The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-15
TEN THOUSAND OUT.
Foremen and Superintend-
ents Declare for the
Carnegie Mill
Strikers.
NO NoN-UNIoNISTS YET.
all Street Gatherings Dispersed.
Great Hopes Based on the
Sympathy Strike.

HOMESTEAD, Pa. July IA, 1892.-The
total number of men on strike at Home
stead and Pittsburg last night reached
10000. The night at Homes tead was one
OF unrest and apprehension. A number
or meetings were held by the strikers and
the town was thoroughly picketed by the
militia.
Last night when picket lines were
thrown OUT around the Carnegie mill and
soldiers stood within half a dozen PAGES
of each other along City Farm lane, on
one side of which is the borough of
Homestead, and on the other the cele-
brated stocKade which Mr.. Frick placed
around the mill. 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, became indignant and gangs Of
mill men began to gather in the town
near the mill. Down along the tracks of
the Pittsburg, McKe esport and Youghio-
gheDy Railroad, which runs through the
Carnegie property, several gangs of men
were dispersed by the patrol at two and
three O'Clock this morning.
DISPERSED BY THE SOLDIERS.
The special policemen of the borough
ordered these men to go to their homes,
but the men refused and would not move
on. The military patrol then took the
matter in hand and cleared the streets.
The mill men had been drinking and in
dulged in loud talk, defyiRg the military
authorities as we'll as the local police.
Right at the corner of the mill property a
crowd of excited strikers gathered and
blocked the sidewalk nearly all night.
They taunted the soldiers, whose picket
line was not twenty feet away, and re-
fused to go to their homes when asked by
their leaders, who feared collision.
The first clash between the civil and
ho top N CHI IN
after midnight AL1os Stewart, the High
Constable Of the borough, was arrested
by the patrol and placed in the guard
house until morning. He had been drink
ing too freely and finally became so bois-
ferrous that the patrol ordered him to go
home. He refused and declared that no
brass-buttoned militiaman could take
him in. He was released at eight O'Clock
this morning.
ARE THE ''sCABs" COMING.
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 fam
lilies. and bhe Advisory Committee of the
mill men got together at midnight and
sent out scouts TO intercept the new men.
These scouts were directed 10 use argu-
ments only, and to explain the situation,
and to appeal to the men as feifow work
men and ask them for the sake OF the
wives and families of Homestead 20 re-
main away.
They were Instructed to ask the men if
they were coming here to take the places
OF mill men because they needed help for
themselves. If they replied in the afflr-
NATIVE they were to have assistance offer
ed to them until they could find work
elsewhere.
The river front was watched all night
by strikers, but there were no signs of the
men,
The 18th Regiment remained ON duty
this morning, and the line of pickets sur
rounding the mill was not removed.
Platoons of the provost guard patrolled
the streets and pickets We're stationed at
the depot. along the railroad and at the
intersection of the principal street.
Business was lively at all the stores
this morning. The telegraph offices were
visited frequently by mill men, anxious to
learn If any news of the approach of nom
union men had been reported.
FoREMEN HELP THE STRIKERS.
A meeting of foremen, superintendents
of the departments and boss N echanics Of
the Carnegie mill was held yesterday, and
action was taken which was expected to
have an importan5 bearing on the sftua-
tion. These men were not on strike, and
had not until then taken any action fav-
orable to the workers.
They resolved that they would not oper-
ate the works under an armed guard.
This decision practically, the strikers say,
meant that the mills would not be run
with non-union labor, and the Carnegie
Company must setGle with its Homestead
men before resuming operations.
Several members of the Advisory COM
mittee confirmed the report of the action
by the heads OF departments. One PROM
inent leader said that it would be utterly
impossible for work to be resumed with
out the cooperation of the foremeD, as
no men could be found to take
their places. even If non-union steel
workers were obtained. He also said
that there was little probability of any
number of the latter being induced to
come to Homestead. He said that not
boarding house OF hotel in town would
feed these men, and skilled mechanics
cannot be induced to live in tents OF
shanties inside of the mill. His con-
clusion was that the only alternative left
to the Carnegie people was settlement
with their old men.
The leaders of the strikers were very
indignant over the publication of an in
terview with one of their number which
stated that the Homestead men did not
want the employees of Carnegie's twenty
third and Twenty-ninth street mills at
Pittsburg to go out.
Their position, they said, was Just the
reverse of this. They wanted every em-
ploye of a mill in which Carnegie was In
terested to quit work and TO remain out
until the trouble at Homestead was set-
tied in way satisfactory TO the ANAL
gamated Association.