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Show 1RON MEN SITSI'ICIOUS. Carnegie Believed to be Violating the Contract Con-tract Labor Law. Philadelphia, July IS. If the information informa-tion received by " President Wcihe of the Amalgamated association to the effect that Carnegie A Co., are importing workers from Belgium by the steamer Switzerland be true then the men are safe behind a cordon of troops around Homestead, for the Switzerland Switzer-land arrived hero Wednesday last and brought 040 immigrants, every one of whom passed by th; inspectors and were allowed to proceed to his destination. Deputy Surveyor Sur-veyor Franklin who was on the deck examining exam-ining the baggage noticed among the newly arrived passengers a company of about a hundred men who were noticeable for their stalwart appcaraii'.-e. Deputy Franklin said all of them had the look of men who had been fniraged at somo occupation that developed de-veloped strength. He also noticed that their baggage was checked to Altoona, Pa., which is but a short distance from Homestead. Chief Officer Apertz, in charge ot tne Switzerland, Swit-zerland, was here today aud he said but few of the steamer's passengers were Belgians and none ironworkers. |