St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-09
Locked-0ut Workmen Still
Rulers Of the Situation
at Homestead.
Sheriff MeCleary All at Sea,
but Some Move Must Be
Made Quick.
The Spirit Evinced Seems to
Presage Trouble Of a
Lurid Hue.
Neither Side Is Willing to
Consider Arbitration
at Present.

HOMESTEAD, Pa. July s.-The situa-
ton In Homestead has moved one day
more-one step nearer the next point.
Beyond this there is absolutely no
change. In the words of one of the
press committee of the labor men:
There is nothing tonight indicating
what the next step will be. All there
is to do is to watch and wait"
What the next move will be no one
here can tell. 1t may be that the troops
will be ordered here, but no one can
say that such will be the case. The
sheriff has taken one more step and
made one more effort to obtain admis-
sion for deputy sheriffs to the works.
and one more effort, this time III the
town Of Homestead itself. to obtain
posse. He has failed in these effoIts,
as he has failed in all his other efforts,
and now the question arises: ''What
will he done neXt?'
This is the question that all persons
are unable to answer. The legal adj
wiser of the sheriff says that tue firm is
not in law or In fact In possession of its
works and that it must be put III posses
sion of them.
To the locked out workmen all IN
tensely suspicious proposition has been
submitted--t they permit deputy
sheriffs to peacefully enter the works
and assume charge. The men have held
meeting at which the proposition was
considered. 1t adjourned without reach
ing conclusion, though, so far as there
was all expression of opinion, it was
generally in favor of the acceptance
the proposition, and of submission to
the law OF the land, and recognition of
the regular constituted authority.
The men are intensely suspicious, and
are afraid that the proposition of the
sheriff has behind it some sinister move
ment-that the introduction of deputies
is but cloak for more important action.
They fear that Pinkertons will follow
the deputies and that nOn-uniOn men
Will follow the PinkertonS. Both these
latter ones they Will resist with all their
force. The cooler men are advising the
strikers to permit the deputies to come
in peaceably and take possession of the
works. but if it be granted, the strikers
insist as a condition precedent that the
deputies shall be neither numerous nor
we'll armed. and that they shall not
make move to protect men whom the
firm may wish to introduce.
Distrust McCIeary.
1t will be seen that the movement is
really but continuation of the strikers
of the forcible preventing of coptinu-
ance of mill work, with possibly some
ground of legal contention in the suit
which is almost certain to follow, that
the county turned the works over to the
firm of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., and is not
liable for damages. The unwillingness
of the men to turn the works over to the
sheriff and his deputies has been in
creased by their distrust, openly ex-
pressed, of Sheriff McClearv. His
course does not seem to have the ap-
proval of the firm, and the workmen
openly accuse him of being in with the
company and of acting a double part;
but the specter of the. appearance of
long line of soldiers, with no purpose
but to sternly obey any orders they
may receive, is behind the sheriff's fail
ure, and some of the men realize this.