Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-18
SATURDAY At HOMESTEAD.


PIrrsnrRo, Pa, July l6.-More non
union men to the number of 3o or 40 were
put to work in the Carnegie mills today
without the knowledge of the strikers, an,!
hence without protest of any sort from
them.
This makes from 80 TO 20 men who are
now at work, and Manager Frick declares
that he will have the mills running by the
middle of next week. and that the backbone
Of the strike will be broken.
The strikers did not learn until this morn
ing that non-union men were actually AT
work inside the fence, and when they did
they had little TO say about it.
In view of all the circumstances they are
strangely confident. They assert today
with more vehemence than at any time
since they stopped work that they will win
There have been at times signs of their
weakening, but these signs have disap-
peared in measure, and now they talk
and seem to mean what they say about hav-
ing absolutely no fear of the outcome.
The reason for their confidence is not
apparent. To the men here who have fol-
lowed the trouble since the beginning it
certainly looks now as if the strikers were
already beaten.
The Carnegie company intends to begin
repairing its mills on Monday next, prepar-
atory to starting anew on the work left
unfinished by the lockout. This morning
every man in the mechanical department
of the mills received the following notice ;
CAgNKGIr STEEL CoMrAN,, Limited.
HOMESTEAD, Penn. July Ii.
Dear Sir; Repairs will be resumed on
Monday morning, July Is. 1892. We write
YOU to return to your old position. work to
commence at the usual time.
Respectfully, j. A. POTTER.
General Superintendent
The thing that has perhaps caused the
most thinking on the part of the men is u
notice printed in pittsburg papers calling
for bids from builders. for the erection Of
100 houses, on the spot where the soldiers
are now encamped. The notice is signed
by the company, and calls for bids by noon
of the 23d. II is the evidence of the inten-
ton of the company TO house new men.
The new men who went in today went TO
Homestead BY train as did the men who
went to work Yesterday, and they went
direct to the mills and walked in plain view
of everyone who was there TO see. Their
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