Show CONGRESS LNVJCSTIGATiNG The Committee ContInue Their Examination of Witnesses PIfSnuna July l3The congressional committee continued the Homestead investigation in-vestigation this morning with further examination ex-amination of Frick of the Carnegie company com-pany He detailed the arrangement with tae Pinkertons to furnish guards for the Homestead property and said the arms were consigned to the Union Supply company com-pany who delivered them to Captain Rogers of tho Pinkertons Frick was not sure but supposed ho had something to do with furnishing of arms end could note not-e brought to answer more definitely He believed the Pink rtoc word advised that armswould be needed but arms tcre no t stipulated in the employment of guards Frick said the wages paid at Homestead were higher than at any other place Sheriff McCleary detailed the attempted efforts to secure a posse He was untitled the night the Pinkertons went up and he tried to persuade them not to send them as he feared trouble 1 bo sheriff said he haa not authorized Colonel Gray to deputize tho Piakertoua Ho did not go to Homestead Home-stead on the day of tho trouble because it was useless Captain Boutner of the committee de clareftthat the scale of wages paid as explained wags plalned by Frick was the highest wages he ever heard of In reply toBoutner be said he felt sure the matter could have been settled if the conference had been carried on The objection ob-jection to the termination of the scale in January was that past experience shows when winter comes on and the scalo expires ex-pires tbe manufacturers take advantage of the cold weather to starve the men into submission Roberts said he was in favor of compulsory arbitration Tbe witness further stated that during the scale conference con-ference Abbott the JOrraer chairman of Carnegie said The quotations on steel billets were 32 lower than the market prico and insisted the scale should be arranged on that basis They bad not offered to arbitrate until after tim trouble Ho could not say whether or not the association was willing to arbitrate Personally he was in favor of the law of arbitration ODonnell was the next witness Ho said when the strike was ordered the lodges held a joint meeting and appointed an advisory committee to havn men placed around the fence to keep out irresponsible people The men were instructed to use only moral suasion and wero not instructed instruct-ed to keep anyono out of the mill The witness repeated the story of the Dattle and the efforts to prevent firing by the crowd on shore His wages were S14 per month eight hours under the old schedule Replying to a question as to why laboring men hate tho Pinkertons ho said the chief objection to them was that it ws feared that they would bring nonunion mon An error in statement of wages paid during May was made in last nights investigation inves-tigation The amount 6 0 25 should bavo been lor the 119inch mill and not for the whole Carnegie property as indicated in the dispatch Deputy Sheriff Clusey then look the stand and told a story of how the deputies had been driven out by the strikers President Woihe was the first witness on tho side of labor Tho reductions he said proposoa in most of the departments the mon object to because they did not think them necessary The reauc tions would average 18 per cent as near as ho could estimate The labor cost of a ton of steel at Homestead Home-stead was 155 In reply to Judge Taylor as to why the men thought they had aright a-right to take possession of the mill Weibe said there may be some who think so but they are not in the society Judtjo Taylor expressed astonishment and said thero seemed to be somequeer ideas of rights of property among tho workingmen |