The record-union., 1892-07-22
HOMESTEAD TROUBLE.

Governor PattiSOn in Conference With
Representatives of the Strikers.
HoMEsTEAD, July 2l.-A secret confer
ence of over an hours duration was held
tonight between Governor Pattison,
President Weihe of the AmaIgamated
Association. and w. j. Brennan, legal
adviser of the strikers. At its conclusion
neither of them would say a word as to
the nature of the discussion. It is said,
however, that the removal of the troops
from Homestead and the bearings of that
matter from each possible standpoint
was gone into. Weihe and Brennan de-
MED that threats OF any kind were made.
and are reported TO have stated privately
to friends that if the conference proved as
satisfactory as they hoped. the whole
trouble would soon be at an end. The
best information Obtainable as to the
Governors view, however, is that no
such roseate view is justified, and that
the troops will not be moved until work
men can enter and leave the mills at will,
unarmed and unframed.
FRICTION BETWEEN CITIZENS AND SOL
DIERS.
There has been riot and friction between
the people and soldiers to-day Early in
the day one OF the cOlOIed cooks Of the
Eighteenth Regiment, getting little too
much beer into his system, became tired
of camp life and concluded to go home.
He was captured by the patrol near the
depot and lively scene eusUed. \ large
crowd gathered, and Company G. Of the
Eighteenth was ordered to diSperSe the
crowd of people. This was done, to put
it mildly, in a very brisk manner. The
strike leaders were promptly on hand
and had hard time to prevent some Of
the men, who had been drinking, from
attracking the soldiers. The strikers
went to their headquarters, and some
still feeling sore about the matter, are
said to have spit upon the soldiers
stationed in front of the building. This
is asserted by the military and denied by
the strikers. At any rate, one of the SOL
dierS appeared in the Advisory Commit
tee rooms and delivered himself of this
remarkable communications:
Gentlemen, Colonel Green presents his
compliments, and says II any more spit
is spat out of the windows onto anybody,
the whole building will be shut up.''
The soldier saluted and withdrew, and
then ensued a complicated discussion on
the question of eXpectoration. 1t was
finally ended by the posting of notice
calling upon the men to eXpectorate on
the floor and not on the street.
Some Hungarian workmen later came
in and asserted that when on their way to
a picnic they were rudely dispersed and
SbIG DdCk ny GlC ItlIlIJldtlpD. PROVOST
Marshal Green claims to have heard moth
ing of this.
All sorts of rumors are still rife about
ODonnelPS trip to New York, the latest
being that he had a conference with ex-
President Cleveland and the Democratic
National Committee.
NO CHANGE.
PITTsBURG, July 2l.-There is no
change in the situation at the Carnegie
Union Mills. At Beaver Falls the mills
are still shut down. AT Homestead there
is no change. The men will be given till
P. NJ. to-day to return to work.
LEADING STRIKERS UNDER ARREST.
PITTsBURG, July 2l.-Hugh O'Donnell.
the leader Of the Homestead mill men,
and six others, against whom warrants
were out, came here this morning, sur
rendered and were locked up. An appli-
cation will be made for bail.
HOADLY NOT SECURED.
CINCINNATI, July 2l.-Mr. Johnson.
partner of Ex-Governor Hoadly, writes
to a local paper that Hoadly has been in
Europe since April 1st, and no one has
applied to the firm for his or the firms
services as counsel for the Homestead
strikers.
PROSPECTIVE BOYCOTT.
HARRISBURG pa, July 21.-Delegates
to the National Switchmens Convention
at PittsbuTg, say resolution will be
adopted calling on all switchmen to re-
fuse to handle cars carrying material to
or from the Carnegie works until the
company comes to terms with the men.
They say the National Carpenters Union
will ask the members not to use the
Carnegie nails.
THE STRIKE SPREADING.
PITTsBURG, July 21.-The sympathetic
strike movement among work men in tho
employ of the Carnegie Company is as
suming alarming proportions. The
latest branch of labor to take active part
in the movement is the coke workers of
the Frick Company and miners in the
works operated by the same comDanv