The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-23

HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 22.-The ad-
ysory committee OF tho locked out
Homestead workmen issued state
ment to-day defining theirposition. Tho
statement is as follows:
"Thc most evident characteristic OF
our time and country is tho plcnomc-
non OF industrial Capitalization, and is
uniting the control of each OF our great
national industries into the hands Of
one or lew mon, and giving those men
enormous and despotic power over tho
lives and tho fortunes Of their en-
Moves and subordinatcs, tho grea. mass
Of the peoplc-a power which yitiatcs
o,,r national constitution and our com.
mon law and directly antugonizos the
snirit of universal history in its world
wide struggle after lawful llberty--a
mower which, though expressed in
terms OF current speech as "thc Eight OF
employers to manage their business to
suit themselves" is causing to mean in
effect nothing less than q right to man
ace tho country to suit themselves.
"Tbo employees in the mill OF 0le5srs.
Carnegie Phipps & Co., at Homestead,
Pa. have built there town, with its
homes, its schools and its churches
have for many years been faithful CO.
workers with the company in the bust.
ness OF the mill; have invested thOus-
nnds of dollars OF their savings in the
said town with the expectation OF
spending thoir lives in Homestead and
Of working in the mill during the per-
iod Of their efficiency.
"The national legislature has seen fit
to specially foster and protect by pub
lie taxation the industry OF their mills,
and the state OF Pennsylvania is to-day
guarding it at great and extraordinary
expense. Therefore the committee de-
sires to express to the public US its firm
belief, that both the public and theem-
ploves aforesaid have equitable rights
and interests in the said mill, and can.
not be diverted or modified without
due process OF law; that the employees
have the right TO continuous employ
men in the said mill during efficiency
and good behavior without regard to re-
ligious, political or economic opinions
and associations; that it is against pub
lie policy ana subversive OF the funda-
mental principles of American liberty
that whole community OF workers
should be denied employment or suffer
any other detriment on account OF
membership in church, q political
party or trades union; that 1t Is our
duty as American citizens to resist by
every legal and ordinary means the
unConstit ltional, anarchical and rovolu-
tiOnary policy OF the Carnegie COM
pany, which seems to evidence con-
Tempt OF public and private interests
and disdain OF the public conscience
BY its refusal to submit to lawful arbi-
tration, and by the lawless importation
OF band OF armed mercenaries to forcl-
bly, deprive the employees OF their
equitable rights in advance Of any legal
adjudication thoreupon, and without
previous appeal to tho lawful forces of
Allegheny county and the state OF
Pennsylvania.
1.-THE committee wishes 1t known that
We will prosecute the said public and
private interests in the courts OF law
aud equity, and that we demand OF Con-
gress and the state legislature distinct
assertion OF the principle that the pub
lie has an interest in such concerns as
that at Homestead, and that the state
has a duty to judge the affairs Of such
concerns when occasion may require.
FINALLY, we desire to state emphat-
ically that rs defenders Of aud peti-
TONERS for law and order, we pledge
ourselves to refrain from violence and
lawIessnrss, and that we rest our cause,
which is the peoples cause, the cause
OF American liberty, against anarchy on
one hand and despotism on the other-
with the courts, the legislatures and tho
public conscience"