Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-06
CHILDREN KEPT AT HOME
Because Their Teachers Are Daugh-
tiers of a Eon-Union Man.
PRESIDENT sARvER'S POSITION.
One Hundred Laborers Return to Work in
the Carnegie Mill.
CONSTABLE HAS A ROUGH EXPERIENCE

developed. A number of the children will
be kept away from school this morning be-
cause two of the teachers are daughters of
IN Amalgamsted Association man who
wearied of the strike and returned to work.
The teachers are Misses Mae and Anna
Bailey, daughters of William F. Bailey,
,hief engineer of the Carnegie milla They
are emphatic in saying they will hold their
positions to the last The locked-out par
ents of the school children are just as firm
in insisting upon the two teachers resigning.
The teachers are backed by the law and
bv their vigorous old father. The locked
out men have the President of the Board
of directors and one director with them.
These two are the only members of the
board who are locked-out men. a petition
has been in circulation during the last two
weeks and has been quito generally signed.
By this petition all children who are taught
bv the Misses Bailey will be kept at home,
and the Law and Order Society of Allie
gheny county will have an opportunity of
coming forward to insist upon children's
education. In case the children are COM
PEELED to go to school the lives of the
teachers will be made rather hard to bear,
and by this method the teachers are ex-
pected to yield
The Directors Ho d a Meeting
The school directors held a Meeting in
the Second ward school building last night
but the strike question did not come up,
according to President George W. Sarver.
The president said he apprehended no
trouble and did not think that the matter
would be carried to the excess of tantaliz-
ing the teachers at any rate.
''Miss Mae Bailey is our training
teacher" continued the President, "and of
course the matter will not reach her Miss
Anna Bailey teaches the fifth grade pupils
in the Third ward school, and it is in her
room, if anywhere, that the difficulty will
occur / have heard of these petitions but
do not think the matter will prove as
serious as the talk seems to warrant"
"What will be the result if the fifth
grade pupils refuse to come to school ?''
"We shall make an effort to find another
room for the teacher, but if none can be
found she will be suspended until we do.
The matter has not been brought to the at
tention Of the board in any official way, but
all / knew of the matter is what I have
been told have not seen the petition,
but 1 understand it has been circulated.
donot think there will be any trouble and
sincerely hope there will not"
He Stood Enough.
Mr.. Bailey was seen at his home opposite
the Carnegie mills. He said he had been
assured by someone in authority, whom he
would not name, who had promised to see
H. 1a1i
they had better not" continued the en-
gineer with q threatening shake of his head.
81 have stood just about enough of this
sort OF thing. Last Saturday night gang
collected across the street and began hoot-
ing my house There were ladies upon nv
porch or would have shot at them, and
want to say right here that if it doesn't 4
stop there will be trouble in a certain |
quarter. 49,,
The threatened break in the ranks of the |
strikers occurred yesterday, and upwards of |
100 men returned to work. The majority |
were laborers of the foreign element, but |
number were formerly employed in the me- |
chanical department and returned to their |
old positions
About o'clock yesterday morning q |
large body of Slavs and Huns passed up the |
Munhall road and a short time later the |
skilled werkmen followed and did not re-
turn. This report was authenticated bv tine
sentinels on duty about the mills, who in
formed Colonel Meckling, the Provost Mar
shal, that the men quietly passed their
posts at that hour and nothing more vas
seen of them.
The Rrpors Run Down.
A circuit of the posts was made and from
the accounts of all the sentinels inter-
viewed, the men were not seen beyond the
mill gates, while they positively were seen
going in that direction.
There was little if any talk about the
matter among the locked-out men beyond a
vigorous refutation of the report None of
the latter admit that more than fifteen
strikers returned to work and denounce
the report as canard.
Superintendent Potter said some of the
strikers had returned, but did not specify
the number. There seems but little doubt
of the truth of the report
A man was seriously injured in the Con-
verting mill by being caught in the elevator
shafting. Late Sunday night while the
men were erecting the furnaces an explo-
sion occurred in the 119-inch plate mill and
one of the men was seriously injured and
four others slightly. The names of none of |
the wounded men could be ascertained.