The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-07-29
ANOTHER LABOR RIOT.
CARNEGIE TRYING TO FORCE
NON-UNION MEN TO WORK.
LabOrers Hired and Shipped With
Guards at the Doors of
the Car.

By Telegraph to the State Chronicle.
PITTsBURG, Pa, July 28.-A riot oc-
CURED this morning on B. s. O. train,
on which a party of non-union men
were being transported from Cincinnati,
Ohio, to Pittsburg, to work in the Carne-
gle steel works, at Homestead. In the me-
lee one man was stabbed in the forehead
with a bayonet in the hands of an armed
guard. Another had thumb chewed off,
and nearly score of others were bruised
in an attempt to regain their liberty.
When the train reached Pittsburg only
twenty-one men were BOARD in addi-
tion to the armed guard, the other thir-
ty-tive having escaped from the car be-
tween Whitehall station on the Wheeling
division and the depot in this city. When
they left Cincinnati the men did not
know that they we're being taken to the
Homestead mills, and when they found
it out they rebelled. That is how the
riot had its inception. Joseph Manning
is the name of young man who will
| affidavit to these facts. Manning is a
resident of Cincinnati, and is 20 years
of age. He is printers apprentice,
and until last Tuesday was employed on
the Enquirer He said: son last Thurs
day answered an advertisement in the
Enquirer offering employment at easy
labor and good wages. called at the
office of F. w. Nye, 40 Longworth
street, and was offered work at Pitts
burg. Nye said il was easy,
and that I would be. paid seven
teen 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 of
Homestead. Yesterday, with fifty five
others, l started to Pittsburg. There
were seven puddlers and number of
steel workers from Covington and New
port, KY, in the party, and they
too, supposed they were to get work ir
Plttsburg. After leaving Cincinnati all
the doors were locked and windows
fastened down and we were not allowed
to open them. Early this morning we
were surprised to find both doors of oul
car guarded by watchman with gur
on his shoulder, We then became suspic
ious and some of the puddlers sizeC
up the situation, and going to one of th'
guards asked: Where are we going t(
wok k?" cat Homestead" was the re
ply. The puddlers gathered around th
guard and demanded that the doors b.
unlocked and that they be allowed t.
leave the car. The guard refused to lie
them pass and then the puddlers jumped
, on them. Then there was a terrible scene
Every man in the car 'upapad from hi
, seat, some making for the doors, other
tried to break through the windows an
. seme got into fight. The guard struc
one of the puddlers with the bayonet G
his gun and cut long cash across hi
= forehead. In their frantic efforts t
get out of the car the me
q got into fight among them
e selves, and for about half an hou
= there was perfect reign of terro
. and many heads and noses were broker
y At Whitehall, the guard was throw
from his position and the door was burl
open. The men commenced to jump o
and they kept dropping off all the wa
to the city and escaped. The other mel
suppose, went on to Homestead. TT
:. guards made no attempt to shoot, b,
!. used their guns as clubs. Several of tt
n men were severely injured, one losing
p thumb. | do not think man on tt
NJ car knew that we were destined
!, Homestead, for when that place w
10 mentioned this morning they became
IN frantic as animals" The above stat
ments will probably be used in legal pr
ceedings to prevent the transportati(
n of the men under similar circumstance