CHAPTER III. LOCKED OUT.

Frick's Allies--A Plan of General Assault on the Amalgamated Association Falls to the Ground--The Labor Question in Politics--Democrats Make Capital Out of Wage Reductions--Frick Confers With a Workmen's Committee and Rejects a Compromise--Mills Shut Down and Are Declared Non-Union--"Fort Frick"--Lodges Appoint an Advisory Committee--Guarding the Town 27-40