Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-07
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From All Quarters.
A DAY OF AWFUL HAVOC
Strikers and Detectives Fire
Into Each Other.
TIRE LOCKOUT 1T clRNEeIt's MILLS
Full List of the Killed and
Wounded.
The PIAkERToz MEN UNDER GUARD.
The Labor Leaders Try to
Calm the Strikers.
The PIAKERT0x MEN UNDER GUARD.
TWENTY MEN SHOT DOWN.

A Day OF Carnage at Carnegie,s
Mills Strikers Fire on Pinker.
tons sent to Guard the Works.
The Fight Kept Up Through the
Day-The Detectives Forced to
Surrender Mt Last - Amid Insults
and Blows They are Taken to an
Improvised Jail Strikers Guard
Them With Winchester Rifles -
Labor Leaders Plead Against Any
Further Bloodshed-Mr. Carnegie,s
Statement - Two Thousand Mill
Workers Come to the Aid Of the
LOcked.Out Men.
PrrTsBuRa, Pa, July 6.-Pittsburg has
had another experience with labor riots,
and this time, as during the fearful scenes
which were witnessed during the railroad
riots of 1877, blood has been shed, life
jeopardized and valuable property placed
in danger. This time there was no de-
struction of property, but the mob was
thoroughly well organized, we'll disciplined
and had efficient officers at the head to
conduct the operations. The force en-
braced all the men employed in the extern
sive plants of the Carnegie Iron and Steel
company at Homestead, some eight miles
east of Pittsburg, and a battle which for
bloodthirstiness and boldness of execution
has not been excelled in actual warfare
waged from o'clock in the morning until
5 o'clock this afternoon and only ceased
when the force of Pinkertons brought to
the place to suppress the strike uncondi-
tionally surrendered, leaving their arms in
the barges in which they had been trans
ported to the works.
THE CAUSE OF THE RIOT.
The cause of the riot to-day was the cul.
mination of the troubles which have been
brewing at Homestead for the past month
The Carnegie company submitted scale
to govern their workmen in the steel
plants, and announced that it was their ul-
timatum. The scale made a sweeping re-
duction in the wages of skilled men, and it
was officially announced that unless the
terms were complied with before July
the places of the workmen would be filed
by others. This was followed by peremp-
tory refusal of the part of the company to
recognize the Amalgamated association as
such or to confer with any committee of
the workmen short of m accept
ance of the terms offered. The
men stated that they would never
submit to the proposed reduction and
announced their determination to resist
any effort on the part of the Csrnegies to
start up their plants with non union men.
AS both sides were determined, both pro-
ceeded to prepare for the contest which
eliminated in violence and bloodshed. The
contest was precipitated by the workmen
at Homestead by hanging H. @ Trick,
president of the company, in efigy. In
retaliation the company ordered an imme
diate shut down two days before the time
provided by the contract under which the
men were working. The employees at once
procee ded to organize for the defensive and
the company erected high board fence
around the entire works, giving them the
appearance of an immense stockade, the
sides being pierced with port holes. Yester-
day the Carnegie company announced its
intention to proceed to get ready to make
repairs, and the officials asked the sheriff
to appoint deputies to protect their prop
erty. The sheriff sent a small squad of
men to the works, but the strikers assem-
bled in force and notified them to get out
of town, as no disorder was intended and
no damage would be done to any property.
They even offered to be sworn in as depu-
ties and to give bonds for the faithful per-
Torrance of their duties as conservators
of the peace. When this offer was de-
clined the advisory committee, which had
been directing the action of the workmen
and which had held the turbulent spirits
among the workmen in check, was imme-
diately dissolved and all the records of the
committee were destroyed.