The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-18
LABOR STANDS FIRM.
No Men Report for Work at
the Carnegie Steel
Works.
GUARDS ALL DOUBLED.
Foremen Stay Out Too-Fires Not
Lit-Soldiers Growing
Tired.

HOMESTEAD, Pa, July Is, 1S92.-The
day dawned upon Homestead cold, foggy
and uncomforr able, but not not SO un-
comfortable but that the pickets of the
locked-out steelworkers were at their
posts, watching for any movement within
the works, for Chairman Frick had an-
nounced that operations would be re-
sumed there.
Ordinarily the men begin work at six
and seven O'Clock, and the personal no.
tices received by 1000 Of the mechanics
from Supt. Potter requested that they
come to work on MONDAY morning at the
usual hour" But at six o'clock no
human fgure cut the fog around
the Carnegie works, and when the little
whistle on small workshop at the other
END OF the borough announced that seven
O'Clock had arrived, there had passed
through the big Eighth avenue gate to
The mills only dozen men, among whom
there was not a single striker nor single
'black sheep"
STANDING BY THEIR CoLoRs.
They were all foremen in the various
departments. and their going and COM
Ing excited no comment among the
Homestead men, scores of whom were on
picket duty along Eighth avenue. 1t was
50 at the other gates, and the watchmeu
smiled grimly as they noted how well the
men were standing by their colors.
UP to ten o'clock not solitary work
man. new or old hand, had applied Tor
work. The pickets, stationed whore they
might intercept any would be applicant
and argue the case with him had nothing
to do.
Superintendent Potter and Yardmaster
nr,Ir hoe =
the mill. and the men said that the only
foremen who reported for duty this
morning who were of any consequence
were Nick Braddock aud Al Williams,
both of the converting mill.
Most of the twenty or twenty-five men
who entered the mill this morning are
clerks at the terra-cotta Offices They have
been reporting at the Offices every morn
ing since the trouble began.
There was coil of smoke from just one
stack in the 600 acres of shops. 1t came
from a furnace in the press shop, and the
fire was built by Superintendent Potter
himself.
A workman says that the coil of smoke
is poor bluff, for the furnace is full of
cinders and it would take the bricklayers
two weeks to get it IN shape for use.
The men are very bitter towards Fore
men Braddock and Williams, but have
offered no insult to either of them.
Admission to the works or even to the
Office is denied to the newspaper men
and all information is refused by the men
at the gate.
THE MILLS CLOSELY GUARDED.
The military day did not begin till
eight O'Clock to-day as usual, but ut that
hour the guard was increased every
where in Homestead-not that there was
any apparent urgent call for 1t, for no
men came to apply for work at the office
of the big mills, and after the first couple
of hours of watching the Homestead men
relaxed their vigilance.
Throughout the town. far more
numerous than lampposts, arm
ward and forward. Around the Car
negie property and outlined in relief
against the glaring whiteness of the
high board fence the pickets were so
close as to be able to almost touch each
others hands.
The military are already growing anxi-
Gus about the length Of time they will be
required to remain at Homestead. No
definite information Is obteinable on the
subject, but on Saturday a contract was
signed to supply the provisional brigade
with water for three weeks, with the
privilege of renewing the contract at the
same rate for an indefinite period here
after.
With the few who know OF the signing
of the water contract there is a growing
belief that the encampment will extend
to an annoying period at least 1t was
said yesterday by en- officer that two
regiments would be lett at Homestead
for at least two months after the bulk of
the soldiers had been called home.