Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1887 — Right Here at Home. [ARTICLE]

Right Here at Home.

Chicago Hsrald: Pleasant Valley Bounds sweetly to the ear. It is in Pennsylvania. It was there not long since th 4i t the coal mine owners starved their emplo : es into submission. There is considerable activity herefcnow. Wnen the miners employed there left their work the other day 150 Hungarians were s nt for to take their places. The Hungarians belong to an, element which is increasing with great rapidity in the coal country. They are called strike breakers,! ecause thoy work so much cheaper |than Americans do that they may always he had when any trouble exists with the other workingmen as to their wages. VV hen the Hungarians had been s nt into the pit it was found that th strikers had surrounded the property and would im4 permit anybody to leave or enter their lines. Armed guards were sent for, but even with these it was seen that if nctnal war was to be avoided the new men must bo kept in the mine. So the Hungarians are living where they work and the strikers me camped all around them, threatening all who attempt to go to their rescue. Such provisions as reach the Hungarians are smuggled through the lines. Several men vho have attempted to carry supplies to them have been beaten almost to death. In the surrounding country the fences and dead walls contain plac rds in Hungarian warning all people of that nationality to keep away from the Pleasant Valley mines on pain of death, and the fact that some Hungarians in the vicinity have been stricken *»ith- a mysterious sickness leads to the belief that certain wells have been poisoned. The strikers have been turned out of their huts, and they and their families are camped on the hills, supported by the contributions of fellow workingmen elsewhere. This is a protected industry.— The place where,these things are going on is not in Siberia or in the Black Mountains.. It is in Pie sant Valley, in Pennsylvania, where they have many millionaires and the most degraded labor that is to be found in America. The lunch and meals, gotten up by Antrim are attracting a patronage to that highly appreciated by the proprietor i hereof., Antrim says his aim will be to deserve it. *