The Portland daily press., 1892-07-16
BEHIND BAYONETS.
Non.Union Men Said To Be in the
Big Homestead Mills
STRIKERS AND TROOPS NOW FOES
INSTEAD OF FRIENDS.

Men in Other Mills Who Strike from Sym
pathy VIII Get No Quarter from the
Company-Frick's Vigorous Reply to
the Association at Beaver Falls-The
Troops Make Their First Arrest.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 15.-Relations
between the militia and the mill men are
becoming strained. At first the troops
were regarded as so many fellow-work-
men temporarily wearing the state uni
forms, required to preserve order, yet in
sympathy with the locked-out employees
of the Carnegie mills in their fight against
grasping capital, non-union labor, and the
Pinkertons. The advisers and leaders of
the men told them that the troops were
coming as their friends, and when the
boys in blue mingled with the townspeo-
pie, drank beer with the steel workers
and gave them cartridges in exchange for
relics of the fight with the Pinlertons,
the feeling prevailed. But after the first
day the lines have gradually been tight
ened and strict discipline prevails in the
camp and in the town. The soldiers are
under orders not to talk with mill men
and those who cannot show twenty
| rounds of cartridges have been repri-
| manded and disciplined. Last night,
when picket lines were thrown out
around the Carnegie mill, and soldiers
stood within half dozen PAGES Of each
| other along City Farm Lane, on one side
of which is the borough of Homestead,
and on the other the celebrated stockade
which Mr.. Frick placed around the mill
| in good season, the situation was made
| clear to the men. Those who were halted
At the Point of the Bayonet,
when they attempted to pass down
Eighth avenue in front of the mills, be-
came indignant, and gangs of mill men
began to gather in the town near the
mill. Down along the tracks of the
Pittsburg, McKeesport & Youghiogheny
| railroad, which runs through the Carne-
gle property. several gangs of men were
! dispersed by the patrol at and o'clock
| this morning. The special policemen OF
| the borough ordered these men to go to
their homes, but the men refused and
would not move on The patrol then
| took the matter in hand and cleared the
streets. The mill men had been drink
| ing, and indulged in loud talk, defying
the military authorities as well as the To-
cal police. Right at the cornero of the
| mill property crowd of excited strikers
| gathered and blocked the sidewalk near
| " all night. They taunted the soldiers,
whose picket line was not 20 feet away,
and refused to go to their homes when
asked by their leaders, who feared col
| lision.
The first clash between the civil and
the military authorities occurred shortly
after midnight Amos Stewart, the high
constable of the borough, was arrested
| by the patrol and placed in the guard
house until morning. He had been
drinking too freely and finally became so
boisterous that the patrol ordered him
to go home. He refused, and declared
| that no brass buttoned militia men could
| take him in. He was released at
o'clock this morning.
! About 1.30 o. clock this morning there
was
A Hurried Beating to Arms
throughout the second brigade and a
scurrying of officers, which was very
| warlike. Information had been received
| that the camp was to be attacked from
the rear by the loclzed-out men before
| daylight. Where the rumor came from
no one knew, but it was sufficient to
| arose the entire brigade, to have the
/ guards doubled everywhere and to
keep the Sixteenth Regiment under
| arms all night. Meanwhile the locked
out men slept peacefully in bed, totally
unaware of the alarm they were causing
in camp. AT an early hour this morning
| the guards around the mill fence were
| tripled and later around the entire mill
so that now the guardsmen are only 9
few feet apart around the entire plant.
Rumors of the coming of non-union
| men were current during the night, and
caused excitement among both soldiers
and strikers. Some of the former who
were on duty sent kilograms to their
| families and the advisory committee Of
the mill men got together at midnight
and sent out scouts to intercept the new
men, These scouts were directed to use
arguments only and to explain the situa
ton and appeal to the men as fellow
workmen and ask them for the sake Of
their wives and families to remain away
They were instructed to ask the
men if they were coming to take the
places Of mill men because they needed
help for themselves. If so, they were tx
be offered assistance until they coulo
find work elsewhere. The river from
was watched all night by strikers anG
reporters, but there were no signs of the
men.
| The Fifteenth regiment remained OF
duty this morning, stationed at the
depot, along the railroad and at the in
tersection of the principal streets.
The townspeople are getting ac
customed to the presence of the troops
and business is lively at all the stores
The telegraph Office and headquarters 0
the newspaper men are visited frequent
ly by mill men anxious to learn if an,
news of the approach of non-union mel
has been reported.
1t is reported that there are alread.
Fifty Non-Union Workmen.
in the Carnegie mills, but the Carnegie
managers deny this. Fire was startec
in one of the heaters today and whel
the steam rose a large body of striker
made hasty movement toward the gait
Of the mill. The provost patrol hurried
lv cot between them and the entrance
Bayonets were brought to charge ant
the men halted. Among other symptoms
| ,o,o1ua1 actiUitv at the mill tOda,