, 1892-07-14
MARTIAL LAW
Has Been Declared in the City of
Homestead.

The strikers do not Like it-Arrests
by the soldiers strike in the
Carnegie Works Elsewhere be-
cause of the Homestead trouble.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 14-While martial
law has not been officially declared in this
borough, it has taken place to an practical
purposes. This result was the illegal ar
rest by special policemen yesterday. This
morning two additional companies Of
troops with twenty rounds of ball cartridges
and fixed bayonets were detailed to patrol
the town. They were instructed in case of
arrest by the police for any manifest breach
of peace, drunkenness or the like, they
were not to interfere, but in all other cases
they are to take both prisoner and police
man before the provost marshall and if the
arrest is illegal, the policeman will be pun
ished. General Snowdenputs itenphomis-
tically by saying the military viii cooper
ate with the civil authorities in preventing
illegal arrests and somewhat more the GER
tain preservation of peace. It was reported
this morning that the town was officially
declared under martial law and the strikers
~
as they thought 1t presaged an Immediate
attempt to turn in non-union men. 1t is
now learned the locked out men are not en-
tirely pleased with the action of the Carne-
gle men in other mills are threatening to
strike unless a conference was granted the
Homestead men, as they believe the others
can do them more good in case of long
struggle in remaining at work and helping
them financially.
BIG STRIKE.
PITsBURG, July 14.-The employees in
Carnegie's upper and lower union mills of
this city struck at noon and the gas was
turned off in the furnaces. By 3 o'clock
this afternoon the men in all the depart
ments will be out and the mills shut
down. The men struck because the COM
panY refused to confer again with the
from the Beaver Point plant, but the men
will probably strike there too.
THE INQUIRY.
The congressional inquiry into the
Homestead trouble was completed today
so far as this city is concerned. TOday's
evidence ELECTED little that was new. Man
ager Frick declared the company asked for
a reduction of wages because the reduction
in the price of blooms, billets and slabs
caused the company to lose money on all
the output. The average cost in this
country Of producing steel billets is S14 per
ton, exclusive of interest on the invest
ment. He declined to say what the cost
was at Homestead, Frick said the nc
Kinley bill had nothing to do with the
proposed reduction of wages. The lower
price of the product was the result of over
production. 1t is stated the committee will
make a report of a character to
help the passage of a compulsory arDitre.
ton law and ant-Pinkerton nn aesure.
Both are now before congress. At the con-
clusion of todays investigation, Chairman
Oates announced that the labor branch of
the inquiry concerned was concluded, but
that the Pinkerton system will probably be
taken up elsewhere. The committee will
leave for Washington this evening and
will submit its report to congress early in
the week.
FOUR HUNDRED TO ARRIVE.
It is announced at 2:3O this afternoon
that a special train with 400 non-union
men will arrive within an hour. The strik-
ers say no attempt to prevent their entry