Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-12
THEIR BIG RESOURCES.
What the Amalgamated Association
and Federation Of Labor
CAN COMMAND IN THE WAY OF
Financial Aid for the Homestead
Strikers How the Settlement
Made by the Other Mills Affects
the Carnegie COmpany-A Re
view Of the Homestead Sltua-
tiOn in General.

HOMESTEAD, PA, August 1l.-Wm.
A Carney. member of the General EX-
ecutive Council of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, who is also Vice Presl-
dent of the Amalgamated Association OF
Iron and Steel Workers, arrived III
Homestead this evening 70 arrange for
the quarterly meeting Of the Council OF
the Federation, which will meet mere
tomorrow. On the Council are Samuel
Gompers, President Of the American
Federation and representative from the
CiCarmakers' International Union;
Chris. Evans, of the United Mine
Workers; j. b. Lehman, OF the Ialors
and Critters Union; Z. j. Mcclure, Cen
eral Secretary Brotherhood OF Carpen-
ters and Joiners, and VIM. a Carney.
The Executive Council always meets
In New York, but this time IL will con-
vene here. While the usual business
of the Council will be attended 10. yet
the chief object Of the meeting IS the
consideration of the Homestead trouble.
q non this subject Mr.. Carney said; "A
boycott on Carnegie material is 70 be
considered aud interested IN 10 are 81
900 carpenters, 100000 persons engaged
in bridge building aud the operatives In
shipyards where armOr plate Is used.
1--WE are willing TO bring about any
kind of honorable settlement u II Is pos
sible. but if MeSsrs. Lovej0y and Frick
and associates are determined on mani
Testing nothing else but an aggressive
disposition towards us, there is no al
ternative left us after having recourse
TO eyerv other honorable method TO
hiring about a fair and honorable ad-
iustmept of the difficulty, but 70 meet
them with their own weapons, feeling
confident that with the resources behind
ms. we most assuredly will come out
victorious
What are the resources ~ asked the
Associated Press representative.
''Now that a satisfactory adjustment
of the bar iron scale is obtained, we
shall have a large source Of income 20
prosecute the Homestead fight, for
many thousand Amalgamated men 90
90 work i'm the near future, and every
one has intimated his intention OF vol
unfairly subscribing 10 per cent. Of his
wages. irrespective OF whether tt IS
S1.E0or $40 per day. In the aggregate
~alis would mean 100000 every two
weeks, and j feel that / am uudereSt-
mating the amount, for in the first. or
Pittsburg division, there are 5000
members; I'm the third, or MahOning
and Ohio Valleys, 5000; in the fourth
or Chicago aud Wisconsin district,
5000. and in the fifth, or IT. Louis and
Alabama district, 5000 steel and iron
workers.
'In addition TO this will come the as
sistance Of the American Federation OF
Labor and the Knights of Labor which
has already demonstrated its co-Opera-
tion not by resolution, but by checks.
The laws Of the American Federation
provide that two cents per week on all
members affiliated can be levied for the
period of FIVE weeks for the assistance
of any union engaged in a legaliZed
conflict. This assessment is subject to
renewal at the discretion Of the Presi-
deut OF the American Federation OF
Labor. This means ten cents in FIVE
weeks on almost one million men tany
rate"