The state chronicle., 1892-08-09
$4,000 A DAY
Is WHAT THE CARNEGIE COM
PANY Is LOSING.

PANY Is LOSING.
So Says President Samuel GOmpers-|
NOn-U MON Men Deserving the
WOrks-The Strike at Du-
quesne BrOken-(seneraI
News From the Dis.
turbed Regions.
By Telegraph TO the State Chronicle.
NEW YORK August S.-President
Samuel Gompers, of the American Fed
Grafton of labor, returned from Home
stead todt sHe said he thought the
situation was favorable to the strikers
and he believes they will win He did
not think that there are more than 1900
men at work and of these great many
were idle and loafing about the yard.
Continuing. Mr.. Compers said that there
was very little iron or steel coming from
the mills and that more steam was being
made than anything else, and that the
Carnegie company was losing $50, 600 a
day.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, August 9.-The non
union men are deserting the Carnegie
steel works by wholesale. They are
coming out singly, in pairs and groups.
Since Saturday evening considerably
over hundred men have deserted and
have been received with open arms by
the locked-out men, who are in ecstacies
of delight at the new turn in affairs. In
consequence, they are now more conf
dent than ever that it will be only short
time until the company will give in and
they will be taken back by their former
employers and their organization recog-
nized. The break at Duquesne this
morning had no perceptible effect on the
locked-out men at Homestead and ere
ated no surprise.
DUQUEsNE, Pa, August 9.-Between
five and six hundred men effectually
broke the strike in the Carnegie mill at
this place at six o'clock this morning by
returning to work in a body. The re
pairmen had the mill ready for running,
steam was turned on and several depart
ments were started at most full and begun
to turn out finished steel. The small
crowds of the men who had not taker
advantage of the company's offers stood
near the mill gates just outside Of the
; line guard by the soldiers. watching tn,
men return without word
, PITTsBURG, August 0.-Richard Mich
oils, night superintendent and pud
die boss at the 33rd street mill, resigned
last evening and to-day made report t
, the strikers of the operations of the mil
7 since non union men went to work Nom
t of the iron made by the non union men
he says, has been worth anything, being
I burned and sent to the ''scrap pile" HI
reports the company has really accom-
/ plished nothing, but has spent grea
deal Of money in attempting to run wit
the unskilled workmen now employed
! Nichols, the strikers claim, is spy 70
/ the company and they say his resignation
S is scheme to obtain knowledge of thei
movements. He was not received wit
/, any violent demonstrations of delight
f PIrTsBURG, Pa. Aug. S.-Secretar
y Lovejoy was asked this morning by
United Press reporter what was the pla
S of his company toward the Homestea
r strikers. He said: "We have started
on this conquest of riot by law and
II will be carried to finish. There will /
t anywhere from fifty to one hundred an
|. fifty more informations on murder an
+ aggravated riot charges made again
d Homestead strikers before we are throug
It with them"
it PITTsBURG, Pa, August S.-W. ]
e Brennan, of the Amalgamated associ;
It ton, says the strikers do not intend
e be behind the company in the matter
e prosecutions, and the riot charges w
d be made early this week against Il
s, members of the firm and the Pinkerton
1t The association, he says, is waiting fC
is certain information, when somethir
&c else may turn nm,
a. HOMESTEAD, Pa, August Sit wou
ID be hard to find more jubilant or mo
ty hopeful set of men than are the HON
ns stead strikers tonight. Not since t
st beginning of the present conflict ha
they been so confident of success. tn
sudden change in the situation W
brought about by so many of the col
pany's non-unionists deserting their pO!
I'd today. From the time the main entran
re to Fort Frick was opened this morni
We until it closed this evening men continu
ut to leave the mill. Those who came o
en- through the main gate were receive
tn with open arms by the strikers who &C
he Quoted them to the headquarters t.
he squares distant Here was assembled
,m through the day several hundred IL
on steel workers, and the arrival of ca
nix non union man was the signal for che
rd of the most enthusiastic kind. I
ed deserters from the little arl
ito of imprisoned workmen WI
tx provided with transportation
Der their homes, the majority
ur them being sent to Baltimore and Phi
i'm delphia. By eight o'clock tonight
nd who left the works during the day /
been started on their homeward journ
Lieut.. Col. Streater was unanimously
c'. elected to his position in the Tenth re
ment this evening, his term having
pired. This is a complete vindicat
he of his course in the private 1ams af
on by the latter's comrades. When
tn news reached this side of the river
ad, three regiments gave three hearty che
sed for Joy. Iams, who is here, was gres
aid chagrined.
ert -~.>--
ke, COdifyfng the Pension Laws.
les By Telegraph to the State Chronicle.