Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
The Bessemer Converter at
Homestead Now Running
on Single Turn.
FIRED AT THE UNION MEN
Who Pursued One of the Workers
Who Took Their Places.
A TIMER HELD UP BY MAIDENS.
Chairman Frick Expected to Be ct His
Cffice This Morning.
THE FIRM is SLNGUINE OF SUCCESS

The feature of yesterday ar Homestead
was the starting of the new Bessemer con
verting mill on single turn and successfully
Shortly after 1 o'clock Manager Potte
and number of other Carnegie Compan,
officials assembled at the new building.
turn of men was singled out and brough
into the works. The new and ponderou
machinery was explained in every detail
Each man was shown what he had to do
and they all proved to be apt pupils.
This mill was just completed short time
ago, and until yesterday had never beer
operated. 1t has one of the department,
| that the strikers said could not be success
fully run.
The first heat was started shortly after
o'clock and by 4:3O three heats of 12 toni
each had been run. The ingots were pro
nounced very good. The machinery wa,
run as smoothly as though the men WHIT
operated it had spent a lifetime in the study
of its operation.
Superintendent Potter Makes q Statement.
As the first heat was started Manager
Potter remarked, ''Here is a mill that 9
union man has never worked in and be
never will"
Tonight the department is to be put on
double turn.
Early this morning a locked-out man
Hunter, accompanied by another forme,
employe of the mill, who was unknown,
entered the works at Munhall. Their &C.
tions were considered peculiar by the
watchmen and they started in pursuit of the
two men. A chase followed. In the race
Hunter fell into hole and broke his leg.
His companion escaped.
Hunter was taken into the mill hospital
and cared for until yesterday morning. He
was then brought into the West Penn
Hospital, where ne is now.
1t was said yesterday that Hunter and
his companion were the men sent into the
mill to bring the 900 non-union men out, who
were to leave the works in a body yester-
day morning. Early in the morning sew
eral hundred of the locked-out men were
scattered along Eighth avenue waiting for
the arrival of the deserters. The crowd
waited until after dinner, but the procession
did not appear.
Giving the Passengers Benison.
Considerable excitement was caused
across the river at the Salt Works yesterday
afternoon. 1t is customary for crowd of
Homesteaders-men and women-to congre-
gate at the ferry on the Homestead side. They
have learned that the ferry is used quite
extensively by the non-union men. When
one of the new men leaves the mill and
starts across the river the air resounds with
unpleasant cries of .'scab" and 'tblackleg."
After the men have start of IL or Is feet
they are often followed in skiffs by parties
of locked-out men.
Yesterday afternoon a colored man left
the works and started across the Monouga-
hely. He had left the wharf some little
distance when a crowd of the Homesteaders
jumped into skiffs and pursued
him. He reached the other side
first. When he landed he started
on a run down along the bank and out onto
a coal tipple. At this point a number of
soldiers were in swimming. A sergeant of
the Fifteenth Regiment had'just come out
of the water as the race from the boats be-
gan. Grasping his gun he fired at the ap-
preaching men. The shot was a little low
and missed the pursuers It served to
change their course, however, for they beat
a hasty retreat The colored mar was 80
badly scared that he started in the same
direction his assailants had fled.
Held Up by Two Maidens
A little later in the day timer came
into Homestead. He said he was looking
for work in some of the tin shops of the
town. His story, although doubtlessly true,
did not 60. He, too, was chased over the
waters, and when found by the deputy
sheriffs he was corralled in a clump of
bushes, with two fair girls guarding him.
The man was so badly scared he could not
speak. The deputies chased the girls away
and took the fellow over to the provost
guards headquarters. There he again told
the same story he did when
restored to bis selfpossession. the timer
grew very mad over his treatment and for
spite went up to the mills and secured work.
After these two outbreaks Company of
the Fifteenth Regiment was ordered out
1t formed in a skirmish line and searched
the bushes for quite a distance up and down
the river None of the locked-out men
could DE found. The guard force will be
increased at this point and the practice of
chasing non-union men broken up.
The Advisory Board deny that they
waited on the business men of Home
stead and requested them not to
sell to non-union men. eSuch a
one of the members last night, .sbut
it was not authorized by the Advisory
Board.
The Move Would Be Absurd,
cit would be an absurd movement to
make. In such matters it is the merchants
business to use his own discretion. There
are some Homestead men who have taken
upon themselves to make this request of
the business men. but whoever they are
they had not the power to act.
David Lynch, one of the prominent men,
bers of the Homestead Advisory Board.
attended the mass meeting of the Lawrence
vile strikers yesterday afternoon. 'They |
are just as firm as ever" he said last night. |
they will win the battle The |
men the company are running
into the Upper and Lower mills are like the |
fellows they are bringing to Homestead.
They will never be able to run the mill. |
The company know this and only bring
them as bluff. 1t expects to win BY q |
break in our ranks, not by the importation |
Of new men. Its hopes will be forlorn ones
If there was ever thing which strength
ened the locked-out men it was the promise
of aid from the Federation of Labor.
Men strengthened by Promise Of Aid.
'That organization will at once levy q 10
per cent assessment on its many thousand
members. Soon money will be pouring into
Homestead and no man need want because
ne has not the price to buy"
There were but few new men brought
INTO the mills yesterday. A number of
hose here LETT yesterday afternoon to 20
lown to Pittsburg. They will work in the
mills One of the recruits
was young man whose family
lame is we'll known in Western Pennsyi-
Iania in politics and professional circles.
His father was one Of the aplest jurists