The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-30
CARNEGIE WILL NOT YIELD
abduction CT Wages Co DO Enforced ssss
Serious Trouble E1pected

seu"ction OF Wages te BIO Enforced szsd
Serious Trouble Expected,
PrrrsBURoi June 2a.-The prospects,
o. settlement of the wage difficulty I'd
e@Tnegie's Homestead plant is growiney
smaller as the date of the ex piration o.
the present ssale approaches. The
workers present i firm front and assert
positively that they will not accept the
reduction, and the firm is equally deter.
mined in the stand; taken. 1t is stated
upon what is considered d thoroughlv
reliable source that every union man
IN the employ of the Carnegie works at
homestead will be dismissed on july Il.
Ihe present scale expires or June 30,
ana 1t is asserted the firm. has deter
mined TO run the mil with non.union
men hereafter.
The works were running 50 all de-
partments today, but the unGercurrent
OF feeling is very strong, and If non.
union mon are put to work it is feared
there will be trouble. The firm realize
this, and have taken every precaution
TO protect their plant. The property is
entirely surrounded by new high board
fence andlerge revolvingeleotrie search
lights have been placed In the skyliph to
OF the millsi so that objects over q mile
distant are plainly visible on the dark
est night.
Something of q sensation. was caused
today by the report that hot water will
DC thrown from the fire plugs In ease
the men should attempt to surround the
mills or enter between the high board
walls: Dangerous portfolios look out
ON thlS narrow passageway from the
Of 2 hn
that in case of trouble it will be made
very hot for,any ono seeking to enter
this pass. The men claim, that desec.
tives are already on the ground in CON
siderable fUrce, but this, is denied by
the firm.
All strangers arc regarded with dis
trust, ana number who have appeared
In the town have been hustled out again
by the men in. an unoeremonious man
ner. Ono man, who arrived to day.
stated that he had been engaged to go
to work on July /. A crowd of ironaad
steel workers took charge of him and,
placing him in ferryboat, warned him
to keep away. Altogether; the situa-
ton at HON estead is>ominous, and july
IS awaited with grave apprehensipns
The iron wages trouble presents moth
ing new; no signatures to tho scale have
cSOii iSSoAScu ny Iuc tlHAmQUeQ AS
ISOLATION, and as but three days remain
until the expiration, of the scale gen
eral strike of the workmen, in all but
the sheet, tin-plate and wire rod 10 ills
seems inevitable. This would mean
idleness for upward of fifty Thousand
men. The National Rolling Mills OF
the National Tube Works Company, at
Mckeesport, and all OF its, employees,
have made an arrangement of mutual
satisfaction to govern the operations at
this point for the ensuing Year, Two
thousand men are interested
conference of the sheet and sin
plate manufacturers and committee of
the amalgamated association is now in
session. 1t is thought an anicable set
Element will be reached before ad ow,n.
ment and a strike in these departments
averted. d. B. Oliver, Of the Oliver
Steel Company, says there is no signifl-
canoe attached to his company signing
the steel scale. 1t will have no effect
uDOn the iron situation