Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-18
From All Quarters. TRICKS LIFE IN DANGER. Many Threatening Letters
 Sent to the Chairman. REVIEW OF ENGLISH POLITICS. Idaho Miners Arrested on
 Leaving the Mines. CONGRESS- TO ADJOURN THIS WEEK,
CONGRESS- TO ADJOURN THIS WEEK.
Rush of Business Preced-
 ing Adjournment.


Making Bids for the old Men-A Circular from the Amalgamated- Assistance from other Organiza- tions-What 8 Ton of Steel Costs Threats Against Tricks Life-SEwo More of the Injured Men Die O,DonnelI Leaves on a Secret Nils. sion.
 HOMESTEAD, July 17.-All is quiet to- day. Up to late tonight no new men had been introduced through the Carnegie gates. The new men are confidently .ex- pected before the formal opening on Thursday. A few of the old employees have already secretly interviewed the mili- tary about the protection which will be afforded to men going to work. A mass meeting was held at the rink this morning at which about four hundred men were present who represent the mechanical de- partment and day laborers. These men are not members of the Amalgamsted, but they have been in sympathy with 1t. Some half dozen speeches were made as to the poster put up by MT. Prick inviting the old men back to work, and after some consideration the following were passed unanimously:
 Resolved, That we are in sympathy with the Amalgamated association, and pledge ourselves to stand with them to the end.
 Resolved, That we consider 1t injustice to the mechanical department and day laborers, and an insult to their manhood, to ask them to work under guard, as we believe in this land of the free all men should be free.
 This means that the repair work which was to have been begun tomorrow will not now be undertaken by the old men, who will not go back to work, and that new men will have to be brought in if the com pany proposes to open the works on Thurs day next, as all the furnaces are cold and much rebuilding will have to be done.
 Many contradictory storiee are being told about these new men. After all the rumors are sifted down there is no truth to be found at the bottom of them. Mr. Shan non of the advisory committee said this evening: "We are not talking wildly when we say we know whati is to be the program. Their efforts will be devoted toward bring ing the old men back. We know that to win this fight all we have to do is to keep our lines firm and let the company do what it will. They cannot make nickel steel ar nor plate without us. They cannot, ex- cept at great expense, do any of the or dinary work of the mills We have in the Amalgamated association the skilled steel workers of America. If they can import labor they will have to be exceedingly smooth.
 "The advisory committee believes that its patrols should be at the seaboard instead of at Homestead. Of the locked-o men now here about six will go to work. The others will come to us and will take prop CT care of them. It will be waiting game. believe we can stand it for five years. I think the Amalgamated associa- tion will go through this struggle without asking dollar from the outside. Help sent to us will be used for the 1000 men not members of our association, idle on account of this difference, but if the help were not sent we would still charge our selves with their support"
 TRICKS LIFE IN DANGER. ::
 Ever since the commencement of labor troubles Chairman Prick has been in receipt of many letters from anarchists and labor men threatening his life. The letters are all decorated with skulls and crossbones. MT. Prick says he is not in the least afraid.
 A circular has been sent out by the Amalgamated association asking for aid from their brethren throughout the coun- try.
 COST OF A TON OF STEEL.
 PITTsBURG, July 17.-A paper here says that when the congressional committee held it's investigation here last week its chief object was to discover the exact amount of money expended in the manu- facture of ton of steel. MT. Prick re- fused to give the desired information, and the Homestead workmen who were wit nesses did all in their power to obtain the figures, but it was useless. Great caution was exercised to prevent the publication of these figures, but the cost of making @ total of basic open-hearth and of acid open hearth has been secured. These grades of steel are more expensive than the Bessemer figures taken from the books of Carnegie, Phipps & Co. on December 28, 1889, show the cost per ton of making acid 70. H." was as follows: Materials, $24. .54; labor, S1 65; maintenance and repairs, 42 cents; superintendence, clerical help, office ex- penses, 37 cents. Total cost per ton,
 The figures for basic 70. H." were: Materials, $21.36; labor, s1.90; mainten- ance and repairs, 70 cents; superintend- ence, clerical help and office expenses, 45 cents. Total cost per ton, $24.41. As will be seen the above figures gov erned in December, 1889, at which time | the men were working under sliding | scale of $50 ton. After that there was l drop every three months until it reached the minimum, s25. On July 15, 1885, &C., cording to the American Manufacturer, acid O. H. steel was selling at 2a cents per pound, or $55 ton, while the first cost of production was $2698. In order to be just it is necessary to emu merate the expense attached of rolling @ ton of acid into plate, and also the cost l in the slabbing mill, and the total cost of one ton reaches $41. With the market quotations at that time it is said that the profit to the Carnegie Co. per ton was $14. Two per cent. off is allowed on their figures for cash sales. The cost per ton of basic O. H. quoted selling price, etc.,
 would net profit of something like $16 a ton. Since then the reductions accepted in all departments have made the cost of labor much lower.
 l President Wiehe of the Amalgamated
 association, when shown the figures, said:
 According to the original agreement
 made in 1889 it was stipulated that the ba-
 sis of scale should be regulated by the sell
 ing price of Bessemer by steel
 billlets. Open hearth steel is a
 finer grade and commands higher
 price, but the Homestead men
 manufacture it on the Bessemer billet ba-
 sic. The present selling price of by
 billets is $24 ton and for this reason the
 men, recognizing the condition of the
 market, agreed to come down to a $24 minimum basis. MT. Prick first wanted il
 $22 and then conceded $23. If these rates
 were accepted just think of the increased
 profits the company would receive. IT
 July, 1889, Bessemer pig was quoted al $16 35. In the same month of 1899 it wal
 quoted at $14 a ton, showing decrease
 of $2 35. The average quotation of stat.
 plates is $1.s0 per 100 pounds, whict |, makes $36 ton at 2.000 pounds per ton The men are paid on basis of 2,24( , pounds to the ton. This proves that tn, r company is 240 pounds ahead on the deal.
 When reporter visited Homestead ant displayed tho figures to the leaders of tn,
 men they were almost dumbfoundet
 and at first refused to believ
 they were bona fde. George Ky
 lands, one of the best posted mel , on wages rates, said: "The only thing lack
 ing is the cost of Bessemer 4x4 billets
 This if secured would knock Mr. Prick sill
 in his figures on the wages paid the mel = during May" a.
 There is possibility that the leader will take action on, the above figures. Thi