New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-07-20
THE ST EEL SCRAP.
Strikers Claim That Carnegie
Cannot Run His Mills With
Out Them.
Closely Guarded Figures as to
the Cost OF Production
Leak Out.

HOMESTEAD. Pa, July 1s.-All is quiet on
the Monongahela tonight, though stories
about men having been placed in the mill.
rumors about the desperate purposes of the
strikers and reports about the preparations
OF the military to quit the scene are extant.
Upto o'clock this evening no new men
had beeu introduced through tie Carnegie
| gates The new men are confidently ex
| pected be ore the formal opening of the
works on Thursday. but the strike leaders
do not believe that any of them will be in
troduced until after it is seen how many
| applications for work have been made by
the old men. That some of these
| will De made is quite certain. A few Of the
old employees have interviewed the mill
| tary about the protection which will be
| afforded to men going to work, and the
Carnegie company sees in this symptom
OF disintegration among the locked. out
! men which it halls with genuine relief.
Ofcourse their visits to headquarters have
been made secretly, as the great majority
| Of the nen are still strongly with the ANAL
ganated association.
| FLAT REFUSAL.
| a mass meeting was held at the rink to-.
| day at winch about 400 Of the employees
| were present, who represented the mechan-
| zeal department and the day laborers.
These men are not mem bers OF the ANAL
| gamated association. but have been in sy M
| pathy with it. Some half dozen speeches
were made as to the poster put up by Mr..
Frick inviting the old men back to work.
and the following resolutions passed unan-
| imously.
THAT We are in sympathy with the
Analgamated association and pledge our
| selves to stand with them to the end; that
| we consider it all injustice to the mechani-
cal 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 Tree, all men should be tree"
This means that the repair work, which
| was to have been begun tomorrow will not
be undertaken by the old men, who will
not go back to work, and that new men
will have to be brought inf the company
proposes to reopen the works on Thursday
next, as all the furnaces are cold, and much
rebuilding will have to be done.
It's 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 ex-
| pected from West Virginia and Alabama
furnaces A draft of eighty men is said to
be coming from Ohio. The advisory COM
mittee has heard OF efforts to enroll me-
chanics in Chicago and ST. Louis supposed
to be for the Carnegie company, but alter
all the rumors are sifted down there is no
truth to be found at the bottom of them.
Some OF the pilgrims are expected tonight,
but the chances seem to be hat they will
not come. At any rate the advisory COM
moi
evening.
/ TALK OF BoYCoTTING.
II is claimed by the leaders of the stiik-
ecs that the Amalgamated association holds
| the winning hand, no matter what may
happen. If the mills are started by non
union men they contend that the mistakes
that will occur, and the heavy financial
losses consequent to them will cause the
| company to shut down the mills IN sheer
self interest. The quality Of the product
turned out by the unskilled labor will be
so inferior, say the leaders, that it cannot
| ind market. II the product is ready for
| shipping it is claimed that greater diff
| Guilty will confront the company in the
refusal Of railroad men to handle any
material turned out from the Carnegie
| works. Assurances from so many unions
OF freight handlers have been received IN
| this connection that the Anal gamated asso-
| citation feels confident OF preventing the
/ product OF the Carne.1e MILLS made by
1 non-union men from being carried to the
| places stipulated in the contracts. Even if
| this fail the locked out workers claim they
have another trump caro- to play. This is
the action or unions of carpenters and Of
| many organizations composed Of men en-
| gagged in rhe construction, of buildings and
other structures III re using to perform
work on any erection Oh which products
! from the Carnegie mills are used. With
| these and ether circumstances TO support
l. IOc ont n O.
| stead with
| STRONG FINANCIAL BACKING
/ hope to bring the Carnegie company to the
terms dictated by the amalsamated associa-
| ton. Both sides admit that there is no
/ immediate prospect OF a settlement o! the
strike, and already the cost is considerably
| more than 81. 100000 One OF the leaders
| of the locked-out men said to-day that as
surunces have been received rom unions
/ whose members handle the product OF the
! Homestead mill that they stand readyto
/ declare a general boycott against Carnegie
| materials. These included the freight
/ handlers union. which will refuse TO ship
| iron and steel to and from the mill; struct-
| tural ship builders and Others, who Will
/ quit work ratherthan use the product of
/ l.on-union men. All this tends to show
| that IN case that the Carnegie company
overconles the present obstacles III its path
and succeeds III starting and operating its
/ plant with no!i-unlon labor 1t will con-
front a greater ditiicu- ty;and lift continues
i'll its determination to employ non-union
labor, it will precipltate strike onslhe
/ principal railways and many oisthe great
manu- acturing industries ofthis country.
once More the rInkertons
Boston July 1S.-The central labor uni on
q. this city to-day ad opted the following:
That the Bottom Central Labor union,
/ representing yer II ty thousand citizens OF
this common wealth. call upon the COM
| nlittee Investigating the Homestead trouble
! to widen their re port by demanding an in
vestlgationof the Pinkertons' headquarters
i with a view to obtaining the true inward
! ness OF the Pinkerton service, With its alien
i alliance as ii danger to the public morals
and to the safety OF the republic
! Confession and Suicide.
COLUMBUS July lS.-T Tonight at 9 o'clock
j Frank RolIin. a prisoner in the peniten-
i tiary. sent up las May Tor burglary. was