Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-23
as deputies of the Sheriff of Allegheny
county. That's all there is to it,
A SACRED PROMISE.

The Advisory Committee OF Homestead
Prepare . Statement in Which They
Pledge tho Locked-Out Workmsn VIII
Refrain From Violence.
Recognition of the law and other peace
full means as the only elements that should
have part in the settlement of the present
labor difficulty is the subject of new state
ment prepared by the AdvisorysCo Committee
at Homestead. The committeeman pledge
themselves and the locked-out workers to
retain from lawlessuess and violence. The
statement follows:
The most evident characteristic Of. our
time and country Is the phenomenon OF in
dustrial Capitalization, which is putting the
control OF each of our great national indus
giving these men an enormous and despotic
power over the lives and the fortunes Of
their employees and subordfnates-the great
mass OF the people; power which eviscer-
ates our national Constitution and our COM
mon low and directly antagonizes the spirit
OF universal history IN this worldwide
struggle after lawful liberty-a power which.
Though expressed in terms Of current speech
business TO suit themselves,' is causing to
mean In effect nothing less than right to
manage the country to suit themselves.
Have Built Up n Town.
The employees in the mill OF Messrs. Car
negie, Phtpps & Co, at Homestead, Pa,
have built there a town with its homes, its
schools and its churches; have for many
years been faithful co-workers with the
company in the business Of the mill; have
invested thousands Of dollars Of their say.
ings in said mill in the expectation of spend
ing their lives in Homestead and Of working
in the mill during the period OF their ell
ciency. In addition to the ordinary gifts
and advantages of our Governments the Ma
tional Legislature has seen fit to specially
foster and protect by public taxation the in
dustry Of their mills, and the State of Penn
sylvania is to-day guarding 1t at great and
Therefore, the committee desires to e1-
press to the public as its firm belief that
both the public and the employees aforesaid
have equitable rights and Interests in the
verted without due p process Of law; that the
employees have the right to continuous en-
ploymcnt in the saids mill during eff
cheney and good behavior without regard to
religious. political or economic opinions and
associations; that it is against public policy
and subversive of the fundamental princi-
pies of American liberty that whole COM
munity of workers should be denied en-
ploym or suffer any other social detri-
ment on account of membership in a church,
political party or a trades union; that 1t Is
our duty as American citizens to resist by
every legal and ordinary means the un-
constitutional, anarchic and revolutionary
policy of the Carnegie Company. which
seems to evince a contempt Of public and
private interests and disdain Of the public
conscience by refusal to
Submit to Lawful Arbitration,
and by the lawless Importation of a band of
armed mercenaries to forcibly deprive the
employees of their equitable rights in ad-
vance OF any legal adjudication thereupon,
and without previous appeal to the lawful
forces Of Allegheny county and the State Of
The committee wish 1t known that we will
prosecute the said public and private inter-
ests in the courts Of law and equity, and
that we demand of Congress and the State
Legislature distinct assertion Of the princi-
pie that the public has an interest In such
concerns as that at Homestead and that the
State has duty to judge the affairs Of such
concerns when occasion may require. Final
ly we desire to state emphatically that as
of and petitioners for law and or
der we pledge ourselves to refrain from vio-
lenoe and lawlessness, and that we rest our
cause, which is the peoples cause.-the caRse
of American liberty-against anarchy on
the one hand and despotism on the other,
with the courts, the Legislature and the
public conscience.