New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-22
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contributed from their earnings to this sporting
gents hoard every month Of their lives. There
are undoubtedly more saloons in Homestead than
there ought to be, but after one has partaken OF
Homestead water he isn't quite rabid the sub
ject of total abstinence he may be where Croton
is plentiful We are disposed to revile our un6l-
tered Croton. Compared with Homestead cistcrn
water it is pure as crystal Beer is the common
beverage of the masses in Homestead and it has al
last one virtue-it is not brewed with Homestead
water an ingredient.
Homestead has population Of 10, 900, and there
is not bookstore in the town! The only news
agent in the place keeps in stock about hundred
papercovere novels and he told me that he did not
sell one Of them in week There is not even a cir
cuating library, public reading room nor
club About 400 daily, afternoon and evening
newspapers sold in the town. The steel mills
and the saloons monopoze large part of the men
| tai and physical faculties of the community.
POWER OF THE AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION
For defects of paving and water the citizens are
responsible. Homestead is borough, and Of
course its chief executive officer is called Burgess
The Burgess is quiet man, who dresses neatly,
and even stylsllly and who, in ordinary converse
ton. talks well and temperately. But the Burgess
is a skilled workman in the Carnegie mills and an
influential officer of the Amagamated Association.
Nearly all Of the citizens of Homestead are also
members of the Amalgamatcd Association. II Is
easily susceptible OF proof that when, one of the
wOrkmen in the steel mills and an officer of the
Amalgamated Association, the Burgess Of Homestead
is ordered to do certain thing he loses entirely
his official character Burgess, and remains he
will always be, no doubt, the subject of his labor
organization Az most of the other citizens are his
fellow workmen, lie has need to fear any serious
effects resulting from the merging of his official
with his industrial or professional character There
are, however, in the town, number of tradesmen
uho have, for them, a large amount Of capital In
vested in their respective enterprises. Those men
have absolutely official representation in the local
government. They entirely helpless and as they
realize that fact, they entirely voiccless. They
are quiescent. A protest would bring a boycott.
and boycott In Homestead would mean bank
ruptcy There is no other conclusion, then, than
Of Homestead, Its council, its government The
laws Of the State of the county and of the borough
or all as nothing compared with the dctum OF the
organization which embraces per cent of the cit
izens In its membership
There is not shadow of a doubt that the
burgess Of Homestead and every constable under
his command, could place their hands within
an hour upon every workman who fired q shot
on the morning Of July G, when so much blood
was shed: This is naked truth. and has no
about the sanguinary battle It merely explans
the inefficacy Of the local police power in cases
Of violations of the law and proves Of itself that
the labor lorganzations regulations are held
above the sacred obligations of officers Of the
State county or borough.
The constables, in sympathy with the local
administration, is natural, are hand in glove
with the strikers They keep watch upon all
strangers, and have at heart only the interests
3f the predominanH hOwer-tlle malgamated
Association Not one of these constables has
endeavored to assist the officers OF the county
since the morning Of July 6.