The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-30
THE SECOND MONTH
ofthe Strike at Homestead Opens
Up Rather DlscouraginGly for
THE LOCKED OUT MILL WORKERS.
over Seven Hundred Men at Work in
the Carnegie MiIl.--The Firm Claim
TO BIO Getting Along Nicoly---NOn-
Union Men Receive Threatening
Lctters..-Enects ofthe Strike on the
Business Interests of Homestead.
Stone Throwing to be Stopped.

HOMESTEAD, PA, July 2a.-The Sec
ond month of the great Homestead
strike OPENS rather discourasingly SO
far as the locked out men are con-
cerned, though they do not in the
slightest admit it, and express as great
confidence in ultimate victory as ever.
On the 10th of June, 1000 men having
been locked out, 1900 others struck
out Of sympathy, and only few watch
men were left around the plant To-
day there are about 725 men working in
the mill and the firm claims it has a
quantityof beams ready for shipment.
The locked out men have no access to
the non-unionists to endeavor to in
ducethem to come out while daily the
firm is filing vacancies and training
new men for the works. Meanwhile
the effect of the lockout is already be-
ing felt in the town. To-day Constable
Stewart closed a grocery store. the
owner concluding to go out of business
on account of the falling off in cash
trade and his inability to carry on an
extensive credit businessfor any length
oftime. A number OF merchants, while
in sympathy with the locked out men,
are deciding upon plan whereby they
will sell at absolute cost to all locked
out men during the trouble.
The relief committee which has
charge of all poorer paid labor now in
cluded in the lockout still meets all de-
mands upon it for aid, though daily the
long line gof persons in the great as
sembly room at headquarters lengthens
one by one.
The non-union men are beginning to
receive an astonishing number OF
threatening letters. They are dropped
from the railroad trestle, slipped
through cracks in the fence, wrapped
around stones and hurled from boats up
the bank and over the steel barricade
which still remains the sole reminder
of the riot, save few charred remains
Of the barges. The following missive
found under the Pemicky trestle is a
fair sample OF these letters:
HOMESTEAD. July 20.
Nor1oE-All non.union men desiring
toleave Carnegie's works will be pro-
vided for by the union men OF Home:
stead. But all who stay at work will
seek his God. All are being spotted.
Beware"
eve have told all the men If any feel
alarmed over the threats and want to
leave they can do &C" said Mr.. H. NJ.
Curry. one OF the firm this morning.
''None are afraid though. The story OF
the men being prisoners here is rot"
Members OF the advisory committee
denied this morning that the Anal
gamated Association men have any
hand in the written threats and claim
if the nonIunionists would walk around
the borough they wouldn not be molested.
None OF the new Carnegie operatives
are anxious, however, to take such
chances, and as result, not one has
ever yentured beyond the mill gates.
Messrs. Potter and Curry gave out the
following regarding mill operations this
morning:
1.-THE 23-inch mill started single turn
this morning, and all departments in
operation yesterday are working stead
lily. In the new cogging and beam mills
the men are familiarizing themselves
with the work and the machinery will
soon be started. A quantity Of steel
beams are now ready for shipment and
will be sent at once. The reports of
general boycotts OF the products of the
mill have proven untrue. When Gus
toners learned the firm was making
beams they sent letters asking to be fa-
yored with first orders and many have
come to Homestead in person. The
firm expects an attempt will be made in
some places to boycott its products, but
does not anticipate any material annoy
ance therefrom. Twenty-Five men ar
rived at Swissvale from Philadelphia
this morning, several being skilled steel
workers. Two Of the arrivals were paid
and discharged, as the firm did not like
their appearance. Tho others were
taken into the mill, and will be put at
work Immediately"
AZ result of the stone throwing from
passing trains last night, the railroad
company has placed detectives on the
trestle, and will arrest any persons who
repeat the oftense. Hugh o'Donnell
yet remains away, but members Of the
advisory committee are in communica-
ton with him and seem to expect some
thing favorable as result OF his mis-
sion.
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