The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-11
SOLDIERS FOR
HOMESqEAD.
Continued from Fyrsb Pa0sD
in 1877 the great railroad riots occurred,
to which mining disturbances were
addad
PITTSBURG ANXIOUS,
Speculation as 10 the Probability
of a Fight-5O00 Non
Union Men.

~P1TTsBURG, Pa, July II, 1s92.-The
Second Brigade of the State Division OF
National Guard, which includes the
Eighteenth and the Fourteenth Regi.
ments and Capt. Hunts battery OF Pitts
burg. and several separate companies In
western Pennsylvania will be in Home
stead some time today under command of
Gen. Wylie. The soldiers were ordered
to assemble at their respective armories
at $50 o'clock this morning, but at that
time General Wylie was not prepared &c
say at what hour he would move his men.
1t has just been learned, however, that
the Pittsburg contingent of soldiery will
not move till four O'clock this afternoon.
Apparently, they will moi be in readiness
before that hour. The men are Struggling
about the armories, some in uniform and
some in citizen dress, and the supplies for
the three days are not yet in.
5000 NON-UNION 4
II. G.. Friek. of the Carnegie Company,
has been reticent regarding the ultimate
plans of the company. but it has been
stated on reliable authority that Mr..
Frlck has engaged aud now holds in
readiness 5000 workInen who will come
to Homes tead just as soon as they receive
orders TO do so.
AS has been stated before, Homestead
consists simply aud solely of the Carnegie
works and the $500 men who have been
employed there, with their families,
and a few. o very few, trad esmen,
professional men and others. such as
might be found In any small com-
munitY. The bouses on the hillsides are
the homes of the milimen. They are not
al cf them entirely paid for. The mep,
shut out of wage earning employ by
the action OF the employers, have ruin
staring them in the face.
RUIN BEFORE THEM.
All during the morning Pittshurg gave
itself over to the discussion of the sttua-
ton. Opinion was divided as to whether
there would be fighting at Homestead,
hut all agreed tia either the militia
would a to establish a permanent gar
rison at the Carnegie works or else the
non-union men who are to take the places
of the old hands would fare i'll indeed at
the hands of the locksd-out men just as
soon as the strong arm of the military
protection was relaxed.
It is difficult 10 believe that they will
stand idly by and see their roof trees
ru ned, their families in want and all the
savings of years of hard work lost and
destroyed while they can strike a blow.
Though they will probably be governed
by common prudence and will not fight
the military power of the State. it may be
SAlely pIG1lCGeu LnaG Inc uay GnAt sees Cne
retreat of the militia from Homestead
will mark the beginning Of an ansi-non-
union wal there.
1t is reported that II. G. Prick, the
manager of the Carnegie w orks. informs
the Burgess of homestead that be does
not intend to send any more Pinkerton
specials" there to protect the mills.
This was in reply to q message
which he received from Mayor
Gourley by Chief Brown, of
the Department. of Public Safety, telling
him that If he brought any more Pinker-
ton m en- to Homestead the would be i'm
mediately arrested, held Tor trial aud
their weapons seized,