The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-08-05
mill all the afternoon.
FUN DURING THE SIEGE.

tendance of the day The Sunday
concerts and sermons will be continued
Hereafter band or orchestra will be
brought from Pittsburg on Saturday
nights and it will remain within the
mill till Monday morning.
There will be series of other en-.
tertalnments. The first will be min
strel show. The company officials
have made up their minds that they
Will have to keep the men inside the
mills for long time. They have al
ready begun to build temporary houses
within the fence, to be occupied by a
few OF the men who will not remain
unless they can have their families
with them and who do not care to live
at Homestead There are others who
say they will 90 to live in the company
houses on the hill as soon as the com
pany is ready to have them.
NEARLY A THOUSAND MEN IN THE MILL.
A few more men were received
yesterday. There were 200 expected
last night, but only IL arrived. There
are now between 900 and 1000 men
in the mill. Superintendent Potter
says that by the end o.; this week
every one of the mills will be running.
The superintendent told a World
reporter to-day that there would be
one important change made in the
running of the mill, Hereafter there
will be no eight-hour turns. They
will be done away with altogether.
Heretofore all the mechanics and a
few Of the steelworkers of lower
grades have worked twelve hours 4
day, but the really skilled workmen
have worked but eight hours a day,
that is, there were three turns or
shifts OF eight hours each. Sup
erintendent Potter proposes to make.
the men work at least ten hours a
day, and the number who work
twelve will be increased. All the
best steel workers will work ten hours
a day and there will be but two turns
in the twenty-four, instead of three
dS has Deen tns custom.
PILING ON THE HOURS AGAIN.
Had this been propose 4 to the old
men it would have caused no end of
touble. They say that man cannot
stand it to work ten hours a day in
some of the departments, and that
during summer man cannot work
more than six hours of the eight.
This doing away with the eight-hours
working days is likely to make
stir throughout the country.
The labor men will use it as an
argument that the Carnegie company
forced the strike not to gain the points
which it has SAID 1t wanted, but to
gain others which it has kept in the
background, and this is one of them.
The result of the ten-hour rule will
of course increase the wages of the
men-or it would under ordinary cir
cumstances but the old steel work
ers say that little more can be ac-
complished in ten hours than in
eight, for the reason that the men be.
come so exhausted that they cannot
work.
The locked-ou men do not seem
to worry at all. 1t is evident that
break among the mechanics would
not surprise them, although they in
sist that it is not so and that such a
break would not affect them in the
least. The association men seem to
grow more quiet every day, but not a
whit less confident. One of the
most earnest, and at the same time
the most conservative of the as
sociation men said today.
HOW THE ASSOCIATION MEN FEEL.
81 cannot see that there is much
change in the situation. This very
likely true that they have many men
in the mill, probably as many as they
claim, but what difference does that
make? They can fill the mill up to
the roof and it will not effect us IN
the least. They say they have 600 men
and that they are good men.
Americans, and intelligent. Very
likely they have, but how many of
them do you suppose are steel work
ers! We have kept tab on them
petty close We have watched the
men work, for we can see exactly
what they are doing with glasses, and
if they do not get in better men than
thev have at present we are satisfied
if they fill the place up with them.
To be sure they have some really
skilled steel workers among them,
but this number is SO few that they
do not cut any figure.
NO PROFIT AND NO GOOD WORK.
81 do not doubt that the company
can get men who will run the mill,
but to run it at profit and turn out