Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-11

the strike is over. We are proceeding care
fully and get only evidence to certainty
before the charge is made. We mean to
make no mistake"
"Who is getting information for you P'
"'fhe best detective skill in the country
has been engaged. We have had officers
Of long experiences at work at Homestead
and the informations | make are on evil
dence received by the semen who will be
here and give sworn testimony. We have
also the assistance of Sheriff McCleary and
his deputies, and of the city and local
forcen
on the other hand. w. ]. Brennan, the
Amalgamated Associations attorney, says
that the strikers do not propose to be
behind the company in the matter of
prosecutions and the riot and melting To
riot charges will be made early this week
against the members of the firm and the
Pinkertons.
Mr. Brennan adds that they are waiting
for certain Information, and that when il
is received something else may turn un
He also said that association was necessary
| i'll this age, and workmen must unite and
hold their own against the capitalists, He
| concluded by remarking that the arbitra-
| ton papers had been received in the com
pany, but il the members of tho firm de-
cline to take up the issue nothing further
can be done, AS the law is not compulsory.
one VICTORY FOR THE COMPANY.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, aug. s,The strikers
at Duquesne went to work this morning,
and the Carnegie Steel Company haa
| scored one victory Saturday night Super
! intendent Morrison posted n notice that all
men who had applied for their old iobe
should report at the mill at 7 o'clock, thu
morning, AS the mill would resume at thsi
| hour.
| Long before the time set, however,
workers with dinner pals quietly stole up
| nnfrequented streets and along the rail-
road tracks and entered the mill undis-
covered by their brother strikers. As Z
| O'Clock approached the number of men
who had entered the mill yard through
| this means reached 400 About go men
who were leaders in the sympathy strike
movement gathered on the road near the
mill gate and watched in moody silence
| the men going into work.
Finally, the mill whistle blew for
| o'clock. At that large lrishman ex-
| claimed in loud voice, We'll, men,
THE ZIG Is UP,
| we had better hustle for our old places"
| This was signal for panic and the en-
| tire crowd ran towards the gate. A freight
train was backing in front of the gate, but
| the men did not wait for 1t to be moved
but scrambled over and under il in their
frantic haste tosget inside the mill before
the whistle stopped blowing. 1t was q
complete stampede.
ONE MORE NoN-uNIoN MILL.
The men were organized into the ANAL
gamated Association at no little expense,
and they went out on the sympathy strike
about two weeks ago. BY their surrender
they are expelled from the Amagamated
Association and the Carnegie Company has
one more non-union mill.
The effect of the break at Duquesne can
not but prove harmful to the men at
Homestead, although the leaders will not
believe it vet, At Duquesne steel bilets can
be manufactured and sent to Homestead to
be rolled into plates by the non-union
So that the firm will be in far better condi-
ton TO fill contracts and prosecute its
fight.