The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-05
Refusing to Work With Iron
From the Carnegie Mills.
MILITIA SENT TO DuQUEsNE.
Strikers From Homestead We're At
tacking -Unionists.
Non-Union Man Testifies Aeainst the
Idaho Rioters, Describing the
Destruction of the Frisco Mill and
the Outrages on Fugitives at Mission.

HOMESTEAD. Aug. AT late hour to-
night the following was received from
South Bend, Ind, by the strikers:
TO the President Of the Union, Hom-tead Pa: i:
The Studebaker Wagon works the largest in the
world. was obliged TO shut down today. owing
10 S,ooo men refusing to work account of the
companys using material purchased of the Car
heg'e steel Company. Great excitement pre-
Vaiis here. Other unions contemplate going
out unless boycott is made on all material
made by the Carnegie company.
HOMESTEAD. Aug. 4-The moral suasion
OF clubs and stones was adopted bv few
desperate strikers at Duquesne today.
Yesterday it became evident that a break
was imminent. large number of strikers
having gone back to work. Foreman
Mlieslage, OF the mechanical department,
was ordered to report with thirty-six men
this morning. A number of strikers de-
termined to stop them, and twenty men
went from Homestead to assist. By Z
O'Clock this morAing $50 men had gathered
about the gate, and as fast as employees
arrived they were ordered home Fore
man MIleslage made some resistance and
was stoned and beaten. The dep
uty sheriffs were hemmed by the
crowd and unable to help him Hugh
Boyce. boss carpenter. managed to run the
gauntlet and get in safely, though sharply
chased. Another man also managed to
get inside. and then the strikers proposed
to storm the works. A telegram was hast
lily dispatched to Brigadier-General Wiley
and the Sixteenth regiment was sent on a
special train. AS soon as the soldiers
marched up the street the strikers fell
back and futher violence was averted.
None OF the repair men would go to work
this afternoon, however, being too badly
frightened. Treasurer Curry, of the Car
negie company, says majority of the men
at Duquesne wish to 60 back to work.
There was nothing new at Homestead to-
dav.
One of the committee whicA went to
Duquesne to investigate the trouble there
returned this morning. To an Associated
Press reporter he said there was no use in
Disgusting the fact that the men were all
ready to go back to work. In fact, those
who received the smallest wages are scram-
bling to get the fifty or sixty places vacant.
The mill will not start till Monday, but
600 applications have already been made.
The arguments of the committee were
without effect.
The operation of the mills here is not
affected by the arrests caused by the
strikers. Edward Burk, a locked-out man,
was arrested at noon on the charge of in
citing riot, and taken to Pittsburg.
PIrTsBURG, Aug. Authorization has
been lodged before Alderman Riley against
fifteen participants in the riot at Duquesne
today. The arrests will be made to-
morrow.
Superintendent Potter, Nevin McCon-
nell and James Dovey. of the Carnegie
company were released on $4,000 bail
this morning.
Captain Helm, the noted Pinkerton
leader. who was shot in the Homestead
riots, is still'in the hospital in a critical
condition, and it is feared he will die.
Fred Primer, Pinkerton detective, sur
rendered tonight and was committed to
Jail. He will have a trial tomorrow.