Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-30
| AGAIN TAKE CHARGE.
Homestead Citizens Assuming Con-
troll of the Municipality.
EVERYTHING VERY PEACEFUL.
Nom Union Workmen Persuaded to Return
to Indianapolis.
A LIVELY EPISODE AT DUQUEsNE

The people of Homestead. are beginning
| to pick up interest in the strike with the
withdrawal of a large body OF the troops.
It was noticeable last evening that larger
assen,blages of the locked-out men congre.
gated on avenues leading to the mill and
discussed the situation in louder tones than
in three weeks During the evening
several strangers were closely irterrogated
by bodies of the men, and it is plainly
| to be seen that once again the people
are beginning to assume control OF their
own town. With the militia so near, and
SO many deputy sheriffs lettering around
ready to report any undue exercise of
authority, it is improbable that the locked
out men will again attempt to SO thoroughly
control municipal matters as they, did, yet
any non-union men who get off trains and
announced their intention of going to work,
as several did unmolested earlier in the
week, would surely find their way OBJ
structed.
The Advisory Committee was in a very
complacent mood over the turning back of
35 non-union men who were coming to take
skilled jobs,
PerSuadod Inem TO Return.
The committee having been warned that
the above number of steel workers had left
Indianapolis, sent a delegation to Birming-
ham station, where the place seekers were
intercepted, and after long parley agreed
to return, and also to endeavor to dissuade
others from coming to Homestead who were
only waiting their report.
Tho counp,ittaa olo1ma that a1thou0h q
month has passed the lines of the Home
stead men are unbroken and they are start
ing another. month full of hope and fight.
This statement, however, was contradicted
at the works last night, where Superintend-
ent Potter said that AZ men who formerly
belonged to the Homestead lodge of the
Amalgamated Association were working in
the mill. Most of those men, according to
Mr. Potter, went to the works to learn for
themselves whether the reports of the num-
Der of strange men working in. the mill
were true. On being convinced they re-
moved their coats and have not since left
the mill.
Speculation concerning Hugh O'Donnell's s
whereabouts is again on tip-toe, and all sorts
of rumors agitate the locked-out men who
are not in the confidence of the Advisory
SOmInlLIee. MaSLeT w OThIuau DcupScy, VI
District Assembly No. 3, knights of Labor,
said last night that O'Donnell is not on a
vacation as reported, but in New York ar
ranging disagreeable surprise for the Car
negie Steel Company, Limited.
Another View of the Matter
On the other hand, member of the Ad-
visory Board said last night: ''The fact of
the matter is that no one in Homestead
knows where Hugh O'Donnell is or what
duty called him away. No, don't believe
that he is in New York. All this talk
about our sending him East to confer with
the Republican National Committee is pure
and unadulterated rot. If he is doing any,
thing of the sort, he is doing it on his
own responsibility and without our con-
sent. No individual, be he Hugh O'Don-
nell or any other man, can make any deal
With these politicians. O'Donnell has not
been given this authority, nor will he get it.
You may rest assured that the Advisory
Board will never indorse such deal, and
without its consent no deal can be consum-
mated. I give you my word of honor so far
as know not a member of the body knows
where O'Donnell is or what he is doing. I
must admit that it would be better for all of
us if we could only hear from O'Donnell.
He told the Board that he was worn out and
that he must have long vacation. He in
sisted on being given an indefinite length of
absence, and there was nothing to do but
grant his request"