Show THE HOMESTEAD RIOTS HOMESTEAD pa july 12 A representative of the carnegie company quietly took of the mill about 10 am a m so quietly in fact that his presence was not known till after noon it to is believed that the carnegie company has baa over a thousand nonunion men ready to jiin run into the is a assured by works as soon as safety having the pinkerton guard now supposed to be scattered about in pittsburg ready to be ordered to homestead Asso aa soon onas as general snowdon snowden established his headquarters he was waited upon by a committee representing the amalgamated association and citizens the spokesman said for them that they welcomed the troops and offered the operation cooperation co of the citizens in preserving order general snowden said eald 1 I thank you for the welcome but I 1 dont donn need any of your operation cooperation co the only way tile the good citizens can now operate cooperate co with us is to go peaceably py the about their business spokesman said the citizens wish to know what time they may give you a public reception snowden replied a 41 1 I can see accept apt no reception it would be most improper I 1 thank you for your courtesy but a formal welcome Is 18 not dot needed it would be an amazing thing if the national guard of pennsylvania was not welcome to tiny any part of the 8 state tate O odonell said on the part of the amalgamated association after suffering an at ack from illegal authority we are glad to have the legal authority of the state here ji 1 I do not recognize your association snowden replied 1191 1 I recognize no do one but the ci citizens of this city ant but we wish to submit odonnell said bald when the 9 general beneral out cut him abort by bi saying then submit to the gentleman behind you indicating sheriff ir macleary Mo Cl Cleary ry 1 I do submit to him said odonnell we have never at any time questioned the sherif sheriffs Ps order odonwell ODo noell ap baled to the sheriff to may ay whether or not they had bad obeyed his orders no you have not said the sheriff you yon refused to lot let my deputies enter the works after some further desultory conversation and an awkward pause the committee oom mitlee departed the committee greatly crestfallen returned to headquarters where an acrid discussion of the tee situation followed general Sn reception was A via PILL waiting was the campaign decided upon as being the only possible policy which could be pursued the patrol of strikers outside of the town and the railroad depots will be continued and every effort made to keep the pinkerton watchmen and nonunion non union men out of town we are not going to commit suicide aid id 1 0 odonnell donnell and consequently r have a ve to come to the inevitable WILL BE HERE for about ten days and it to is said they will be maintained at an expense ot 0 a day how long jong will the tax payers stand that tha tand and when the troops go away as eventually they must how will the situation be changed and other members of the advisory committee are of the opinion that the works will at once be filled union men main but they decline to discuss how they will meet and solve the problem we will be beaten odonnell ODo unell remarked confidentially and the result will prove it now we will take a much rest and wait rr fir the ut nt x at t chapter in th the etory estory 1 no rations were provided for the soldiers and accordingly they are per mitt mitta d to go into town and get meals and the result is in that everybody is a soldier ana strikers did a great deal too much drinking the congressional investigating committee began an inquiry this evening with frick on the stand he was the only witness examined tonight the examination brought out many new features notably the plans by which the pinkerton men were employed and arrangement for their transportation the wages paid and the proposed reduction were all brought out frick was put under a severe cross examina tion he said the company was not a corporation but formed under the limited partnership laws of pennsylvania he said there were men employed at Homes homestead and the wages paid were as foil follows rollers to per montt heathers to heathers helpers trainmen 97 to others average 80 per month the total amount of wages for may after making the statement as to the causes of the strike frick was questioned regarding the cost of production he declined to answer saying that it was not a fair question he also faid eaid that after the sheriff failed to control the strikers he employed Piker replying to a question he be said he had not appealed to the go governor V as experience had bad shown it to be useless us elees cross examined by representative Do boatner atner mr frick stated that the arrangements for was made before negotiations commenced with the amalgam amalgamated cited association frick read letters to the effect that he but bad instructed the captain of the Pinker tous under no circumstances ades to resort to the use of firearms except capt to protect their lives an adjournment journ ment was then taken chairman oates dates informed frick that the committee held under advisement his refusal to answer questions relative tc the cost of production this afternoon 1500 employee emp loyes of carnegles Carne gies upper and lower union mills mille in this city and tho plant at beaver fal 9 met in lawrenceville to consider the homestead affair resolutions were adopted appointing a committee from three of the mills to ask garefal Ga superintendent dillon if the Cir carnegie negle steel company would not agree to confer with the amalgamated association in regard to the homestead scale the committee waited on superintendent dillon later and he promised to make known their action to mr frick BURG july IS 13 lovejoy the secretary of the carnegie company says the threat of the emp employ loyto t a that several of abe th e compan companas comp anys y Is mills are to strike strake unless the company grant a con col ference with the homestead men will I 1 have no effect on the company and that the company will under no circumstances cum stances hold a conference even it if every man in every mill operated by the company goes out THE investigation OF THE congressional GRZES IONAL COMMITTEE the congressional committee continued the homestead investigation this morning with further examination of frick of the carnegie company he detailed the artan arrangement gement with the Pink pinkertons Pinker ertons tona to furnish guards for the homestead property and said the arms were consigned to the union supply com company who delivered them to captain rogers of the pinkertons Pink ertons frick was not sure but he had something to do with the furnishing of arms aims and could not be brought to answer more definitely he believed the pinkertons Pink Pinker ertons tone were advised advise cr that arms would woud be needed but arms anna were riot not stipulated in the employ ment of guards frick said the wages paid at homestead were higher than at any other place captain boatner of the committee declared that the scale ot of wages paid as explained by frick was the highest wages he ever heard beard of captain rodgers was then called and told of his trip to homestead accompanied compa nied by the deputy sheriff who went inan in an official capacity he theo then detailed the story of the fight sat home abad att ad and said that the strikers fired first sheriff mccleary McC Jeary testified that the carnegie company notified him the week before the men went out that there would be trouble and that they were arranging to send men to homestead and alad wanted them deputized d U vied ef IS 18 captain dogem was called and told of the trip to homestead accompanied by a deputy sheriff who went in his bis official capacity he then detailed the story of the fight at homestead and said the strikers fired first sheriff mccleary testified that the th carnegie company had notified him before the men went out that there would be trouble trod ble that they were arran arr aning ing to send men to homestead and wanted them deputized in reply to boatner he said he felt sure sure the matter could have been settled if the conference could have been carried on the objection to the termination of the scale in january was that past pact experience shows shown that when winter coul con es as on and the scale expires the manufacturer takes advantage of the bold old weather to starve the men into submission roberts said he was in favor of compulsory arbitration the witness further stated that during the scale conference abbott the former chairman of carnegie paid quotations on steel billets were 2 lower than the market price and in the scale should be arranged on that basis an error in the statement of wages paid during may was made in last night s investigation it amounted to 2025 it should have been for the inch mill mil not for the whole carnegie property as indicated in the dispatches had not offered to arbitrate after the trouble could nit na say bay whether or not the association to is willing to arbitrate personally in favor of law arbitration but if compulsory it should be made an exhibition was the next witness he said when the strike was ordered the lodges held a 4 joint meeting and appointed an ai a committee to have the men placed around the fence to keep out irresponsible people the men were instructed to use only moral suasion they ahey were not instructed to keep any one out of the null mall the witness repeated the story of the battle and efforts to prevent firing by the crowd on shore his wages were per month eight hours under the old schedule replying to the question as to why the laboring men hate bate the pinkerton Pinker tone he said the chief objection to them was that it was feared they would bring nonunion non union men WILLIAM ROBERTS ex president of the amalgamated association so said there was a gigantic conspiracy somewhere helped by legislation his idea was wag that after the company based wages ois OB the price of 0 billets and had bad refused a rise on that article artic leand and he charges this on the union pacific railway and the carne ies with H C frick at the head noberta roberts said superintendent potter had fiad given as a reason for the reduction that some of the men were making too much money SHERIFF detailed the attempted efforts to secure a posie he was notified the night that the pinkertons Pink ertons tons went up and he tried to persuade them not dot to send lend them as he feared trouble the sheriff aard he be had not authorized colonel gray to deputize the pinkertons Pink ertons oits he did not go to homestead on the day of the trouble because it was useless DEPUTY SHERIFF CLUSEY CLUBBY then took the stand and told a story of how the deputies hal hai been driven out by the strikers riken st president wethe was the first wit bess ess on the side of labor the reductions duct ions be said proposed in most of the departments the men object to because they did not think them neb necessary essary the reduction would average eighteen per cent as near as he could estimate the labor cost of a ton of steel at homestead was in reply to judge taylor as to why the men thought they had a right to take possession of the mill helhe said there may be some who ho think so but they are oot not in the society judge taylor expressed aston astonish leb ment and sald said there seemed to be some queer ideas of rights ot of property among the workmen PITTSBURG july 14 the congressional inquiry into the homestead trouble was comple completed teci today so 90 far as this city is concerned evidence elicited little that was new manager prick frick declared that the com ipaty asked for a reduction of wages because cause the reduction of the price of blooms billets and slates caused the company to lose money on all outputs oh the average cost in the country of producing steel billets is per ton tod exclusive of interest inter ert on the Jn investment vestment he declined to say what the cost coat was at homestead prick frick said the mckinley bill had nothing to do with the proposed reduction in wages the lower prices of the product was the result of over production tion it la is stated that the committee will make a report of the character to help the passage of the compulsory arbitration law jaw and antl anti pinkerton measure both now before congress at the conclusion of t investigation chairman oates gates an bounced that so BO far as the labor branch of the inquiry was concerned it was wag concluded but the pinkerton Pinker tn system would probably be taken up elsewhere the committee leave for washington this thi evening and will submit the report to congress early in the week HOMESTEAD pit pa july 14 while m reial law jaw has not been officially declared in this borough it has taken place to all practical purposes this is the result of illegal arrests by bopf special etal policemen yesterday this morning two additional company troupe troops with twenty rounds of bali cartridges and fixed detailed to patrol the town they were instructed that in case of arrests by the police for any manifest breach of the peace drunkenness or the like they were not to interfere but in all other cases they were to take both prisoner and policeman before the provost mar marshal and if the arrest is illegal al the policeman is to be punished general snowden puts it euphemistically by saying the military will cooperate with the civil authorities in preventing the illegal arrests and somewhat more certain preservation of the peace it was sported reported 1 this morning that the town was officially declared under martial law and the strikers were not at all pleased when they heard board it as they thought it presaged an immediate attempt to turn in nonunion non union men not learned the locked out men are not entirely pleased with the action of car begies men in the other mills mille threatening to strike unless a conference li Is granted the homestead men as an they believe the others can do them more good in case of a long struggle by remaining at work and helping them financially PITTSBURG july 14 this evening both union iron plants closed down and notices were posted by the company warning trespassers to keep 0 off the property about three hundred men are affected by the strike in the two mills the beaver falls fall plant which closed cloned for repairs is in to resume operation on monday next but the men say they will not return to work unless the firm grants another conference to the homestead workers the doling closing down of the two mills will have a depressing effect upon all kinds of business in that part of the city the keystone bridge works Sch effier works and several other const construction e t n mills will doubtless be forced afe to close 1 om increasing the number of idle men to twice that leaving the union mills HOMESTEAD july 14 all da day y long everybody in homestead has been expecting the arrival of four hundred nonunion non union workmen they were scheduled to arrive at sow but up to a late hour the black sheep 11 had bad not mt materialized at a special meeting of the advisory committee tonight it was bel believed levoci that they would be brought by river and the patrols were strengthened on the banks of the monongahela to meet and argue with the it was argued that any resort to violence would be practically treason the pickets were to ask the it if they were taking the places of striking workmen because they needed food for themselves and families if an affirmative reply were returned the cor commit amit tee authorized a promise to help them until they could secure work the situation I 1 is to ame s me extent crit ical because the strict discipline of the troops is very liable to clash chash with the utterly fearless and determined strikers the latter propose to speak 0 t any one they please so long as they are deac 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