The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16
BEGGING FOR MONEY.
If Expenses Are Paid Home
steaders Will Stay Out.
ANOTHER KILLING At THE MILL,
Ffiok Promises to Furnish Steel for the
Navy-Pcwderly Says e. Of L. Have
No Interest 1T stake.

HoMEsTEAp. Nov. 15-Detective George
Wahl was gwen q warrant today for the
arrest of William Ratrof on q charge OF
aggravated assault and battery. When
Ratrof was found he was surrounded bv
crowd of friends. The detective made
known his mission and after struggle Rat
roff was finally captured and nobody hurt.
This evening Charles Biglin. employed in
the mill, while intoxicated gave vent to
several warwhoops, which attracted
crowd, and then began firing revolver.
creating panic. Biglin was finally sup
pressed by being put under arrest, A
mass meeting of Iocked-out men will be
held tomorrow to discuss finances and
strike dement's.
PITTsBUR9, Nov. l5.-It is now l36 days
since the strike inaugurated by the men,
bers of the Amalgamated Association at
the Lawrencevilie and Beaver Falls
Carnegie mills began. Today the Carnegie
company started the Beaver Fails
plant, claiming that 80 far as the
Lawrenceville and Homestead works
are concerned the strike is over.
Nor is it denied by any one that the COM
pany has unquestionably the better of the
fight, although it has been enormously
expensive. A number of strikers at Law
renceville and Homestead are disheartened,
and at the same time there are many more
determined TO fight 1t out If they can
be supported. It is the question OF
finances which is the most serious prob
lem the men have to deal with. A men,
Der of the advisory committee said today
there was no use in holding out false de-
lusions. There are about 900 persons in
Homestead and 800 each in Lawrenceville
and Beaver Falls on the relief rolls. He
said:
O these SO have families, AMI the Amslga-
mated Association contracts % pay them s. per
week. The other $40 get IS per week. making
total OF $l0.4D a week. That is a severe drain
on an organization conpo>ed OF only 900
members Outside financial aid has fallen of
until the question of finance 10 indeed serious.
Max Newman, mont union workingman
at the Carnegie mills, Homestead, last
night shot and killed man supposed to
be named Maynard, in the clubhouse
inside the mill yard. Newman says the
man assaulted him III his bunk, and, be-
Iieving him TO be a striker. he shot him.
Newman was held to await the action of
the coroner's jury.
NEW York, Nov. 15.-The officers of the
American Federation of Labor, the ANAL
the advisory board of the Homestead
locked-out men tonight issued an address
to the American public which sets
forth the situation at Homestead
from the strikers standpoint. It
designates Tuesday, December Is,
as Homestead day, and calls upon the
wageworkers as we'll as the iiberty-loving
citizens of the country to make contribu-
ton of portion of their earnings on that
day to aid 1.-The struggling brothers at
Homestead in their present contest to de-
fend themselves before the courts. Their
cases must be brought before the highest
tribunal of the country, if necessary"
WAsHINeroS CfT9 Nov. l5.-H. c. Frick,
chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company,
was at the navy department today by APP
DO ntment to discuss with Secretary Tracy
the matter of steel deliveries for naval
construction. Much, if not all of the
delay in the completion of the new naval
vessels has been caused by the fact that
steel of the peculiar quality required for
the armor has not been delivered in
sufficient quantity TO keep pace
with the construction. The secretary
feels tina. the difficulty lies in the
insufficient plant for the products OF steel,
and is directing his attention to the sub
ject. Today Frick told him the company
intended to meet the requirements of the
department., and had arranged to purchase
and erect a large quantity of new ma
chiuery and to open the other mills.