The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-17
HOMESTEAD HORROR
Has Completely and Practically
Faded Away.
MILLS WILL START ON MONDAY.
An Invitation to Nearly ALI the Old Employees
to Resume work-Steel Plate Armor
Was First Made at Carnegies.


HOMESTEAD, July 16-Today was the
quietest that Homestead has known since
the declaration of hostilities between the
Company and men. Undoubtedly new men
have been introduced into the works, but
the number is small and the strikers are
confident that many cannot without great
difficulty be brought in. If the men come
they will undoubtedly have the liyeliest
time they ever had.
Although smoke Is rising from two
smokestacks in the mills, q visit to the
yards showed about twenty non-union
men at work, and not fifty as originally
stated.
Burgess McLnckie tells a curious story
about the manner the first armOr plates
were made. "When the work first came to
the Mills a lot of experts both from the
government and the Carnegie company
turned up to show US how nickel steel
should be made. The result was that fully
800, 900 worth of material was wasted. We
tried and tried under expert direction to
produce uickle steel armor plate, but could
not do so. At last some boys got together,
looked over the situation, considered the
difficulties and finally asked the Carnegie
company to WITHDRAW the experts and let
the men see what they could 10 by them
selves. 1t was done as we asked. Every
one OF the office force was sent away from
the furnaces, and the Basic Lodge of the
amalgamated association turned out
the first complete nickle steel armor
plates that would stand inspection.
The result was the Carnegie company
got reputation which reslly
belongs to Basic Lodge. We made those
plates under tremendous difficulties, and
after the government officials and mill
owners were ic despair"
Letters were put in the office today to
every old employee of the mills, with about
forty exceptions, reading as follows:
DEAR SIR-Repairs will be resumed Monday
morning, July lS We invite you to return
to your old position: Work to commence
at the usual time. Respectfully,
j. w. POTTER, Gen'l. Supt.
Besides The letters, posters are put up all
over town, stating that an individual ap-
plications for employment will be received
by the general superintendent until p.
M, July II. The poster says it is the de-
sire Of the company 20 retain in its SER
vice all old employees whose past record is
satisfactory and who did not participate in
the efforts made to interfere With the COM
pany's right to manage it's own business.
Old employees not applying by the time
mentioned the company will consider they
have no desire to reenter its employ again
and their positions will be given to others
absolutely.
NO EXCITEMENT FOLLOWED
the putting up of the notices, and members
of the advisory committee said that nei-
Their they nor the letters would have any
effect on the strikers. The men win go
back readily as soon es it is settled as to
the wages TO be paid, but until then they
will not go back. No violence is threat
ened.
.rhe Carnegie mills might restore all the
men in the world outside of our ranks and
they could not make the nickel steel armor
plates that the United States inspectors
would pass. Our people know how to
make it and nobody else does.''
Shannon, who made the above state
ment. is one of the most conservative of
the strike leaders. He said further that
the men had sufficient funds to continue
the strike five years.