Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-18
IT WAS A DAY Or REST.
Everything Quiet at Homestead,
Yesterday.
MASS MEETING OF WORKMEN
Not Identified With the Amalgamated Association
Contradictory Rumors AAoat - Dress
Parade by the TroopS-Sharp
Talk by Chicago Unions

purposes OF the strikers, and reports
about the preparations of the military
to quiet refractories, are extant, but
the fact remains that it has been most
quiet Sunday. Up TO six o'clock this
evening no new men had been intro
duced through the Carnegie gates, and
although everything has been expected
for tonight nothing has been done for
to-day.
The new men are confidently expect
ed before the formal opening OF the
works on Thursday, but the strike
leaders don't believe that any Of them
will be introduced until after 1t is seen
how many applications for work lave
| been made by the old men. That some
OF these will be made, is quite certain.
Some of the old employees have already
interview wed the military about the pro-
lection which will be afforded to men
| going TO work, and while the number OF
those asking the question has been
small, the Carnegie Company sees in it
a symptom OF dfsntegration among the
locked-out men, which they hail with
genuine relief. OF course these visits
to Headquarters have been made secret
ly, as the great majority OF the men are
still strongly with the Amalgamated
! Association.
A mass meeting was held this morn
ing, at which about four hundred OF the
employees were present, who represent
| the mechanical department and the day
| laborers. These men are not members
of the Amalgsmsted Association, but
they have been in sympathy with it.
Some half a dozen speeches were
made as TO the poster put up by Mr..
Frick, inviting the old men back to
work, and after some consideration the
following resolutions were proposed and
| passed unanimously.
THE MEN ARE FIRM.
WHEREAS, We, the employees Of
the mechanical departments and day
laborers Of the Carnegie Steel Works of
Homestead, In meeting assembled, do
offer the following as our views, In re-
gard TO the labor troubles existing at
present;
ResoLped, That we are in sympathy
| with the Amalgamated Association and
pledge ourselves 10 stand with them to
the end.
Rcsolued, That we consider it an in
| Justice 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 to-mor-
| row, will not be undertaken by the old
men, who will not go back to work,
and that the new men will have to be
/ brought in if the Company proposes TO
reopen the works on Thursday next, as
all the furnaces are cold and much re-
| building will have to be done.
1t is simply matter OF impossibility
| to untangle all
THE CONTRADICTORY STORIES
which are being told about all these
new men. For instance, a number OF
negroes are expected from the West
Virginia and Alabama furnaces. a
draft Of eighty men is said to be COM
| ing from Ohio The advisory commit
tee has heard of efforts to
enroll mechanics in Chicago and
! st. Louis, supposed to be for the Car
negie Company, but after all rumOrs are
| sif.ed down there is no truth TO be
! found at the bottom OF them, and those
| correspondents who are trying 10 send
! out the real state Of the case in Home
\ stead are forced TO depend only upon
what they see with their own eyes. A
case in point Is furnished by the
rumor started this morning that three
| boat loads of non-union men had been
/ disembarked into the works. One gen
/ tlemSn saw these men going into the
mills, aud so reported, and yet the men
are not there, and did not go in as
stated Some OF the pilgrims are ex-
pected tonight, but the chances seem
/ 70 be that
THEY WILL NOT COME.
At any rate the Advisory Committee is
not particularly vigilant this evening.
| The patrols are OF course continued,
but Mr.. Shanpon fatty stated that he
knew that no men would be brought in
until Thursday. He said:
1--WE are not talking wildly when we
/ say that we believe that we know ex-
actly what is to be the programme Of
the Carnegie Company. Their whole
/ effort is TO be directed towards bringing
/ back the old men, not 10 getting new
ones; and they will exhaust all their
methods of persuasion before they go
| of for the black sheep. We know this,
/ and we know that TO win this fight all
we have to do Is 10 keep our lines firm and
I let the Company do what it will. They
cannot make nickle steel armor plates
| without US. They cannot, except at
I greatly increased expense, do any OF
the ordinary work of the mills. This is
NOT AN IDLE BOAST on OUR PART.
! We have in the Amalgamation Associa-
| tion the skilled steel workers of Amer
! lea. II they can import labor they will
! have to be exceedingly smooth 1
don't mind saying that the Advisory
| Committee believes that its patrols
| should be at the seaboard instead OF at
Homestead. OF the locked out men now
here, about six will go to work. The
others will come to us and we will take
all the proper care Of them. 1t will be
a waiting fight, but as / told you yes
terday, believe in all sincerity, we can
stand 1t for Eve years. We are not pau
pers, nor drunkards, nor trAmps, but
( American citizens and taxpayers. We
can pay our debts and have little
surplus left The rainy day has
come, but our umbrellas are all up.
think the Amalsgamated Association