Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-22
AZ HOMESTEAD.


HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 81 This was the
last day Of grace allowed by the Carnegie
arrangement for striking steel makers and
other employees of Homestead mills to ap-
PLY for reinstatement. Scores of work
mon were putting in applications. But II
was not at the Carnegie Office that the work
was to he had for the asking. but ut the
rooms of the Amalgamated Association ad-
visory board and the headquarters of the
Mechanics and Laborers further down the
street.
Supt. Potter made request at division
Headquarters that no soldiers or officers
should b. admitted to the works unless they
had passes to cross the river on the Little
Bill, which lands there.
He told one Of the officers that he had
received applications for work from over
1000 men, but he was not going to take any
further steps until the day after tomorrow.
The company" he said. has given the
men until July 81 to return to work. We
are going to live up to that.
The relief committee was in session from
. A. NJ. to I 7. NJ. yesterday, distributing
money among needy applicants They
would not tell how much money they dis
tributed or how much each applicant re-
ceivcd. They were kept very busy, AS the
number of applicants was quite large.
The soldiers camp has been invaded in
the night by mysterious circular, anony-
mously distributed in the darkness, and on
both sides of poor white paper, and there
was nothing about it that might lead to the
discovery of the printer or the writer.
These circulars are the talk of the camp.
from Gov. Pattison down to the orderles
and everyone is wondering whether the
Amalgamated Association issued them
They are addressed to the militia, and are
headed by the text:
Choose ye this day whom ye win
serve"
They began thus:
Comrades: We. the workers of Home
stead, appeal to you in the sacred names
of Justice and liberty to help us, your
brothers, in our struggle against the
tyranny of capitalism. We bcseech
YOU not to be the mere tools and playtlfngs
of those who falsely call themselves our
superiors Think of those you leave be-
hind-your fathers, mothers, wives, sweet
hearts, brothers, sisters and friends-they
are our fellow workers and companions in
misfortune.
After this they run on in luri1, Anarch-
istic fashion, telling how the noble workers
are suppressed all over the world. The cir
eular says:
A free citizen, fighting in defence of his
hearth aud home, volunteer who risks his
life to aid an oppressed people--these are
the only men by whom the sword can be
honorably drawn, and any true glory
gained But you are not freemen--you are
mere machines, food for powder, nothing
more. Yet you are but the instruments by
which we and our brou,ers in other lands
are robbed of the fruits of our toll.
1t winds up with an appeal to the soldiers
TO choose whom they will serve.
Gov. Pattison heard of the existence of
these circulars and sent an aid to get one.
tie read it through very carefully and then
sent several men to ascertain if they could
find where these circulars came from.
Nobody, however, could learn anything
about them The strikers deny that they
originated with them, and say it is probably
the work of some anarchists.
Gen. Snowdcn said ard like to find the
man who brought those circulars into camp.
He would never do it again.