The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-17
PREPARING TO RESUME
WoRK IN the CARSEGIE NILS.
What is Likely TO Become Of the Notices
Sent Out Offering the Workmen
Their Old Positions.

HOMESTEAD, July 1G.-The Carnegie Com
pany intends TO begin the work of repairing
It's mills here on Monday next preparatory
to starting anew on the work left unfinished
by the lockout
The statement was made this morning
that no less than 100 men were working in
the Carnegie mills. a representative of the
the United Press succeeded in getting
within the structure and found nothing 10
prevent a tour through every department
of the plant, and as a result can state posi-
lively that. all told. not moro than from
fifteen 10 twenty men are at work to-day.
Apropos of the notices sent 10 workmen
Of the mechanical departments Of the Car
negie works Offering them their old posi-
tions, Hugh ODonnell to-day pointed out
10 a United Press reporter as an instance
OF the determination of the Homestead men
IN fighting their battles the fact that
during the strike Of 1889 similar notices,
not quite so cOnciliatOry in character,
were sent 20 the workmen here. and that
nearly all of them were either destroyed or
turned over o. the leaders. Accompanying
these notices were copies Of an agreement
which each man was requested TO sign,
making concessions 10 the striking work
men. but not cOnceding all that they asked.
Mr. ODonnell showed the reporter great
bundle OF these papers. which had been
turned over 20 the leaders by the men re-
ceIying them lie insists that the notices
sent out to-day will meet Il similar fate.
The reception by tue men of the mechan-
icai department of An offer 0y the COM
psny TO allow them TO return % their old
positions on Monday next and the posted
notices that applications for employment
would be received from the old men. cre-
ated a great deal of comment IN Homestead.
Nearly everybody agrees that 10 IS q most
diplomatic move on the part of the Carnegie
Company. and will have some effect on the
men. The leaders claim that the workers
ia al departments OF the mill are too loyal
10 the cause to return 10 work IN the pres
ent circumstances. The greatest influence
that will bear against the result hoped Tor
by the company is the presence Of military
at the works
Yesterday the civil engineers and outside
men showed their dislike 30 this sort Of pro
lection By refusing 10 do duty while the
military occupied the plant. and the boss
mechanics and iOremen OF the rmOr-pate
shop who did not 90 out follow the example
of the outside force. basing their decision
in this connection on the same ground.
These notices mean nothing said Hugh
O'DOnnell to-day. when a United Press re-
porter asked him about them. similar
notices have been received and the men
laughed at them
WILL NEVER GIVE IN.
This fight has just commenced. Our
men will never give IN after SO short a strug-
gle. The strike of 50 occurred IN dead
winter, and though men were impOrtuned
10 return to work they refused 10 do go.
Men who were obliged TO tie rags about
their feet because they did not have foot
gear were quite as firm in their determina-
tiOn o. stay out as we're those better pro-
yided. The Carnegie Company cannot
start these mills with any other workers
than those right here in Homestead" "
Other leaders expressed the same senti-
ments. Union men from Scranton and
other Pennsylvania towns arriN ed in town
to-day and informed the advisory commit
tee that Superintendent Potter had agents
throughout the State impOrtunlng men TO
work IN the Homestead mills. According
10 the statements Superintendent POtters
agents have not been successful. At City
Farms Station, where nOn-uniOn men
are expected 10 arrive, about fifty
strikers gathered and watched each train
that passed. There was nothing in the talk
or actions that could be interpreted as
hostile to the military The rifles of the
troops on guard were loaded to-day for the
first time since the military took possession
of the town. This is merely precaution-
ary measure, done 10 impress the strikers
that the troops mean business. The guard
of soldiers inside the mill has been in |
creased. Another foreman in the Carnegie
mills quit work to-day and gladdened the
hearts of the strikers by appearing among
them. lie was an old employe of the COM
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