Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21
AFFAIRS AT HOMESTEAD.


Preparations for the Accommodation OF
Non-Union Men at the Carnegie Mills
A Number of ..Black Sheep Already
| Inside the FoId-GerI. Snowden and His
staff I3oycotted by the Walters at the
Carnegie HoteI-The First Brigade I'm
der Marching Orders at Mount Gretna.
HOMESTEAD Pa, July 15.-Prepara-
| tions for placing nonunion men IN the
| Carnegie mills are going forward. The
Tide came up the river from Pittsburgh
| this morning and proceeded direct to the
| landing place at the works. gang of
men were waiting for her and her
| freight, consisting of cots, blankets,
tents and camp utensils We're I'M
| loaded and placed inside the mill
property. The poor-farm property,
| which is inside the big fence and is now
the property of the Carnegie company,
contains a big level field which will
make a good camping ground for work.
men, and the large building which has
been used for the county poor will hold
| number. 1t is evidently the in
tention of the Carnegie people to utilize
| this portion of their plant, which is To-
Gated SO admira bly, for the purpose as
to suggest the possibility that the pres
| fully prepared for long in advance.
A number of incidents tending to en-
| courage the lockedout men in their
position have happened to-day. Allen
Hubbard, the foreman of the armor
plate shop of the Carnegie mill. quit
| work to-day. He refused to work I'M
| der police protection, and declared that
| if the militia were to be used for police
| duty in order to operate the mills he
would not work there, but would seek
| employment elsewhere. The entire
| force of the civil engineering depart
| ment of the mills also quit work out of
| sympathy with the lockedout men.
The Nom Union Men Are There.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 15.-There is
no doubt that the nonunion workmen
| are inside the gates of the Carnegie
plant, but their number is SO small
that they are practically a dead letter
in connection with the operation of the
mills. These men entered the works
quietly at an hour when suspicion was
stilled and arrangements forth cir COM
fort until a larger force comes
to join them have been made.
Some of them are believed to have en-
lcIcu w lllc river lToHt. "Hllc olllSIS
| came by train to Homestead and min
gled with the people without exciting
suspicion Their number cannot be as
| certained, but it is certain that nc
great body of men such as would be re-
quired to run the works could have en-
tered the mills without being seen.
If the nonunion men came last night
or in the early hours of this morning.
| they must have displayed some gener-
alship in eluding the many watchers
who sat along the river banks or near
| the entrances to the Carnegie property
| until daybreak.
The leaders of the strikers wear an
air of supreme confidence. They say
| that they have won the fight and that
| the Carnegie company realize this, or
will realize it when they have tried the
experiment of running the works for
few weeks with green hands. All in
terest centers in the probable introduce
ton of enough nonunion men to start
the mills and the strikers spend most OF
their time discussing the situation.
Some are inclined to think the Carne-
gle company will win, but the result
does not appear to be any indication
of acquiesence in the statement of Mr..
Lovejoy, secretary to Mr.. Frick, that
fully two-thirds of the Homestead
workers will go back to their vacant
posts when the mills are started.
Gen. Snowden and His Officers Boycotted.
HOMESTEAD. Pa, July 16.-Opposite
the main entrance to the steel works
stands Carnegie's hotel. Since the ar
rival of troops the staff officers have
been taking their meals there. Yester-
day the manager of the hotel was in.
formed by the head waiter that unless
he refused to entertain Gen. Snowden
and other division and regimental
officers who had been eating at the
Hotel Carnegie, the help would
strike. The head cook also
sent word that he would not
prepare any more meals for members
of the staff. When Gen. Snowden and
other officers repaired to the hotel yes.
terday morning, prepared to get away
with the regular layout of ham and
eggs. they found that they had been
placed under the ban of boycott.
There was but one waiter in the place,
and he said it was his painful duty to
inform the guests that they could get
W cbts Iudt tHC CoOh Adu
joined in the boycott against militia
men, and that if they waited to get a
meal in that particular hostelry it
would be a ong and dreary stay.
Gen. Snowden had not slept we'll,
and emphatically refused to grasp the
humor of the situation. He gave ut
terance to a few choice expressions and
Fastening back to his headquarters, he
lost no time in issuing orders to the
cook with Battery B for breakfast
Under Marching Orders.
HARRISBURG, Pa. July 16.-The first
brigade of the National Guard of Penn
sylvania which is encamped at Mount
Gretna. is making every preparation to
go to Homestead at a moments notice.
Yesterday afternoon q detachment of
soldiers was in the city to obtain addi-
tiona1 ammunition A special train
has been provided for the immediate
transportation of the troops to Home
stead. In case they are ordered all
tents will be left behind.
The colonel OF Philadelphia regi-
ment said yesterday that they ex-
pected to be called out at almost any
time.
A Fishy story.
CINCINNATI, July 16.-An afternoon
paper says: Since Sunday there have
beeL collected in this city by a certain
well-knOwn detective agency two hum