The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-11
SOLDIERS
FOR HOMESTEAD.
Governor Pattison Calls
Out the Whole PennSy1-
Vania Militia.
NO RESISTANCE LOOKED FOR
The Strikers Bow to the Author
ity of the State-Now
for Non-Unionists.
NO RESISTANCE LOOKED FOR
DeSpairing Outlook for the Popu-
lation of an Entire Town.

HOMESTEAD. Pa, July II, 1899 As
Pattison had ordered out the entire State
militia hurry call was sent for meet
ing of the members of the disbanded Ad-
visery Committee. It was then after
midnight.
The meeting was held behind closed
doors, and of the nature of the delibera-
tions but little is known beyond the fact
that. the.committee was at once reorgan-
lied.
It was given out unoficially after the
meeting had adjourned that the commit
tee had decided not to offer any resist
ance to the tsking of the town or of
The Carnegie works by the militia
SAY THEY'LL SUPPORT THE soLDIERY.
Chairman Hugh O'Donnell of the COM
si<tance would be offered to the soldiery.
Scowling at the questioner, he said, SEN
tentiously:-
Resist the State authority? We are not
parcel Of fools. | tell you, sir, we shall
give the militia all the support they need.
We shall continue our guard watch of the
property till the militia arrive. But the
Pinkertons had better stay away
Burgess John McLuckey of Homestead,
who is himself one of the mill men and a
member of the Advisory Committee of
Fifty, said:-
NO RESISTANCE.
II am sure the troops will meet with no
resistance. l know the men, and they
have the dignity and honor of the State
as much at heart as any other citizen,
They have conducted themselves In this
trouble, since they were locked out of the
shops, with intelligence. There has been
no disorder here, no brawls, save the one
that was brought on by the appearance
here OF band Of cutthroats armed to the
teeth"
One of the men standing near, how
ever. mutte-ed:-
Shall we do nothing if the State sends
men here with guns to shoot us down
like dogs. If the soldiers are coming here
TO protect lot of black sheep and to op-
pose us, why let 'em look out. We are
men. We have families looking to us for
bread. 1t will require a strong arm to
keep us off the men who try to take the
children"
1t Is question If the Advisory Commit
tee can wholly overcome the beligereut
feeling among the workmen before the
arrival of the State troops.
THE woRKMEN ARE GLOOMY,
There is a sad look on the face of nearly
Most of the workmen are overwhelmed
with gloom at the approach of the militia,
They had hoped against hope that Mr.
Carnegie. SO openhanded in gifts of
Libraries and schools and parks. would re-
lent and listen to their plea for the reten-
tlon of the wages they had been receiv-
ing for the work that made him one of
the wealthiest men in the world.
That hope is gone. At the first receipt of
the news from Harrisburg last night there
were some hot-headed ones who talked of
dynamite and murder. but today there is
aquieter and sadder trend of thought
Most of the men say they will submit to
the auth ority of the State and will offer
no opposition to General Snowden and his
troops, but they most solemly declare
that If Mr.. Frick persists in carrying out
the plan he has formed of filling their
there will be more trouble.
GIVES WARNING TO "BLACK SHEEP"
I'VE must bow our heads to the maies-
ty of the State Of Pennsylvania" said
one of the leaders at nine O'Clock this
morning. I'VE shall not oppose the
men from lighting for their bread, and l
fear tn just SO soon as the soldiers
are Withdrawn the men will fall upon
she black sheep who may be sent
here to usurp their places iu the mills,
and the sceDc OF last Wednesday morning
of the war that will eusue.
mo matter about the legal or the moral
right of the thing. Don't preach to an
empty stomach. Don't try to argue with
q man in opposition to the hollow eyes
of his wife and the plaintive wall of his
starving child.
Let us talk sense. These men are
NOT lawfess. Self-preservation is the first
law. of nature. 1tell you that the end is
not yet. and when all is over and pence
comes once more in the Monon gahela
Valley it will not co ne perched on ban
ner of the militia, nor will it glisten in
the steel of Pinkerton Wincbesters.
''Our mea have been locked out BY the
Carnegie Company, and If they refuse to
sLarve or to let their families starve the
great arbitrator OF all will not condemn
tnem. if human laws and social institu-
tions do.'
The men stand about the streets In
grouuS. They have gotten over the first
excitement, and they are now simply
waiting with dropped heads for the COM
ing of the militia and the following black
sheep,