The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-14
CONGRESS INVESTIGATING.
The Committee COntinue Their Examination
Of Witnesses

ms committee continue 1Htlr EAaWiBdtlOu
of Witnesses.
PITTsBuRG. July 13.-The congressional
committee continued the Homestead in-
vesligation this morning with further ex-
animation OF Prick, of the Carnegie com
pany.
He detailed the arrangement with tle
Pinkertons to furnish guards for the
Homestead property, and said the arms
were consigned to the Union Supply com
pany, who delivered them to Captain
Rogers of the Pinkertons. Prick was not
sure. but supposed he had something TO do
with the furnishing Of arms, and could not
be brought to answer more definitely. He
believed the Pinkertons were advised that
arms would be needed, but arms we're not
stipulated in the employment OF guards
Prick said the wages paid at Homestead
were higher than at any other place.
Sheriff McCleary detailed the attempted
efforts TO secure posse He was notified
the night the Pinkertons went up and he
tried 10 persuade them not 10 send them US
he feared trouble. The sheriff said he had
not authorized Colonel Gray to deputize
the Pinkertons. He did not go to Home
stead on the day Of the trouble because it
was useless.
Captain Houtner, Of the committee, de-
clareNthat the scale of wages paid as ex
planned by Frick was the mig hest wages he
ever heard Of.
In reply to Boutner he said he felt sure
the matter could have been settled if the
inference had been carried on. The OBJ
lection to the termination of the scale in
January was that past experience shows
when winter comes on and the scale ex-
pires, the manufacturers take advantage
of the cold weather TO sterve the men into
submission. Roberts said he was in favor
of compulsory arbitration. The witness
further stated that during the scale con-
ference Abbott, the former chairman OF
Carnegie said: THE quotations on steel
billets were q lower than the market price
and insisted the scale should be arranged
on that basis.n
They had not offered to arbltrate until
after the trouble. He could not say
whether or not the association was willing
to arbitrate. Personally, he was in favor
Of the law of arbitration.
OiDonnell was the next witness. He
said when the strike was ordered the
lodges held q joint meeting and appointed
an advisory committee TO have men placed
around the fence 10 keep out irresponsible
people The men were instructed TO use
only moral suasion, and were not instruct
ed to keep anyone out OF the mill. The
witness repeated Inc story OF the Dattle and
the efforts 10 prevent firing by the
crowd on shore His wages were sl44 per
month, eight hours, under the old schedule
Replying TO a question as TO why laboring
men hate the Pinkertons he said the chief
objection to them was that it was feared
that they would bring non-union men.
An error in the statement Of wages paid
during May was made in last nights inves-
tigation. The amount, S2O.25, should have
been for the l19lnch mill, and not for The
whole Carnegie property, as indicated in
the dispatch.
Deputy Sheriff Clusev then took the
stand and told story of how the deputies
had been driven out by the strikers.
President Wehe was the first witness
on the side of labor. The, reductions, he
said, proposed in most Of the departments
the men object to, because they did not
think them necessary. The reduc-
tions would average IS per cent. as
near os he could estimate. The
labor cost of a ton of steel at Home
stead was $l55. In reply to Judge Taylor
as to why the men thought they had q
right TO take possession OF the mill, Weihe
said there may be some who think so, but
they are not in the society. Judge Taylor
expressed establishment, and said there
seemed to be some queer ideas Of rights Of
property among the workingmen.