The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-07-14

OUT WOEhm6u dtI6uu6u d mass mOOl-
ing held yesterday. The assembly
was called to order at noon in the
Homestead rink by President Weihe,
of the amalgamated association. Re-
porters and all outsiders were eXclu
ded Mr.. Weihe introduced VIM.
Brennan, one of the attorneys of the
association, who made speech urg-
ing a pacific attitude. He told his
hearers that they must not continue
their present hostile attitude; they
must abandon their arms and act in
the interest of peace. He said that
if they refused to allow the sheriff
to place his men in charge of the
Carnegie works, the militia would be
called out by the Governor and those
who attempted further interference
with legally constituted authority
would be shot down. The militia,
he said, had no i'll feeling towards
the workingmen. but they would be
OBLIGED TO OBEY ORDERS
and would shoot if they were so di
rected. One of the leaders of the
locked out men told the assembly
that while the people of the country
were in sympathy with the locked
y
with rioting and resistance to legal
authority. He said the sheriff in
taking possession oe the works would
be simply doing his duty and abjured
his hearers not to interfere with him
if he attempted to do SO. After an
other leader of the workmen had
followed ir the same vein and
strongly urged settlement of the
wage difficulty by arbitration it was
agreed that Messrs. Weihe, Garland,
Brennan, O'Donnell and other Off
cials should go to Pittsburg to con
fer with the sheriff on the situation
and ascertain from him what he in
tended to do. The meeting then, at
one o'clock, adjourned until later in
the day to give the committee an
opportunity to do this.
BRILLIANT WORD PICTURE.
The works of the Carnegie Steel
Company are located at Homestead,
a town eight miles southeast of
Pittsburg. 1t is situated pictur-
esquely on the banks of the Monon-
gahela river, overlooking one of the
most placid waterbeds in the State
of Pennsylvania. Across the river
is a row of winding hills. now YER
dant with the bloom of summer.
Towering bluffs and wooded noun
tains surround the valley which cen
tres on the quiet little borough, and
that entire valley might properly be
named the seat of Andrew Carne
gie's industries. It was he that
built the borough as it now stands.
1t was he that planted there one of
the greatest industries known to the
living labor world. Here are $4,000
souls dependent for existence on the
wages paid by Andrew Carnegie
weekly.
The monthly payroll of the com
pany amounts to $20O,0OO sometimes
exceeding that amount. This in
itself shows the dependence of the
town upon the manufacturer. Gov
ering an area of 600 acres of land,
the works stretch out from the Pitts
burg City Farm to Marshall Station,
on the McKeesport and Youghioheny
Railway, roaring louder than the
beat of the hurricane.driven ocean
against granite cliffs, Kissing more
penetratingly then the swirl of Nj
agara's cataract, rivers Of molten
steel, hotter than the seething me-
tallic streams from Vesuvius in the
days of Pompeii, showers of golden
meteors like the expulsion from one
centre of the stars of the heavens,
the earth vibrating as under seismic
action, the air oppressively hot md
sulphurous, scene of ideal hell
the end of the world-dwarfing in
it's awful realism the ideas and de-
scriptions of Dante, master of ''The
Inferno" AS one Hand controls the
streams, the ocean, the stars, the
universe, SO one operator, standing
in pulpit of levers. controls and
guides that wonderful world of me-
chanicism, the source of all this un
earthly confusion.