The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-22
THE HOMESTEAD WAR.
Leader O'Donnel1 May Not
Be Ba1led-Statement
of Grievances.

PITTsBURG, Pa, July %. S02.-Judge
Magee has decided to hear The applica-
stion for bali in the cases of O'Donnell and
Ross tomorrow morning. Meantime
they will remain in Jail.
The impression gaming ground among
the men is that the application will not
be successful. McLuckie was let out
clearly on the gr ounds that the judge did
not think he would be indicted for muir
der in The first degree, as he was not
present at the attack on the barges.
This is not the case with O'Donnel1 and
Rose, who were recognized leaders of the
strikers, and present all through the en-
gagement. and will be charged with muir
der III the first degree.
1t was stated TO day that the Carnegtes
would make strenuous efforts to keep
these men in Jail. as mauy, even of the
strikers, think the whole movement
would so to pieces without O'Donnell.
THE STRIKERS POSITION.
The ADVISORY Committee on the Home
stead 10 ckout has prepared the following
statement
''Tne employees in the mill of Messrs.
Carnegie, Phipps & Co. at Homestead,
have nuilt there town, with it's homes,
its schools and its churches; have for
many years been faithful co-Workers With
vested thousands of dollars of their saw
ings in the said mill in the expectation of
spending their lives in Homestead. and
of working in the mill during the period
of their efficiency.
I'm addition to the ordinary gifts and
advantages of our Government, the
national Legislature has seen fit to speci-
ally foster and protect by public taxation
the Industry of their mills, and the State
OF Pennsylvania is today guarding it at
great and extraordinary expense.
Therefore the committee desires to ex-
press to the public as its firm belief that
10th the public and the employees afore-
said have equitable rights and interests
in The said mill which cannot be modified
or diverted without due process of law,
that the employees have the right to
continuous employment in the said mill
during efficiency aud good behavior, with
out regard to religious, political or eco
nomic opinions and associations; that it
is against public policy and subversive of
the fundamental principles Of American
liberty that a whole community of work
ers snouid be denied employment or
suffer any other social detrimenJ on ac-
count OF membership in church, Il p1-
htical party or q trades union; that it is
our duly as American citizens to resist
by every legal aud ordinary means
the unconstitutional, anarchic and
revolutionary policy of the Carne-
gle Company. which seems to evince
/. contempt of public aud private inter-
ests and disdain Of the public con-
sclence by its refusal to submit to lawful
arbitration, and by the lawless importa-
ton of a band of armed mercenaries to
forcibly deprive the employees of the
equitable rights in advance of any legal
adjudication thereupon, and without
previous appeal to the lawful forces OF
Allegheny county and the State of Peun-
sylvania.
LAW SUITS THREATENED.
"The committee wish it SHOWN that we
will prosecute the said public and private
interests in the courts Of law aud equity,
and that we demand of Congress, and
the State Legislatures. distinct assertion
of the principle that the public bas an in
terest in such concerns as that at Home
stead, and that the State has a duty to
Judge the affairs of sucn concerns when
occasion may require"
The strikers said today that only seven
Amalgamated Association men took ad-
vantage of yesterday as the last day OF
grace and returned to work. One hun
dred non-union men and 600 new cots
were taken to the works yesterday. Su-
perintendent Porter said last night that
he had decided to serve notices on the oc-
cupants of the twenty-five Carnegie frame
houses behind the Carnegie arms to get
out of the houses in ten DAYS. The
tenants are all striking employees Of the
coup ny.
Increased activity was noticeable inside
the big mill fence today. Non-union
workmen were arEiving by squads of
from ten to twenty at a time by boat
from Pittsburg. aud got in unobserved
through the town OF Homestead.
The armor plate mill, the open hearth
mill aud the press shop We're in operation
today. Steel was passed through the
Tolls of the 119-inch mill today.