The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-26
THE STRIKE oFE.
pno OF the Most Disatrous Labor Movs-
inents Games Co an End Ty tho Action
of the Amalgnmated Association.


inents Games TO Eud by the Action
of the Amalgamatod Association.
PITTsBURGu, Pa, Nov. 21.--The great
strike at Cnrnegie's Homestead steel
works has been declared off. After
five months struggle, which, for bitter
ness, has probably never been equaled
in this country, the army of strikers
knally decided Sunday to give up the
fight This action was taken at a meet
ing Of the lodges of the Amalgamnted
association at Homestead Sunday after
noon, the vote standing 10l in favor of
declaring the strike off and 81 against
it. Among those present at the meet
ing were Vice-President Carney, Secre-
tary Kigallon, 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 considera BILE
opposition, but when the vote was talk
en- it showed a majority of ten in favor
OF declaring the strike off. Those who
were in favor of calling the strike off
were jubilant, while those who were
against it were badly put out Most of
the latter were men who were obsti-
nate, and many of them were men who
had either applied for positions in the
mill and had been turned down or felt
sure that their names were on the COM
pany's blacklist and could not get posi-
lions.
A member of the advisory board said
Sunday that he had been trying to get
the strike declared off for two weeks,
as he knew it was lost, and IL would
have been better for the men, as great
many more of them could have got their
places back. Those who can not get
back are in bad fix, as the relief funds
will be stopped and many hundreds of
them have nothing to live on. The
people in Homestead, especially the
business men, are highly elated over
The declaration to call the strike off, for
if it had continued much longer it
would have ruined the town. Many
business houses have fallen into the
aands of the sheriff since the strike was
IN. Business is expected to resume its
normal condition soon.
The Homestead strike has proved one
If the most disastrous in the history of
the country. 1t originated from re-
iuction in wages in tho departments
where members of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel workers
we're employed. The hitch was on what
was known as the sliding scale 1t is IL
scale which regulates the mems wages
by the price of steel billets Nearly
svery mill in this vicinity signed the
icale, including other mills of the Car
aegie Co.
At the refusal of the firm to sign the
scale for the Homestead mill lockout
occurred of the Amalgamated associa-
ion, and they were joined by the me
.hanics and laborers, who struck out
II sympathies only, their wages not
being reduced. The strikers were de-
;ermined to keep non-union men out of
,he mill, and adopted military disci-
oline. The story of the arrival and
bloody fight with the Pinktertons on
July 6, the subsequent riotous proceed
ngs, and the calling out of the national
guard, and it's departure after three
months duty, is too well known to re-
peat.
For six months the mill has been run.
aing almost as well as before the strike,
out until within the last week the strik
.rs have steadfastly refused to admit
| iefeat.
The news of Sundays action was re.
,eived with dismay by the strikers in
The two Lawrenceville mills of Carne'
gle. These men were sympathetic
strikers, and went out at the time the
men at Beaver Falls and Duquesne
struck. The Duquesne men gave up the
! fight in three weeks and the Beaver
Falls strikers decided to go back Sun.
| day. The Lawrencevillc men, however
were steadfast and had no intention oi
giving in. They are now in the posi-
ton of striking for 10 cause. They arc
very angry at the Homestead men, anc
will probably declare the strike of
Monday.
The strike at one time involved near
ly 1O,000 men, and the loss in wage:
reach, it is said, in the neighborhood o
1000, 600. Then there is an immense
loss to the firm, which can not be esti
mated, but which conservative people
put at least double the amount lost 10y
the men in wages, TO this can be added
nearly half million dollars paid tc
the troops and the costs to the county
of Allegheny for the riot, treason anC
other cases growing out of the strike
AT least thirty-five deaths were directly
or indirectly caused by the strike.
Besides those killed in the battle o
July 9 many soldiers contracted feve
which resulted fatally one soldier wa
shot accidentally by comrade, anothe
was killed by the cars, one striker com
mitted suicide, one drowned, and one wa
killed by the cars, several non-uniol
men died from fever and several wer
killed in the mill, and one was mui
dered by another non-unionist.
The attempted assassination of Chain
man Frick, of the Carnegie Co., is ais
Indirectly credited to the strike
Georsia'S Official Vote.
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 2l.-The officia
vote of the state of Georgia in the ns
tional election was as follows: Tota