Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-29
A NEW SCALE PREPARED

| ."nlcn bno AWPlOyee OF UNION 3nG
Beaver Falls MILLS Must sign-Noa'
Union Men in other Mills
PITTsBURG, July 2S.-The Carnegie com
pany have prepared q scale for the Union
and Beaver Falls plants which the new
men or those Of the former employees who
return will be required to sign. The scale
will extend until January, 1894, and the
wages will be the same as paid the Anal.
gamsted workmsn, but no association will
be recognized. The fres have been started
In the Union mills and work will probably
be resumed in . few days. The tronbls
with the transportation men at the Edgar
Thomson works, Brsddock, has been set
tied. It was reported tonight that Jones
and Laughlin of the American works had
decided to start their plant with non-union
men. These works employ 8, 800. B. r.
Jones, the principal owner, II ex-chairman
Of the national republican committee.
Aollick, the alleged accomplish of Berk-
man, arrived this evening and was locked
up.
ST. LOUIS MEN SECURED.
ST. LOUIS, July 2S.-An agent of the
Carnegie company is actively at work
engaging workmen for the mills at Home
stead. Many employees of the Vulcan and
Jupiter iron and steel works, which have
been idle for some time, have been engaged.
1t Is said that lis men have been sent to
Pittsburg on free transportation during
the last week.
THEY WOULD NOT GO
To Homestead to Take the Places OF
Re the Strikers-One Man stabbed and
4 Score or Others Wounded-They
Did Not Know Where They Were
Goine-They Burst Open the Car
Door and Escaped Near whitehall.
PrrrsBURa, July 2S.-A riot occurred
this morning ON . Baltimore and Ohio
trsin on which party of ifty-si1 nom
union men were being transported from
Cincinnati to Pittsburg to work in the
Carnegie steel works at Homestead. In
the fracas one man was stabbed in the
forehead with bsyonet In the hands of an
armed guard, another had thumb chewed
off, and nearly score of others were badly
bruised in an attempt to regain their lib
erty. When the train reached PittsburR
there were only twenty one men aboard In
addition to the armed guard, the other
thirty-five having escaped from the car be-
tween Whitehall station on the Wheeling
division and the station in this city.
When they left Cincinnati the men did
not know that they were being taken to
Homestead, and when they found It out
they rebelled. That is how the riot start
ed. Joseph Msnning,a resident of Cincin-
natl, about twenty years of age, says he
will make affidavit to this. He is print
er's apprentice and until last Tuesday was
employed on the Enquirer. He said:
ION last Thursday answered an ad-
vertisement in the Enquirer offering en-
ployment at easy labor and good wages
called at the Office of F. w. Nye, No. no
Longworth street, and was offered work
at Pittsburg. Nye said that 1t was easy
and that would be paid II cents an hour
and get my first months board free, and
would have three months in which to pay
back my car fare. No mention was made
others, 1 started to Pittsburg. There
were seven puddlers and q number of steel
workers from Covington and Newport,
Ky, in the party, and they, too, sup
posed that they were to get work in Pitts
burg. After leaving Cincinnati all the
doors were locked and windows fastened
down, and we were not allowed to open
them. Mr.. Nye was in charge personally.
early this mornin9-we had all been
sleeping-when we awoke we were sur
prised to find both doors to our carguard-
ed by q Waterman with q gun on his
shoulder. We then became suspicious and
some of the puddlers sized up the situa-
ton, and one of the guards asked:
where are we going to work.
"sAt Homestead was the reply.
''Ths puddlers gathered around the
guard and demanded that the doors be un-
locked and that they be allowed to leave
the car. The guard refused to let them
pass. and some Of the puddlers jumped on
him. Then there was terrible scene.
Every man in the car jumped from
his seat, some making for the doors,
others tried to break through the win
dows and some got into a fight. The guard
struck one of the puddlers with the bsyo-
his forehead. In their frantic efforts to
get out of the car the men got into fight
among themselves, and for about an hour
there was . perfect reign of terror, and
many heads and noses were broken.
cat Whitehall the guard was thrown
from his position and the door burst open.
The men commenced to jump of,
and they kept dropping of all the
way to the city. 1 escaped in the crowd
at the depot. The other men I suppose
went on to Homestead. The guards made
~ httotuPt W saoOI, Out useu tn6lr gum
as clubs. Several of the men were severe
ly injured, one losing q thumb. do not
think that man ON the car knew that We
were destined to Homestead, for when
that place was mentioned this morning
they became as frantic as animals"
Young Manning is now at the Amslga-
mated association headquarters and has re-
lated his story to the officers. This after
noon he will make affidavit to the above
statement, which will probably be used
in legal proceedings to prevent the trans.
portation of men under similar circum-
stances.