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Show THE HOMESTEAD ROW. A Citizen of Pennsylvania Tells Something of the Trouble. James B. Talbert of Homestead, Pa., was in the city this forenoon on his way to Portland, Port-land, Oregon, and a Times man was so fortunate for-tunate as to meet him. Mr. Talbert says that the press dispatches of the country have greatly exaggerated exagger-ated reports from Homestead as regards re-gards the battle and the subsequent subse-quent developments. The scene on the day the Pinkertons arrived was one long to be remembered, but the alleged clubbing of the Chicago men was not as bad as painted. The cooler of the striking men protected the Pinkcrton men from violence, and while some few of them were bruised up, the long lists telegraphed over the country were by far too great. Mr. Talbert says the schedule of wages paid by the Carnegie company was misleading, and that the common laborers la-borers did not get any show whatever in the poblished reports. As a matter of fact the men doing the common work around the mill get about $1.10 per day on an average. av-erage. O'Donnell, Mr- Talbert says, will doubtless doubt-less be acquitted of the charge of murder. He believes that O'Donnell did all he could to allay the riot but a man talking to the men on that day was wasting wast-ing words until after the excite-citement excite-citement had died out. He blames the sheriff for neglect of duty and says had he selected deputies from among citizens of Horaestead who were not workers in the mill, instead of asking the Pinkerton agency for them, all trouble would have been averted. As to the probable outcome of the matter he says Carnegie will be compelled to yield. It may not come for a year but he will eventually have to surrender. The employes are all old meu and understand their business, while the people who are taking their places are green and do not know what they are doing half the time. Keeping them means inferior work, and Carnegie cannot afford to send such out. He laughed at the idea of the McKinley law having any effect in producing the result. |