Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-07-21
START AT HOMESTEAD.
The Company Has About Ono Hum
dred and Fifty Men.
Peculiar Methods Of the Management to
Force Men TO Work Proposed Reduce
tlon of the Military Negroes Arr
rive In squads.

|
rive In squads.
| PITTsDURGH, PA, July 30 An Asso
ciated press representative made toul
of the Homestead steel mills, being tn,
only newspaper man who has succeeded
in gaining admission behind the now
famous fence which surrounds the com
pany's property.
lie found about $50 men at work. most
OF them new employee
-Four furnaces in the armor plate dc
| partment were charged yesterday and
n complete resumption in this depart
ment will take place to-day The melt
ing department has been fired up but
1t will take seven days 10 get this brauch
of the mill running again.
| The open hearth departments Nos. l
and 2, the mechanical department and
the armor plate departments were all
being worked, but in a dcsultory way.
| The assistant superintendent said
| that a number of men had applied for
employment yesterday and that he eX-
| pectcd quite number of such applica-
tions to-day. This official stated that
tho company had up to this time been
unable 10 secure enough mechanics TO
| complete the necessary repairs SO they
started the works without them. He is
| confident that for the mill to resume
operations successfully for a day or
two many Of the former employees would
return to their old positions
A large number of colorcd men ar
rived in Pittsburgh yesterday and visit
cd Mr. Frick in squads They carried
satchcls and were evidently strangers
in the city Their ultimate destination
is supposed TO he Homestead, but up 10
last night they had not been seen there
II is quite proba bic that the force of
the national guard on duty at Home
stead will be reduced within a week
Should there be no further breach of
the peace the Third brigade will likely
be ordered home by the end of this
week. This brigade comes from the
central portion of the state and The
Second brigade which is made up of
regiments in Allegheny and adjoining
counties, will be kept al Homestead for
some time, until the authorities feel as
sured that its withdrawal would bo
followed by no law breaking
The meeting Of the advisory commit
tee at Homestead yesterday resulted IN
charges being given out that the Car
ncgie managers are resorting 10 pc
culiar methods TO force men to work
The cases of james Close and another
man were cited, in which il is alleged
nj
plicate relatives in tho pending
legal proceedings. Clark Richard
& Co. Of Pittsburgh, were re-
ported as advertising for cnrpen-
ters, and when applicants for
work appeared asking them 10 go To
homestead 70 buiid bunlSs and sheds
for non-unionists iu the mills Another
matter which reached the advisory
committee was the report Of the dis
charge last night Of three worllmcn at
the mills because of suspicion that the
trio were keeping the strikers posted
on the condition Of affairs inside The
contributions received to-day for the
benefit of the laborcrs made idly by the
strike. but who are not members OF the
Amalgamated association, amounted to
Sl06
The organization Of the worlsmcn en-
ployed at the Duqucsne steel works Of
the Carnegie Steel Co. into the Anal
gamated association lodges has not yet
been completed. but the officers Of the
association are hopeful that it soon
will be Vice President Carney, OF the
Amalgamated association, in an inter
view said:
1--WE have made proposition TO the
men az the Duquesne steel works en-
couraging organization. This same
course was taken at Braddocl. We in
formed them that we are ready 20 or
ganize them free of all charges and
promise them the entire support Of the
Amalgamated association and the
American Federation of Labor, which
two organizations number over ] 200, 00O
men We are to give them a free card
for one year, placing them on par with
the Homestead and all other organiza-
tions employed by the Carnegie firm A
step Of this character would never have
been taken had it not been for the hos
tile disposition Of the head of the Car
negie firm in refusing 20 allow the scale
TO expire on tbs same date as he signed
and agreed that il should expire in the
Twenty-ninth and Thirty-third and
Beaver Falls mills. Had Mr. Friclx ac-
ccptcd the proposition Of the Home
stead men TO have the scale expire the
last Of June instead of the last Of De-
cember. nothing further would have
been asked by the men. They would
have gone TO work at a bTg reduction in
wages