The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-07

Is running in a desultory way. Beaver
Fails Is still closed down. Homestead
has about 1900 men. and mechanics and
repairmen are at work at Duquesue Sec
retary Loveioy says the firm expects to
start the Duquesne mill Monday or
tuesday with from 800 to GOO
men. Edward Burke, charged bv
Lovejoy with riot and murder. was held
in Sl0,0 bail this afternoon. Five of the
men arrested at Duquesne yesterday for
riot were released on bail this afternoon.
FRED Irimor, Pinkerton, arrested on a
counter-charge of murder, preferred by
the Amalgamated Association, was re-
leased on his own recognizance.
WASHINGTON CITY. Aug. Coates. chair
man of the subcommittee of the House.
which has been investigating the labor
troubles nj Homestead and the connection
OF PInkerton detectives Herewith, submit
ted report TO the COMMITTEES, which was
not agreed to. No member questioned its
correctness, but the Republican members
would not assent TO what was said upon
the tariff. and a majority of the Demo-
cratic members of the committee thought
1t impositic TO make any report until the
entire investigation was completed, which
could not be done before the second ses-
ment of the report was made until next
winter. The report prepared by Oates
says the Pinkertons who surrendered were
brutality and outrageously treated, princi-
pally by women and BOYS, and Oates is
10th 10 believe any of these women were
native Americans. He says the indigni-
ties to which the men were subjected was
a disgrace to civilization.
Oates asked yyhpthar frp,
was justified in equity and good conscience
IN proposing the reduction in wages? an
swer, he says. that Frick declined to state
the cost per ton of Bessemer steel billets
and the labor cost. The men were paid
satisfactory wages, but the work much
abbreyiates the natural period of life
and should be well paid for.
lie thinks the company should
have some of the benefits and
profits resulting from the use of the im-
proved machinery. He condemns the
Mckinley law for failure TO benefit Ameri-
can workmen, and says the promises made
to operatives have been disappointing.
Had Frick stated the bottom facts to the
committee they might have agreed that tho
proposition to reduce wages was iustifi-
able, but they took issue with him. their
conclusion being that the tariff did not
cause decline in prices. Oates
finds further that the conduct of the COM
pany toward its employees was kind in
many respects. 1t loaned them money at
low rates of interest 10 build homes and
never foreclosed mortgages; but in wage
negotiations the officers did not exercise
patience, and Frick seems to have been too
stern, brusque and autocratic.
Oates is persuaded that if Frick had ap-
pealed TO the reason of his employees and
shown them the state of the companv's
affairs reduction might have been made
and no trouble followed. The Pennsyl-
vania law contains nothing to
prevent Frick from employing Pinker-
ton men as watchmen at Homestead,
but under the circumstances he should not
have done so. He made overtures to the
Pinkertons before the negotiations with
the men were interrupted, and did not ap-
peal to the county or state authorities in
the first instance for protection. Oates as
serts that Sheriff McCleary is very in
efficient officer, but says that had Frick
aided him and joined In his appeal to the
governor, instead of employing Pinker-
tons, the state would have furnished
sufficient force to have protected the prop
erty. Oates condemns as unlawful the
ACtS VI tHc III turning away the
sheriff; says it was the purpose of
the Amalgamated Association to pre-
vent the employment of non
union men, and declares that no
organization has a right to enforce It's
wishes by rong-handed defiance of law.
The men had no legal right to resist the
coming of the Pinkertons and are answer
able to Pennsylvania courts. In conclu-
sion, Oates finds that congress has no
power over the questions involved
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 6.-The national con-
vention of the Brotherhood of Painters
and Decorators today passed bitter resolu-
tions denouncing the Carnegie company
and the Pinkertons.
Sr. PAUL, Aug. 6.-The international
convention of iron molders this morning
adopted resolutions denouncing the Pink
erton system. condemning the Carnegie
Steel Company, and sympathizing with
the Homestead strikers. The govern mens
has been called on to see justice done.
The militia is denounced as always arrayed
on the side of capita against labor The
molders were directed not TO connect
themselves with any military organiza-