The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-29
GIVING UP The FIGHT.
Strikers Leave Homestead in Squads
by Every Train.
O'DONNELL IS STILL MISSING.
snowden and streator Receive Pledges Of
support from military Men-o'Mara
Thinks the Ansrchistic Assassins Haye
been Rounded up Successfully.
ESPECIAL TO THE NEws.i

HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 29-Another
move was made in this city against the
striking workmen late yesterday after
noon. Burgess McLuckie, Hugh Ross
and Elmer Bailie were told warrants had
been issued on the charge of aggravated
riot.
They decided to surrender and were
subsequently admitted to bail with Sc
curities fixed at 900 EACH
Hugh O'Donnell was not in town all
day, aud no one knows where he is. He
h as no commission from the AmaIgamat-
ed Association or the Advisory Commit
tee. and the private business that has
taken him away so suddenly aud myster-
iously is causing the strikers uneasiness.
At the beginning of the strike resolu-
tion was passed by the advisory commit
tee that any man who left town without
permission would not be allowed to work
In the mills when the strike was over.
For three weeks the ranks were unbroken,
but then came discouragement, and many
of the strikers have left Homestead. Each
outgoing train now carries car full OF
them to other towns, where they will seek
work. Most OF them leave their families
here, but at least forty families have left
Homestead, never to return.
The enormous fund which, according to
their statement, was to support the mem
bers of the Association for year, IL neces-
sary, is u myth. They have some money,
il Is true, but this is divided among the
few hundred members of the Association
alone. and the 3, 900 mechanics aud labor
ers who gave up their places to help them
do not receive any Of 1t now.
The fifty members of the advisory com :
init tee manage to get along all right, and
IL they cannot make some terms with the
company for the settlement OF the strike
by which they themselves will be re-
employed, they can at least live for
several months In idleness. They hold
their secret meetings every night, but no
one has ever been able TO learn what they
do there except to discuss the situation.
III the company should succeed in filling
the places OF all these men II IL almost
impossible TO imagine what the result
will be. The strikers compose nearly the
entire population of the town. Home
stead is not n place where man who
loses one place can easily lind another. A
man who Is barred out Of employment IN
these mills must, IL he wants to work.
leave Homestead. Many of the strikers
own their small houses and gardens here:
IL they should be compelled TO move all
these would have to be sold TO the frst
buyer, and many years savings would be
lost.
Yesterday reporter went through the
Carnegie works aud found that all the
mills excepting the converting mill and
three others that are undergoing repairs
were running one single shift. That Is,
the men work only by day.
The furnace men keep the hres going
through the night.
There are three mills in which rails and
the common forms of iron are made which
the company has abandoned TO carpenters
and bricklaycrs for the present. In the
open hearta mill the reporter found six
furnaces fired.
One Of them was making s,eel and two
skilled workmen were superintending the
process. Assistant Superintendent Woods
handed the reporter pair or goggles.
Through these he could peer into the fur
mace where the molten metal spluttered.
Near this furnace stood red hot $500
pound steel ingot, one Of two which had
just been run out.
In this mill, which was next visited, the
enormous rollers were laundering round
and round over the huge steel slab which
passed back ana forth with clock-like
regularity. The men who stood around,
begrinled and persprlng, seemed 70 be
thoroughly familiar with their work.
Mr.. Woods said "These men are .ex-
perienced and skillful workmen aud they