Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-22
ADVISORY COMMITTEE URGE PEACE.
Application Made for O'DonneIl's
Release on Bail.
TO REPLACE THE STRIKERS.
STRIKERS FAVOR PkACE.
Statement by the Ad dvisory Committee of Il
Homestead workfngmen.

III Pledges itself TO obey Law and pre-
serve order. 1t officially plsces itself on
record Oh q matter Of very great import
ance, because from the beginning Of the dis
turbances here the committee has been charged
with giving countenance TO many. IL not all,
the disturbances that have bestowed on Home
stead such q mslodorous NAME The state
ment was given exclusively to TIE STAB at IL
O'Clock last night and today will be distributed
by the press associations. The full text of the
statement is az follows:
The most evident characteristics Of our time
and country is the phenomenon Of industrial
centraiization, which is putting the control Of
each Of our great national industries into the
hands of one or a few men and giving these
men an enormous and despotic power over the
lives and the fortunes Of their employees and
subordinAtes- great.mass OF the people; q
power which eviscerates our nation, Constitu-
ton and our common law and directly antago-
nizes the spirit OF universal history in its
worldwide struggle after lawful liberty-a
power which, though expressed in terms Of
current speech as ''the right Of employers to
manage their business 10 suit themselves, {" is
causing to mean in effect nothing less than
right to manage the country to suit them
selves. The employees in the mill Of Messrs.
Carnegie, Phipps 4 Co. at Homestead, Pa.
have built there Q town, with its homes, its
schools and its churches; have for many years
been faithful coworkers with the company in
the business Of the mill; have invested thou
sands Of dollars Of their savings in the said
mill, in the expectation Of spending their lives
in Homestead and Of working in the mill dur
ing the period and their efficiency.
In addition to the ordinary gifts and sdvnn-
tages Of our government the national legisla-
ture has seen fit to specially foster and protect
by public taxation the industry Of their mills
and the state OF Pennsylvania is today guard
ing it at great and extraordinary expense.
Therefore the committee desires to express TO
the public as its firm belief that both
the public and the employees aforesaid
have equitable rights snd interests in
the said mill which cannot be modified
or diverted without due process Of law; that
the employees have the right to continuous en-
ployment in the said mill during efficiency and
good behavior without regard to religious, po-
litical or economic opinions and association;
that it is against public policy and subversion
of fundamental principles Of American liberty
that whole community Of workers should be
denied employment or suffer any other sociai
detriment on account of membership in achurch,
political party a trades union that il is our
duty as American citizens to resist by every
legal and ordinary means the unconstitutional,
anarchic and revolutionary policy Of the
Carnegie Company, which seems to evince
contempt Of public and private interests and
disdain of the public conscience by its refusal
to submit to lawful arbitration and by the law
less importation Of a band OF armed mereen-
aries to forcibly deprive the employees OF their
equitable rights in advance OF any legal adjudi-
cation thereupon, and without previous appeal
to the lawful forces Of Allegheny county and
the state of Pennsylvania.
The committee wish il known that we will
psosecute the said public and private interests
in the courts Of law and equity, and that we
demand of Congress and the state legislature
distinct assertion Of the principle 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 occa-
sion may require.
Finally we desire to state emphatically that
as defenders of and petitioners for Law and
order we pledge ourselves to refrain from vio-
lence and lawlessness, and that We rest our
cause, which is the peoples 8 cause.-the cause of
American liberty against anarchy on the one
hand and despotism on the other-with the
courts, the legislasures and the public con-
science.
Prick IN THE FraHr TO STAY.
Henry Clay Prick ID evidently in the Home
stead fight to stay. There has been evidence OF
this during the past week or two, but new testi-
mony was introduced today when Sheriff Nc
Cleary served notice Of eviction upon twenty
five Hungarian, Slav and Polish families who
nov occupy two rows Of shanties little 10 the
north Of the school house 10 which division head
quarters has been established 1t was one of those
unexpected moves Of which Mr. Frick seems 10
have large assortment, and this evening the
advisory committed will use mostof its regular
session in figuring out how the evicted ones,
when they have been thrown out, shall be shell
tered. conveyed the news Of the company's
proposed action to the committee Just after II
adjourned Last might, and there were many dark
and anger-strained faces in that little room. The
actual process Of eviction cannot take place for
ten days. 1t is understood that new tenants
will be ready to occupy the buildings - soon -
the present occupants are disposed Of.
HUGH o'DoxNKLL's CASE
HE who is his own lawyer has q fool for his
client" is an old proverb. II il be universally
true. then Hugh O'Donneu ID in an unenyiahle
position He surrendered himself yesterday
to the authorities In Pittsburg and had some
experiences which would have been humorous
II the charge against him was iss
serious. He fairly pleaded with . Judge
On the bench to take charge Of him
and Of Ross, who had accompanied him
from Homestead, and had finally 10 hunt up
constable before he could hnd man Who would
arrest him. Then, il Lawyer Cox's story b cor
rect, O'Donnen Numbered He ignored I'll the
advice given him by his sstorneys, and when
Mr.. Cox (vho Ws in this place al morning
trying 10 hx mattsrs up in . conferences with
Gov. Psttison and General Managsr rosser)
put in IN appearance ss the jail o'Donnsn IN
formed him thst hs hsd ~ ne for counsel
and intended leaving his osss in he hands Of
the court
Mr.. Coz made no eAFort 10 argue with ths i'm
prisoned leader, because - believes that when
o'Douneli ealms down hs viabs fAir 10 hinsslf,
TO his family and 10 ths osuss hs Representa-.
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