Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-22
DECLARED ORR.
End Of the Great Strike at the
Homestead Mills.
After Another Hard Struggle for
Supremacy,
Labor Yields Another Point to
Capitals Demand.
THE AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION
EtNAi v rtyJro IM
THE AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION
FINALLY GIVES IN.

FINALLY GIVES IN.
THE VOTE ON TaE IMPORTANT
QUESTION STOOD 10l TO Oh.
Those Wh" Favored Calling the Strike on
Are JnbiInut While Those Who Op.
posed IL Are Correspondingly De.
pressed III istory of One of the Most
Famous Labor Demonstrations In the
History of the Country BIlIlions Lost
in Wages-The Victory Apparently Com.
ploto for the Carnegie Company.
PITTsBURd, Nov. 90. The great strike
Ct Carnegie's HOMESTEAD steel works has
been declared off After almost five
months struggle the army Of strikers
finally decided Sunday to give up the
fight. This action was taken at meet
ing of the lodges of the Amalmated as
ISOLATION at Homestead in the after
noon, the vote standing t01 in fav or of
declaring the strike off and 81 against it.
= Among those present at the meeting
were Vice President Carney, Secretary
Kilgallon, Treasurer Madden and David
Lynch, Of the advisory board. The
officials addressed the members, and in
plain words told them the strike was
lost and advised them to take steps to
better their condition.
The remarks met with considerable
opposition, but when The vote was taken
it showed a majority Of 10 in favor OF
declaring the strike Oft. Those who
were in favor of calling the strike off
were jubilant, while tsose who were
against it were badly put ont.
The news of Sundays action was re-
ceived with dismay by the strikers in
the two Lawrenceville mills of Car
negie. These men were sympathetic
strikers, and went out rs the men at
Beaver Falls and DuQuesne struck
The DuQuesne men gave up the fight in
three weeks, and the Beaver Falls
strikers declined to go back Saturday
The Lawrenceville mon, however, were
steadfast, and had no intention of Civ
ing in. They are very bitter against
the Homestead strikers.
The Lawrenceyillc strike will now
fail by reason of the cause for its con-
tinuance being removed,
History OF the Strike.
PITTsBURG, Nov 90 The Homestead
strike, or lockout, will be recorded as
one of the most famous labor demon
STATIONS in the history Of the country.
The men were locked out June %. five
days before the expiration of the old
wage scale, and from th&5 time until
July 6 the Carnegie Steel company made
no attempt to get mon into the 1njll.
The advisory committee would allow no
one to go in it, except clerks, watchmen
and foremen in the employ of the com
pany,
On the morning Of July the Pinker-
ton detectives tried to land at the mill,
and ten men lost their lives as a result
OF the battle which followed besides
forty or fifty were wounded, some of
whom were manned for life. The arrest
of the Pinkertons after twelve hours
fighting, during which pistols, rifles,
cannon, dynamite and burning oil were
used, was followed by the terrible
Notwithstanding and barbarous abuse
of the captive Pinltertons, one of whom
was driven insane by it and afterward
killed himself A couple of others lost
their reason after passing through the
awful line of mad men ana women
from the river bank to the opera house,
where they We're held prisoners until
given into the charge OF the county
sheriff.
The next event Of Importance was the
ordering out by the COyaTuOr of the en-
tire national guard OF the state on July
10, two-thirds of which were encGmped
at Homestead for three weeks and some
regiments for three months with an ag-
gregate cost to the state Of $500 600.
Politicians brought the strike into
congress, and committee from the
house of representatives was sent to in
vestigate. They took evidence and
made reports which amounted to prac-
tically nothing. The senate committee
ia still investigating, Democrats seized
upon the situation as argument against
protective tariff and used it effectively
In the campaign. The civil courts from
the highest to the lowest took hand
and the grand jury returned pearly fifty
indictments for riot, conspiracy, treason
and murder against persons ON both
sides, and year or two viii be required
to clear the criminal court docket ON
these charges.
The trial and conviction Of the An
archist Bergman, who attempted to Kill
Chairman Prick of the Carnegie com
pany, and the trial of the officers of the
Tenth regiment for punishment of Pri-
waite lams that grew out OF the diff
GUILTY has already been settled. These
suits have cost Allegheny county u large
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