Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-28
VhoAle tleNeV Men?
A Mystery in the Edgar Thomson
 Steel Works Trouble.
IT HAY LEAD TO VIOLENCE.

If She Engineers Who Have Taken the Strikers Places Prove to Be Brother hood Men the strike May Spread to
 the Railroad.
 NEW YORK, April 2S.-A special to The World from Pittsbu1g says: sThere is mystery in the air at Braddock. Every act of the the bosses at the big steel works is done with an air of mystery. The countenances of the thousands who haves for months waited and hoped for an adjustment of the difficult ties between them and their employers are more solemn than ever. They are on the streets in larger numbers than usual, and there is in their faces no signs of weakening, but quiet determination. They are quiet and orderly, but theirs is calm from which a storm may come at any moment. The bosses have made new move, a move the men do not fully understand as yet, but which, if their suspicious prove true, may give new aspect to the strike, may even lead to vio- lence.
 1.-The transportation department of the steel works employs many engineers firemen and brakemen to handle the freight that goes to and from the mill These men all went to work on Monday, but struck again Monday evening to assist the Knights in their struggle. Thursday evening seventeen engineers and
 
 places. This fact was soon bruited about among the men. It was said the newcomers were Brotherhood men, and that they had been sent by the Pennsy lvania road, whose loss, owing to the strike st the steel works, has been large, and which was glad to assist the Edgar Thomson to resume work.
 Whether this is so is not known as yet, but the strikers have credited the run1or, and consternation and anger followed in its train. Threats were freely made that the new men should not work, and body of the strikers stopped three of them near the works. Two Pinkerton men saw the proceeding and hur- ried to the ground and took the new men in charge. but not until they had heard the warning, sYou are marked men," The sheriff has ordered posse of forty men to go to Braddock, and there remain in anticipation of troublax The sheriff states that while everything is quiet, he thinks that it is better to be on the safe side, and for that reason decided to send his posse in.
 "An investigation is in progress to learn who the new engineers and fremen are and whence they came striking engineer said that he talked to one of the newcomers, who told him that they were Brotherhood men, and showed him his card On the other hand, Brotherhood man declared that the new men were not Brotherhood men, and that no members of the organization would be allowed to take the places of any of the strikers, but would be expelled from the or ganization if they did.
 Members of the Brotherhood who are in Braddock are looking into the matter now, and if it is shown that the men who came are members of the Brotherhood, and that they have been sent by the Pennsylvania railroad, as is alleged, it is more than probable that the steel works strike will spread to the rail- road. The breaking up of the strike in the transportation department affects not less than 40 men, and some of these belong to the Brotherhood.
 ''Another report that added to the strikers anger was that three carloads of skilled workmen were on their way to Braddock from the Lochiel Iron works in Harrisburg. When the rumor reached Master Workman Jamison he said:
 I have just received a telegram from our agent in Harrisburg saying that no men are coming here from those works. This IS an other report that has it's origin in the general office I have letters from Chicago telling me the men there are with us in the fight, and that the Edgar Thomson will get no skilled workmen from that quarter. I have letters from all parts of the country. The writers ask us to stand firm, for they know if we break it's means reduction to them. About the only rail mill have not heard from is the Joliet mill, which is the only one controlled by the Amalgamated association. ,"