Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-07-13
IN CONGRESS-.
The Affair at Homestead Receives
Attention.
The prssidcnt Il Greatly Concerned Over
the Unfortunate >ituation-So Appeal
Has ns Yet Been Made to the
United states for Troops.


WASHINGTON, July THE first Of
fetal recognition in congress of the
trouble ut the Homestead. Pa. mills
appeared Wednesday, when Represent
alive Caminctti introduced resolution
calling for the appointment of n select
committee To investige them. Proceed
ing the resolution is long preamble,
reciting in effect that the republican
party has contended that one of the
main purposes of it's tariff lcpisla-
ton was the protection of Amer
lean labor. and the increase of
pay to the wage-carners in pro-
tected industries; that, contrary there
To. industries protected by such legisla-
ton bave, in many instances, instead
of increasing the pay of wage-worlxers,
actually materially reduced them: that
the Homestead mills, controlled by A.
Carnegie and his associates, operating in
an industry which has received the
fostering care of said legislation TO
such an extent as to typify it as an
example of the result thereof, from
whatever standpoint il is viewed,
has promulgated an order reducing
wages of employees ranging To an
extent, it is alleged, of from 20 To 90
per cent; that contrary to the position
assumed by said party that the protec-
ton so afforded regulates the price of
labor. it is stated by IL. c. FriclS. MANA
ger OF said mills, that eve made the
scale to suit trade and mechanical con-
ditions, and gave no thought to the po-
itical cause or effect, nor the tariff"
that following this announcement the
In s..It
duction. and n strike is at hand. and il il
asserted in the public prints that armed
men, boats carrying guns, n stoclxad...
having attached thereto pipes enabling
hot water and steam TO be turned on at
moments notice, and surmountcd
with wires capable of being charged
with electricity, all these supplemented
with strong search lights have been re-
sorted to by said company to enable il
To enforce its reduced scale of wages.
thus inaugurating n condition of feudal
despotism. The resolution thereupon
calls for the appointment of II select
committee of five members to inv.sti-
gate and report on the causes OF this
strike, the conditions producing the
same and the effect of such legislation
on wages and labor.
The resolution was referred TO tho
committee on rules.
The house committee appointed t. in
vestigate the Pinl<ertons will hold its
first meeting on Friday. The president
has received frequent press bulletins
during the day from Pittsburgh about
the riot He is seriously concerned Mt
the grave turn which the situation has
assumed. Up to the time of leaving
Washington Wednesday afternoon he
had not been officially advised OF the
riot by any of the state authorities.
Gen. Schotield said Wednesday after
noon that no appeal had been made to
the military authorities To aid in sun
pressing the riots at Homestead, and he
did not think il would be necessary.
lie said that the state military of Penn
sylvania was most efficient organiza-
ton, and that it would be an easy mat
ter To concentrate at least 5000 thor
oughly reliable AID well disciplined
state troops at Pittsburgh or at any
other given point at short notice. He
said that the government could not in
terfere in the matter unless the govern
ment of the state should inform the
president that the case was beyond the
control of the state and municipal au- |
thorites.
lie explained that such case arose
during the Pennsylvania railroad riots |
of 1877, when the state militia was un-
able to cope with the rioters, and that |
1t became necessary to invoke the aid of |
federal troops
General Schofeld said he did not
think the present trouble would reach |
the magnitude of the riots Ct 1877. but,
even II they did, it is not likely that tho |
government -Mnuld he cnllnd ,,nu..