The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-06-30
HUNG FRICK In EFFIGY
The Anger of the Carnegie EN-
ployes Breaks Out.
HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS MADE.

The Men Play the Hose on the Man who
Took Down the Dummy--It Was strIk-
ing Figure, with Concealed Dagger in
Hand and Pockets Filled with Bottles.
PITTsBURG, June 3O-The anger of the
Carnegie employees at the Homestead
Iron & Steel Works, that has been
smothered for month past during the
warlike preparations made by the COM
pany in the hopes that the Amalga-
mated Association scale would be
signed, broke out yesterday in several
hostile demonstrations.
During the night an efigy Of H. Q.
Frick, Uarnegie's chief representative,
WIS hung on platform supporting
pair Of water tanks near tlH river, on
the grounds of the Open Hearth Mill.
When Superintendent Potter saw the
figure he ordered his secretary, James
Dinky, TO remove it, which ne did.
The dummy was made of a pair of
overalls and a 'jumper," and was a
strik ing figure. In its right hand, held
behind the back, was a dagger. On its
breast was the label 'H. G. Frick "
After Dinky took the dummy away,
and while he was returning to the Office,
going through the Open Hearth Mill, the
men at work there turned the hose on
him and drenched him from head to
foot. superintendent Potter then shut
down the Open Hearth Mill, and the
men there don't know when work will
be resumed
The effigy was removed by the men to
g point across the railroad track, where
it was hung high on Il telegraph pole,
opposite Munhall station. 1t is there
yet, label and all, with its pockets filled
| with whisky bottles.
! About o'clock PinkerUon detective Q
was walking along the railroad track.
He was pointed out by gang of work
men to a constable as "a suspicious
character" and partly for the mans
safety, as well as to find out who he
was, the officer hustled him to the sta
tion house. 1t was well he did, for
when searched large revolver and
billy two feet long were found on
him, and if the men had discovered
these weapons the stranger would have
undoubtedly been thrown into the river,
if not worse.
Department after department of the
mill is being laid ,of on one pretext or
another and the men at Homestead, so
many being idle, have norhing to do
but to meet on the street corners and
threaten what they will do If the COM
pany attempts to non-unionize the
works
The feeling is deep-seated, ana few
in Pittsburg or Homestead think there
won't be serious trouble, ii not blood
shed, when the mills resume work,
though many are "whistling to keep
up their courage"
The situation in a nutshell right on
the eve of the great shutdown is threat
ening.
The iron manufacturers of this and the
Mahoning and Chenango Valleys are
and by this time readers of the daily
papers are fully acquainted with the
serious aspect at Homestead.
While many dark clouds have cast
their sgloomy forms over the iron and
steel workers in years gone by, it is Rd-
mitted on all sides that never before In
the history OF the Am algamated Asso-
citation has it been confronted with
such state of affairs as now exists.
The only ''silver lining" to be discov-
cred lingering about the warlike cloud s
is found in announcing that an amic-
able settlement will likely be reached
with the association of iron and steel
sheet manufacturers.
Members of the association are in
duty bound to quit work unless the
scale be signed, and as the outlook at
this writing is anything but encourag-
ing, there is every reason to suppose
that every wheel in every iron mill in
this and the Mahoning and Chenangc
Valley districts will be stopped.