Show S SA A CONTEST IN PENNSYLVANIA Carnegie's Steel Works Discharges Workmen A dispatch from Homestead Pa says that the situation in the Carnegie Steel Works came to a climax at 11 o'clock Wednesday night when every department was shutdown shutdown and workmen received notice of die dis charge This action on the part of the mill officials was not surprising to the men as they had surmised as much Their contract under the old wage scale expires in the morning morning morn morn- ing and the men had stoutly declared their intention to refuse to go to work unless tho new scale was signed As the owners mill were just as determined In their refusal al to sign the scale a strike would have been inevitable in in- 4 evitable in inthe the morning The men inca received d their notices quietly and s went to their respective homes In good humor No disturbances of any account took place though several persons whoso whose presence was distasteful to the men were es escorted es- es out of town and warned not to S No action has yet been taken by the Amalgamated Amalgamated Amal Amal- association and it Is hard to conjecture ture what steps will be taken In the matter by there them |