Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-03
DEAD LINES DRAWN.
ONE THOUSAND ARMED MEN GUARD
The CARNEGIE WORKS.
Nothing New, However. In the Iron Scale
situation-No Important Change An
ticipated Before Wednesday.
nv telegraph % The Dispatch. !


PrrrsBuna. Pa. July 2.-Fully 1000 men
were on guard ut IL O'Clock last night in
Homestead and around the Carnegie steel
works. There is no possible approach TO
the town and mills that Is not strongly
guarded. and the dead lines" are drawn
clear around the fifty acres of mill-yard.
No ono can pass through the line unless he
has business Of his own that takes him
that way. and even then il he is not MILL
worker OF some sort or resident OF the
town he cannot pass.
tured their plans and the whole body OF
men move together like clcck-work.
There are nine men night and day for each
of the different posts. Twice day the
men report and their work is mapped OUT
for them. To-day q complete system OF
signaling 10 being arranged and the night
guards are being provided with rockets.
The plans have been so well maturec that
/ GOO men can be had at any spot IN hye
minutes, night or day.
To-day the mon are receiving their pay
and notices of discharge.
The best Of order prevails and no trouble
is apprchended.
There is nothing new in the iron-scsle
situation. No more signatures have been
received and no important change 10 the
condition of affairs is looked for before
the scale conference next Wednesday.
FIFTY PuDDIgns STRIKE.
PHILADELPHIA. June 2.-tifty puddlers
employed by Marshall Brothers u Co. THIS
morning joined the Amalgnmated workers,
who are locked odt or who have quit work
until tho scale is signed by the employers.
| The men held a meeting to-day, and are
| firm y Ihafr raanlNa "A Cllt nnfll
the agreement Is signed.
SHUTDOWN ~ ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, July 1.-The first day of
| the Amalgamated-A Association scale was
| marked here by a shutdown Of the Helm
| hacker forge and rolling mills, whose pro-
| prietOrs refuse TO sign the scale, stating
that they cannot run az profit at the
prices named in the scale. as their eastern
competitors paying the Same wages are IN
such close proximity 10 the coal and ron
fields as to have q large advantage.
COLD COMFORT FOR woRKMES.
| PHILADELPHIA. Pa. July "A committee
| Of the locked out wOrkmen OF Hughes x
Patterson waited on the firm to-day in re-
| ference to the latter's refusal to sign the
va .c-scaic of the Amalgamatod Association
of IRON and Steel-W orkers. The senior
| member of the firm referred them 10 n no.
tice which was posted up, as follows:
No member OF the Amalgamatef So
cie,y OF Iron and Steel-Workers Will be
| employed by this iirm.'
! Or. Hughes declares very positively That
the scale will not be signed.
NO CHANGE AT HOMESTEAD.
| PlTTgEuEG. P&., July 2.-There has been
no feature in the situation ut Homestead
tonight and tho town il as quiet as
though there was no strike in progress,
The system Of guards is rigidly maintain
ed by the workmen and q sharp lookout IS
beng kept for the non-union men who
are expected 70 tako the places OF the
| strikers. None of these, however, have
| appeared as yet and nothing Is known as
to the probable time Of their coming.
TWO SCALE sfGNERs.
One more firm signed the Amalgamated
| Association scale to-day the Hartman
Iron Company, of Hartman, Tenn. / ms
males two signers to-day. the other being
the Bristol Iron Company, of Bristol
Penn, employing $50 hands.