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Show WAS IT TREASON? G. M. W. Powderly Charges Frick and Pinkerton With the Crime. Sc raxto.n, Pa... July 15. General Master workman Powderly addressed letters to President Harrison snd Governor Pattison calling attention to the fact that the laws of the United States and of Pennsylvania were violated by the invasion of-Pinkertons on Ju!yt3th at Homestead. ' He calis attention to the fact that the men marched under a United Stales flair. He says whoever usurped the functions of commander-in-chief of the army in ordering these men to invade Pennsylvania Is guilty of treason and should be punished accordingly. lie therefore there-fore asks an invesfiyation. These responsible respon-sible persons, he say's, are Frick and Robert Pinkerton. Another point is as the armed men came altogether from an outside state and as such could not hold offices they could not be sworn in as deputies, and that the Homestead men were rijfht inres-isting them. |