| Show LABOR TROUBLES Cai carnegie negie the protectionist forces ills his into a BREAD AND BUTTER BUTTEE WAS WAR such things do happen under the mckinley tariff system lirT july G pittsburg las has had another experience with labor riots and this time as during the fearful scenes which were witnessed durin during the riots of 1877 blood has been shed life jeopardized and valuable property placed in danger this time there was no destruction of property but the mob was thoroughly weil well organized well disciplined and had sufficient officers cers at the head to conduct operations operation s the force embraced all the men employed in the extensive plants of the C carnegie iron and st steel eel company at homestead ei eight miles cast of pittsburg and the battle which for bloo bloodthirstiness and boldness of execution lias has not been excelled in actual warfare raged from 4 in tile the morning until 5 0 clock this afternoon and only ceazer when the force of pinker pinkei tons toils brodi brought it to the place to suppress the strike unconditionally leaving their arms in the barges in which they had been the riot today was the culmination of troubles which have been brei brewing vim 0 at flom homestead estead for the past month th the carnegie company a scale which was to govern the workmen in the steel plants plant sand and announced that it was their ultimatum the scale made a weeping sweeping reduction in the wages wa I 1 of skilled men and it was officially announced that unless the terms were complied with before jul july I 1 the places of the workmen would lie filled by others this was followed by a peremptory refusal on the pari part of the coin company pany to reco recognize alie amalgamated association the men inen announced a determination to resist regist any effort on the part of Ca carnegie carnecie rnezie I 1 to run the plants with nonunion non union men trouble was precipitated by the workmen at homestead hang hanging 0 inc 11 II C prick frick president of tile the company in effigy and in retaliation tile company ordered an shutdown shut down of tile the big bi works the employees at once proceeded to or organize P anize for the defensive and the company erected a high board fence around the entire works giving them the appearance of an immense stoc stockade kadle tile the sides being c pierced with portholes port holes Y esterday es erday the Carneg gle company announced its intention to proceed to b get ready to make maize repairs and the 0 official oili cial asked aked tile the sheriff to appoint point deputies to protect the property the sheriff sent a small squad of men up to the works but tile strikers assembled in force and notified n 0 them to get out of town no divider was intended and no damage would be done to property they chev even offered to be sworn in as deputies and give bonds for the faithful perform performance ance of the duties as ah conservators conservatory conserva tors of pence peace when tile the offer was declined tile the ad advisory visor committee which had been directing the action of the workmen and sp spirits iritts among the workmen in check was immediately dissolved and nil all records of the I 1 e co committee promptly destroyed the developments today to day day showed that the applications made for BE ae istance of the sheriff was merely for the purpose of covering ft what was intended to be a coup de main un oil the part of the carnegie company in clandestinely introducing a boll body y of pinkerton guards into tile small enalo enclosure ure these men have bavel been leer rendezvoused some live five or six EIX miles below tile llie city on oil the ohio I 1 liver iver at which two model barges have been prepared for then them the bar barges 0 cs were fitted up lip with bunks cooking arrangements anti ami other accommodations and with extra precaution is as if in pre preparation pa ration for the sic siege ge to which they thy were subjected today they were lined with heavy steel plates on the inside while t the i hole back of the deck was war prote protected ctol in a similar manner it was the intention of the men that they should reach the works at 3 this aliis moi morning ning but the strikers on duty along the river got 7 word of the threatened invasion of the hated bated pinkerton men and prepared to receive thern them the barq barges were towed up the river by a 1 tug boat I 1 lut lit long before the pinkerton men 1 readied reached homestead bbous thousands sands of strikers I 1 gathered on oil tile the bank of the river teady ready to give them a warm welcome ahn the boats attempted to land the boa boatmen tinen broke through the fence surrounded the mill entrenching themselves behind piles of steel prepared to resist the landing lan dinc by 4 in the morning morning an efrost ims made to land tile the detectives but the strikers met them and a battle was precipitated buth both sides rides exchanging heavy volleys of shots the pinkertons Pink ertons being armed with winchester ter rifles but at tile the point where tho attempt to land was made there was a steep e embankment n ban kment and they were compelled 1 e 1 l to go in tingle ingle file and were soon boon driven back to the boats 1 by tile the ste steady ady fire from the shore tile the noise of the battle spread about the borough boroug li like wildfire and thousands of men m en women and children thronged thron ged to the river bank to wit ness the fight in progress the pinkerton men were determined to land and they poured volley after volley into the ranks of the strikers many many of whom were stricken down by bullets some fatally injured and others killed autri outright 0 lit As tile battle progressed tile the strikers took up a position behind breast works hastily constructed of steel rails and from this place of safety were able to pick oil the guards guard sas as soon as they appeared on the decks of the boat in the antime inc ine captain ilind hind and superintendent in kline of the Pink pinkertons ertons were disabled and the firo fire became so fierce that the crew of the tow boat hastily cut loose from the barge and steamed up the river carrying as many wounded as they cound reach to braddock irom which point they went verd sent to hospitals at the strikers were carried to their homes at homestead the dead being carried to the undertaking establishments in town news news of the riot reached pitts burg burgas as early as 0 6 in the morning orning atia and thousands of mill workers now idle congregated in the streets while hundreds of 0 others bothers arrived with guns 1 uns and revolvers and well sup supplied p lied with ammunition took to ille march to reinforce the strikers As soon as the day broke the strikers secured a small brass ten cannon and planted it within a steel billet cm cill blazure so os as to ca minand the barges at the same time it a foree of D more than a thousand men took up a position po stion on oil the opposite side of tile the river river and also planted a cannon which they protected with a breast it oi k of ofrain railroad road ties shortly before 9 the cannon was t turned urn d on oil the boats and for several hours an ail a awful fal bombardment was kept up the boat was splintered but tile the lie heavy ivy steel plates inside prevented tile the ball from penetrating in the interior yany many of the strikers st however were expert marksmen and they sent shot after shot into tile portholes port ioles holes of the boat and inflicted terrible injury to the men the day was one that will be remembered in horror borror by the people of the borough C and citizens of t the lie entire country who for tho cond time will be called upon t liay r ay 6 an enormous amount of ammy entailed in the shape of riot losses the pinkerton men were not sworn n as s during the afternoon ully fully f five thousand men walked into II 11 stead s they came from the south side ide of pitt bourg and many were armed in one delegation there were about two thousand mill workers they carried flags and proclaimed th that at they proposed to stand by bythe the homestead workers in defending t tho the mill at auy any cost 4 pm scenes in homestead today to day are hard to describe tho the streets are arc filled f with men and women and particularly the narrow roads leading to mill hero cone congregated rega th thousand of men wom women en and children many of the latter weeping and wailing on tho the hill fiill hack back of the works there was a crowd of fully people floell this eminence a view of tile the battle was obtained without running v any risk meanwhile the pinkertons Pink ertons were huddled under the leek deck dragging in the dead and caring for the wounded and waiting for what seemed certain doom as all overture of surrender had been refused at last hugh odonnell leader of tile strikers keis grasped an ail american flag and mounting a pile of iron made mad au an impassioned speech for mercy for the pinkertons Pink ertons wa who 0 were ere ayi lains ng I 1 like i k e ca caged 0 1 I in wolves ol 01 ves i in n tile the barges the extraordinary power of odonnell over the strikers became manifest at once A few people demurred and cried out lets burn them y but they were silenced lets turn them over to tile the make information for murder against I 1 them raid paid the leader this was received with cheers and when the strikers waved their hands and asked the pinker tons to surrender ur render there was an immediate response from the boat at the pinkertons Pink rink ertons were allowed to came ashore no sooner had the guards 0 reached the river banks than th the e barges barge were charged on 1 by y the crowd of men won women aen anti and children the cooking utensils bedding etc were tere handed over to the women and children cli ildren while the men seized on the large store of rifles and ammunition these rifles were all of the finest pattern all in perfect condition and with the quantity of ammunition ammu nation were I 1 it a great acquisition to the strikers after the barges were thoroughly looted they were fired and soon burned to the waters edge |
