Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-09
At CARNEGIE
Armed Guards on the Lookout
for More PinkertOns.
If They Come Another Battle Will
Surely Result,
. And the Scenes of Wednesday
viii Be Repeated.
ASSISTANCE OFFERED FROM SEVERAL
PLACES.

The Perfection of the Organization OF
the HON estead Army of Steel Workers
Hardly to BE Surpassed by Military
Comparatively Secret System of Signals
by Which All Could BE Aroused in
Five Minutes--Ar Suggested.
Frick, in an Interview, Admits He
Hired the Pinkertons-Notes of the
Struggle for Supremacy.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 9.-Thursday
night was a night of watchfulness. At
every conceivable point about the famous
steel plant stood men, who, by their ac-
tions, have proven beyond question their
fidelity to the cause for which 1000 men
have placed their lives as a sacrifice in
order that victory might be perched on
the, side of the organized labor.
In Homestead those strong and
hearted men who handled and
kept up continuous fire of seventeen
hours duration, are called the 'brave
heroes and champions Of organized
labor"
The general public can scarcely be
made to believe the conduct Of the local
steel workers, but when it is considered
when seven out of every ten Of them
have families, own homes and have
been accustomed to enjoying the peace
fitness of their domestic cares, one can
readily grasp the causes leading to the
present conflict.
Thursday midnight your reporter, III
company with squad of men, paid a
visit through the principal sections OF
the plant. just as we had stepped upon
the platform leading from the Pittsburg
and Charleston railroad trestle to then
works, the sound of mans voice was
heard,
Halt, who Goes There?"
Satisfactory explanations were made
and we were allowed to go on our way,
AT every one hundred yards or so men
were on watch, and should any more
boats or barges have landed there were
enough men about the place to repulse
any sudden attack.
One of the striking features is to be
found in closely examining into the i'll
nermost details of the organization
formed by the men. Military compa
MES with all their training and with all
the
Tactics of War
could hardly surpass the perfection OF
the working of the Homestead army OF
wage earners.
There is not man in ignorance of all
proposed actions and the secret system OF
signals is such as to put every one on
their guard within five Minutes notice
The promptness with which the guards
suspicious We're aroused, the eagernes'
of each and every one to remain right n
the front plainly showed the zoalousnes
which characterized their actions
Assistance offered.
The ire of the iron and steel workers
in every part of the Pittsburg and Mahon
ing and Shenago valley laborers is APP
parently aroused. AS the leaders herr
have been notified that the assistance o.
at least 5000 men can be secured.
AT O'clock Thursday night q deputa
ton of twenty men arrived at head
quarters, and notified those present tina
900 men from the MahoninE and She
mango valley We're ready to start fo
Homestead mt a moments warning, anC
would do all in their power to aid tn
locked-out employees. The sympath,
shown by Amalgamated association mel
in all parts of the country is great, an'
messages of congratulation and offers o
assistance were frequently received,
All the men who stood at the front il
Wednesdays remarkable battle are nov
ready again to stand their lives ready
and only await later developments.
Arbitration the Thing.
NEW York, July 0.-The Worl
suggests and urges that the labo
troubles at Homestead be referred fo