owned and control
led by Mr. Winter. The discontent
arose from a new scale of wages sub
mitted by the company. It was not
satisfactory to the men , and the after
noon of that evening on which Philip
had gone down to the hall a commit
tee of the mill men had waited on Mr.
Winter and after a long conference
had gone away without getting any
satisfaction. They could not agree on
the proposition made by the company
and by their own labor organization.
Later in the day one of the committee ,
under instructions , went to see Mr.
Winter alone and came away from
the Interview very much excited and
angry. He spent the first part of the
evening In a saloon , where he related
a part of his interview with the mill
owner , and said that he had finally
kicked him out of the office. Still later
in the evening he told several of the
men that lie was going to see Mr. Win
ter again , knowing that on certain
evenings he was in the habit of stayIng -
Ing down at the mill office until nearly
half past 1) for special business. The
mills were undergoing repairs , and
Mr. Winter was away from home
more than usual.
That was the last that any one saw
of the man until , about 10 o'clock ,
some one going home past the mill
office heard a man groaning at the foot
of a new excavation at the end of the
building and climbing down discover
ed the man who had been to see Mr.
Winter twice that afternoon. He had
a terrible gash in his head and lived
only a few minutes after lie was dis
covered. To the half dozen men who
stood over him in the saloon , where he
had been carried , he had murmured
the name of "Mr. Winter" and had
then expired.
A very little adds fuel to the brain of
men already heated with rum and ha
tred. The rumor spread like lightning
that the wealthy mill owner had killed
one of the employees who had gone to
see him peaceably and arrange matters
for the men. He had thrown him out
of the ofiice into one of the new mill
excavations and left him there to die
like a dog in a ditch. So the story ran
all through the tenement district , and
in an incredibly swift time the worst
elements in Milton were surging to
ward Mr. Winter's house with murder
n their hearts and the means of accom
plishing it in their hands.
Mr. Winter had finished his work at
the office and gone home to sit down to
i late lunch , as his custom was , when
he was interrupted by the mob. The
rest of the incident is connected with
what has been told. The crowd seized
him with little ceremony , and it was
only Philip's timely arrival and his
saving of minutes until the police ar
rived that prevented a lynching in
Milton that night As it was Mr. Win
er received a scare from which it
took a long time to recover. 'He dread
ed to go out alone at night He kept
on guard a special watchman and lived
n more or less terror even then. It
was satisfactorily proved in a few
days that the man who had gone to
see Mr. Winter had never reached the
office door ; but , coming around the
corner of the building where the new
'
work was being done , he had fallen off
the stonework , striking on a rock in
such a way as to produce a fatal
wound. This tempered the feeling of
the workmen toward Mr. Winter , but \
a. wlrtpsnrejuL. unrest. .aniL discontent |
had seizKTon eVery" liifin employed In
the mills , and as the winter drew on
affairs reached a crisis.
The difference between the mills and
the men over the scale of wages could
not lie settled. The men began to talk
about a strike. Philip heard of it and
at once , with his r ual frankness and
boldness , spoke with downright plain
ness to the men against it. That was
at the little hall a week after the at
tempt on Mr. Winter's life. Philip's
part In that night's event had added to
his reputation and bis popularity with
the men. They admired his courage
and his grit Most of them were
ashamed of the whole affair , especially
after they had sobered down and it
had been proved that Mr. Winter had
not touchedvthe man. So Philip was
welcomed with applause as he came
out on the little platform and looked
over the crowded room , seeing many
faces there that had glared at him in
the mob a week before. And yet his
heart told him he loved these men , and
his reason told him that It was the
sinner and the unconverted that God
loved. It was a terrible responsibility
to have such men count him popular ,
and he prayed that wisdom might be
given him In the approaching crisis , es
pecially as he seemed to have some
real Influence.
He had not spoken ten words when
some one by the door cried : "Come out
side ! Big crowd out here want to get
in. " It was moonlight and not very
cold , so every one moved out of the
hall , and Phi " .p mounted the steps of a
storehouse near by and spoke to a
crowd that filled up the street In front
and for a long distance right and left
His speech was very brief , but it was
fortified with telling figures , and at the
close he stood and answered a perfect
torrent of questions. His main counsel
was against a strike in the present sit
uation. He had made himself familiar
with the facts on both sides. Strikes ,
be argued , except in very rare cases ,
were demoralizing an unhealthy , dis
astrous method of getting justice done.
"Why. just look at that strike in
Preston , England , among the cotton
spinners. There were only CCO opera
tives , but that strike , before It ended ,
threw out of employment over 7,800
weavers and other workmen who had
nothing whatever to do with the quar
rel of the GGO men. In the recent strike
in the cotton trade in Lancashire at
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the end ofthe first 12 weeks the opera
tives had lost in wages alone § 4,500,000.
Four strikes that occurred in England
between 1870 and 1880 involved a loss
In wages of more than $23,000,000. In
22,000 strikes investigated lately by
the national bureau of labor it is esti
mated that the employees lost about
$51,800,000 , while the employers lost
only $30,700,000. Out of 353 strikes in
England between 1870 and 1880 191
were lost by the strikers , 71 were
gained and 91 compromised , but in the
strikes that were successful it took sev
eral years to regain in wages the
amount lost by the enforced idleness
of the men. "
There were enough hard thinking ,
sensible men in the audience that night
to see the force of his argument The
majority , however , were in favor of a
general strike to gain their point in
regard to the scale of wages. When
Philip went home , he carried with him
the conviction that a general strike in
the mills was pending. In spite of the
fact that it was the worst possible sea
son of the year for such action and in
spite of the fact that the difference de
manded by the men was a trifle com
pared with their loss of wages the very
first day of idleness , there was a deter
mination among the leaders that the
15,000 men In the mills should all go
out in the course of a few days if the
demands of the men in the Ocean mill
were not granted.
What was the surprise of every one
in Milton , therefore , the very next day
when it was announced that every mill
in the great system had shut down
and not a man of the 15,000 laborers
who marched to the buildings in the
early gray of the winter morning found
entrance ! Statements were posted up
on the doors that the mills were shut
down until further notice. The mill
owners had stolen a march on the em
ployees , and the big strike was on ; but
it had been started by capital , not by
labor , and labor went to its tenement
or congregated in the saloon , sullen
and gloomy , and as days went by and
the mills showed no signs of opening
the great army of the unemployed
walked the streets of Milton in grow
ing discontent and fast accumulating
debt and poverty.
Meanwhile the trial of the man ar
rested for shooting Philip came on , and
Philip and his wife both appeared as
witnesses in the case. The man was
convicted and sentenced to 15 years'
imprisonment It has nothing special
to do with the history of Philip Strong ,
but may be of interest to the reader to
know that in two years' time he was
pardoned out and returned to Milton to
open his old saloon , where he actually
told more than once the-story of his at
tempt on the preacher's life.
There came also during those stormy
times in Milton the trial of several of
tlie men who were arrested for the as
sault on Mr. Winter. Philip was also
summoned as a witness in these cases.
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