Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-31
EVICTING STRIKERS.
The Carnegie Company Obtains Pos
session of Its
TENEMENTS WHICH WERE HELD
By Striking Steel Workers-The
Homestead Mill Rapidly Filling
Up With Non-Union Men-Pot-
ter Says He Can Operate the
Plant Double Turn With 1900
Men.

HOMESTEAD, IA, July oO'- MS
looks like an April moving day in Home
stead with a steady drizzle. All the
wagons which can be secured are in use
transporting the household effects OF
about sixty families out Of company
houses. There is row Of about twenty
FIVE residences Immediately behind the
company hotel which a number or
locked-out men and strikers also occu-
pied. In front Of each door all morning
goods vans were drawn up, loaded and
dispatched, carrying away furniture
which had not been moved for years as
the tenant were old employees Of the
company.
1t was not necessary to use force 10
evict any Of the occupants as they were
prepared to move into other quarters in
preference to returning TO work at the
company's terms, yet the spectacle OF
several hundred men, women and chill
dren slaShing along the Munhall road
under heavy burdens excited much COM
ment, and that there was no hostile
demonstration was due possibly more TO
the presence OF soldiers and deputy
sheriffs than indifference on the part or
the Homestead men. The management
states that it needs the houses for many
of its recent employees who have fami-
lies and desire to keep house as soon as
possible. This will be granted and pro-
lection assured g. soon as the residences
| can be cleaneu.
The management charges that during
the last few days the evicted tenats for
spite broke many windows and doors In
| the houses and otherwise rendered them
unfit for present occupancy.
Treasurer Curry said this morning
that he supposed contracts for thirty
| five houses on the new Carnegie extern
sion Of Homestead had been let, and
they will be pushed to completion as
rapidly as possible. Meanwhile ar
rangements have about been made to
accommodate 1000 men in the works
Continuing, the management stated
that sixty-three additional men arrived
this morning, coming from Phlladel-
| phia, Cincinnati and st. Louis.
This makes s73 men now in the works.
| Among the seekers whom the steamer
Tide brought up was an Amalgamated
man formerly employed at the steel
works. A paper carrier and former
steel workor have also gone back. The
six former in the mechanical depart
| ments who went out last Monday,
though they said their lives were in
danger from the locked-out men, ap-
piled for their positions again to-day,
but were informed that the vacancies
had been filed. Several open-hearth
furnaces are 10 be charged on Monday.
To afford recreation for the men this
evening and tomorrow, an orchestra
will be brought from Pittsburg. Ar
| rangements are making to conduct re-
ligions services in the miA tomorrow,
number Of the new men having asked
Superintendent Potter to send in min
lister.
The Advisory Committee is confident
that by the middle Of next week they
can induce one-half OF the men now
working 70 come out. Just what plan
is to be pursued has not been made
public, but member stated that strong
influence is working toward that end.
The committee has through its sub
committee systematized its work. The
committee makes visits several times
week TO all houses from which
applications for aid come an1
ascertain the exact extent OF
the necessities and what should
be done to relieve the people. BY this
means no one IS left out and the COM
mittee is guarded against imposition.
Chairman Hugh O'Donpell's mysteri-
ous mission east has not developed yet
into any important phase in the strug-
gle, but the people here apparently
place great faith in the result, though
not thirty Of them know where he is,
nor for what he is gone away. Stories
that he has deserted are yet assiduoHsly
spread by few enemies, but all the
steel workers Indignantly repel the cal
umnies.
This would be pay day at the mill,
and men recall ii to one another on the
street this morning with a sort of grim
humor. They are not much depressed
though.
About forty Italian laborers employed
At grading roads in the Carnegie plant
Of lots became Involved in fight among
themselves at six o'clock this morning.
The dispute started over the wife o.
one Of the laborers. Pick handles and
fists were used and number were Sc
verely beaten. The military did not
interfere as there was no disposition on
the part OF the Italians 10 injure any
one but themselves. The fight lasted
thirty minutes and ten men were too
much beaten TO work.
A number Of evicted men are loud in
their denunciations Of the firm, at the
same time they sllege that they were
not given the assistance from the hun
dreds OF idle men which they expected,
and which they allege would have pre-
vented much OF the loss which resulted
from damage 10 furniture. While there
Is no absolute suffering, yet large num-
her of evicted families are tonight quar-
tered in other houses, by reason OF their
own bedding being ruined.
On Monday the Relief Committee will
take steps to replace the clothing and
household goods Of those families which
are too Impoverished to buy new furni-
ture. The rent Of the houses for evict-
ed families has been placed at an aston
ish low rate, and the Advisory
Co guarantee the payment Of
tn ter.
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C. 'o-night, in hopes
ley could easily
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