Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-07-21
THE STEEL SCRAP.
Strikers Claim That Carnegic
Cannot Run His Mills With
Out Them.
Guarded Figures as to
the Cost of Production
Leak Out.

HOMESTEAD. Pa. July lS.-All is quiet on
the Monongahela tonight though stories
about men having been placed in the MILL
rumors about the desperate purposes OF the
strikers and reports about the preparations
OF the military to quit the scene are extant.
UP to o'clock this evening no new men
had hecu introduced through TIE Carnegie
gates. The new men are confidently cx-
pectcd be ore the formal opening of the
works on Thursday. but the strike leaders
do not believe that any of them viii be in
troduced until after Il is seen how many
applications for work have been made by
the old men. Tint some OF these
Will De made is gu certain. A CIV OF the
old employees hay interviewed H.. mill
'ary atout the protection which will be
afforded to men going to work, ANA the
carnegie company sees in this u s"mp,om
| OF dlslntcgration am ny the ioch ed. out
men which it HATS with genuine relief.
oicourse their visits to headquarters have
been made secretly. as the great majority
OF the men are still strongly with the ANAL
gamatcd association.
| FLAT REFUSAL.
a mass meeting was held at the rink to-
day nj which about 400 of the employees
were present who represented the mechan-
lcal department and the day laborers.
| These men are not members OF the ANAL
gainatcd association. but have been in SYM
| pathy with il. Some hail a dozen speeches
| were made as to the poster put up by Mr.
| Frick inviting the old men back 10 work
| and the following resolutions passed unan-
| imousiy.
That we are in sympathy with the
AmalHamated association and pledge our
selves TO stand WITH them TO the end; that
we consider IT an injustice to the mechn!i-
cal department and DAY laborcrs and an
Insult TO their mauhoot 10 ask them to
work under guard, AS we believe in this
land OF the rec. all men should be rec"
Ihls means that the repair work. winch
was to have been hpgun tomorrow vii! not
be undertaken ~ ;he old mo- wlo will
not so back 10 ~oIE. and i.n. new .uen
Will have 10 he brought in tbs company
proposes 10 reopen the works on Thursday
next, as all the furnaces are cold, and much
rebuilding Hll have 10 be done
1t is SIMPLY Il matter OF impossibilty 10
untansie all the contradictory stories which
are being told about all these rev men,
For instance, number Of lie :rocs are ex-
pccted rom West Virginia and Alabama
furnaces. draft OF eighty men is said TO
be coming from Ohio. The advisory com
nit,ee has heard OF efforts 10 enroll me-
chanics in Chicago and 81. Louis, supposed
10 be for the Carnegie company, bu, u ter
all the rumors are siltcd down there IS no
truth 10 be found at the bottom OF them
Some o! the pilgrims are expected tonight
but the chances seem to be that they will
not come. AT any rate the advisory com
y,Nst
evening.
TALK OF BoYCoTTING
II is claimed by the leaders q the sttik-
ers that the Anal gamated association holds
the winning hand. no matter what may
happen. II the ipi!is are stntted ~ nom
union men they conienO tini the mistakes
that will occur, ana the hcavv financial
losses consequent TO them. w!ll cause the
company 10 shu, down the mills IN sheer
self Interest. The quality of the product
turned out by the unskiiled labor will be
SO inferior. say the leaders. that il cannot
ind market. ii the product is ready Tor
shipping, ii is claimed that greater litt-
Guilty will confront The company in the
refusal OF railroad men TO handle any
material turned out from the Carnegie
works. Assurances rom SO many unions
OF freight handlers have been received II,
this connection that Inc Amalyanated asso-
citation feels confident OF preven,in: the
product OF the Carnegie mills male by
non-union men from being catried 10 the
places stipulated in the contracts. Even il
this tai! the locked out workers claim they
have another trump card TO play. This is
the action OF unions OF carpenters and o!
many organizations composed of men en-
gagged IN the construction OF buildings and
other structures i'll re using TO perform
work on any erection on which products
from the Carnegie mills are used. With
these and other circumstances TO support
hon lf,nl nd I'll ..t III
stead with
STRONG FINANCIAL BACKING
hope to bring ne Carnegie 80 ,pany to the
terms dictated by the ar.,ni.alna;cd associa-
ton. Both sides admit thn' there is no
immediate prospec, OF a set, ,m.n, o, the
more than 81, 100000 One 4" the leaders
Of the locked-out men said day that as
surancos have been received rom unions
whose mcmbers handle the product OF the
Homestead mill tina, they sand ready 10
declare n general boycott against Carnegie
handlers union. which will refuse to ship
iron and steel to and from the mili struct-
tural ship builders and others, who will
qui, work rather than use the product of
non-union men. All this tends to show
that III case that the Carnegie company
ovcrco,nes the present obstacle. in its path
and succeeds III starting and operating its
plant with y ',-nnion labor it will con.
front q greater difficulty; and If it continues
in its determination to employ non. union
labor, it will precipitate strike on the
principal railway. and many OF the great
manu-. acturing industries OF this country
Once More the Pinksrtons.
Bos1oN, July lS.-The central labor union
of this city to-day adopted the following:
"That the Bottom Central Labor anion,
representing over fifty thousand citizens Of
this commonwealth call upon the COM
mittee investigating the Homestead trouble
to widen their report by demanding an in
vestigation OF the Pinkertons' headquarters
with q view to obtaining the true inward
ness of the Pinkerton service, with its alien
alliance, as a danger to the public morals
and to the safety OF the republic