St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-18
TO Stand by the Amalgamated
Association to the Bit
ter End.
They Say They Are Not Pau
pers, or DrunkardS or
Tranps,
Bat American Citizens Who
Own Their Homes and Pay
Their Taxes.
Sabbath Quiet Among the
Troops - Sermons Are
Preached to Them.


HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 17.-All is
quiet on the Alonongahela tonight.
Stories about men having been placed
in the mills, rumors about the desper-
ate purposes of the strikers and reports
about the preparations of the military
to quit the factories are eXtant, but the
fact remains that it has been most
quiet Sunday. Up to 6 o'clock this
evening no new men had been intro
duced through the Carnegie gates, and
although everything had been expected
for tonight, nothing has been done for
today. The new men are confidently
expected before the formal opening of
the works on Thursday, but the strike
leaders do not believe that any of them
will be introduced until after it is seen
how many applications for work have
been made by the old men. That some
of these will be made is quite certain.
Some of the old employees have already
interviewed the military about the pro-
lection which will be afforded to men
going to work, and while the number of
those asking the question will be very
small. the Carnegie company sees in it
a symptom of disintegration among the
locked -ou ut men. which they hail with
genuine relief. OF course, their visits
TO headquarters have been made Sc
cretly, as the great majority of the mem
are still strongly with the Amalgamated
association.
A Mass Meeting
was held at the rink this morning, at
which about 400 of the employees were
present, who represent the mechanical
department and the day laborers. These
men arc not members of the Amaiga-
mated association, but they have been
in sympathy with it. Some half dozen
speeches we're made as to the poster put
up by MIR. Frick inviting the old men
back to work, and. after some consid-
GRAFTON, the following resolution was
proposed and passed unanimously:
Whereas We, the employees of the me-
chanical departments and day laborers of the
Carnegie Steel works, of Homestead. in meet
ing assembled, do offer the following as our
views in regard to the labor troubles existing
al present.
Resolved, That we are i'll sympathy with
the Amalgamated association and pledge our
selves TO stand with them 10 the end
Resolved, That we consider it an injustice
to the mechanical department and day lab
orerS and an insult TO their manhood. to ask
them TO work under guard, as we believe in
this land of the free. all men should be free.
This means that the repair work,
which was to have begun tomorrow,
will not be undertaken by the Old men,
who will not go back to work, and that
the new men will have to be brought in
II the company proposes to reopen the
works Thursday next, as all the fur
naces are cold and much rebuilding will
have to be-done. 1t is simply matter
Of imposSibiiity to untangle all the
Contradictory Stories
which are being told about all these
new men. For instance, number of
negroes are expected from the West
Virginia and Alabama furnaces. A
draft OF eighty men is said to be coming
from Ohio. The advisory committee
has heard of efforts to enroll mechanics
in Chicago and st. Louis. supposed to be
for tee Carnegie company, but after all
the minors are sifted down there is no
truth to be found at the bottom of them,
and those correspondents who are trying
TO send out the real state of the case in
Homestead are forced TO depend upon
what they see with their own eyes. A
case in point is furnished by the rumor
started this morning that three boat
loads of non-unlOn men had been dis
embarked into the works. One gentle
man saw these men go into the mills,
and So reported, and yet the men are
not there. and did not go in as stated.
Some of the pilgrims are expected to-
night. but the chances seem to to he
that they will not come. At any rate,
the advisory committee is not particu-
larly Yigilant this evening. The patrols
are, OF course, continued, but Mr.. Shah
non fatty stated that he knew that DO
men would be brought in until Thurs
day. He said:
1--WE are not talking wildly when we
say that we believe we know exactly
what is to be the programme of the Car
negie company. Their whole effort is
directed towards
Bringing Back Old Men,
not to get new ones, and they will ex-
haust all their methods of persuasion
before they go off for the black Sheep
We know this. and we know that to win
this fight all we have to do is to keep
our lines firm and let the company do
what it will. They cannot make nickel
steel armor plates without us. They
cannot, except at greatly increased
expense, do any of the ordinary
work of the mills. This is not an idle
boast on our part. We have in the
Amalgamated association the skilled
steel workers of America. Ii they can
import labor they will have to be ex-
ceedingly smooth. | don't mind saying
that the advisory committee believes
that its patrols should be at the seq
board instead of at Homestead. OF the
locked-out men now here about six will
go TO work. The others will come TO US,
and we will take all the proper care of
them. 1t will be waiting fight, but, as
! told you yesterday, believe in all sim
cerity we can stand it for five years.
We are not paupers, nor drunkardS
nor tramps, but American citizens and
taxpayers. We can pay our debts and
have little surplus left. The rainy
day has come, but our umbrellas are all
up. think the Amalgamated associa-
tion will 90 through this struggle with
out asking dollar from the outside. A
great deal of help has been sent to us
by our friends who believe in the prin-
ciple we represent. and this we will use
to provide for the laborers and the
others vino are not members of our
body, but who are affected by this coll
flict. If outside help should cease we
can stiil care for them. In a word, we
are just in this position we aIe asking.
No Odds of Anybody.
but are making this fight on their own
resources. We want the sympathy of
our friends, and we court the enmlty OF
every man who is hostile to organized
labor. Help sent to US will be used for
the 2,0C0 men not members OF our aSS0-
citation idle on account of this differ
ence, but if the help were not sent we
would stlll charge ourselves with their
support and 20 forward"
Up in the caInil today q Sabbath still