The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-07-08
Impregnable as Gibraltar.


HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 2.-Five hum
dred scouts now guard the town
against the approach of would-be work.
ers, and the town is as impregnable as
Gibraltar. The picket lines extend to
the opposite side of the river. The men
doing guard duty, it is said, are armed
to the teeth. Each of the entrances to
the mill property is guarded by force
of fifty men. All office clerks, watch
men and superintendent of depart
ments are permitted to go and come
unmolested. None other, however,
dare to even attempt to enter within
the gates.
The sympathy of the citizens is with
the workmen. Yesterday the mer-
chants dubbed together and sent
cartload of tobacco and pipes. Furni-
ture has been donated to furnish their
headquarters and the electric light sup
ply companies are furnishing lights
and fixtures. Saloon keepers have been
cautioned as to the sale of intoxicants.
Yesterday the entire corps of servants
employed at Carnegie's hotel near the
steel works left the hotel in body, re.
fusing to serve the many strangers who
have recently appeared.
A Braddock telegram received at the
headquarters last night stated that 300
men had been hired at Braddock to GO
to Homestead and that they were to go
by way of Pittsburgh.
It is rumored that two boats are be-
ing loaded in lower Allegheny City
with cots for use of the Braddock men
when they get into Homestead. The
men say that a huge bonfire is certain
to occur if the attempt is made to land
them. Last night large calliope steam
whistle, to be used by the worlzmen as
a general alarm, was erected in town.
The Homestead Steel Workers to be Paid
In Full and Discharged.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July AIT 10 a. m.
yesterday notice was posted at the
entrance to the company's Office enjoin.
ing all employees from the highest to
the lowest that they would be paid off
in full to-day between the hours of
noon and o'clock. About 1000 men
in all will receive their money and also
notices of discharge. Barring the fact
that the crowd of workmen may be
noisy no demonstration is anticipated.
A member of the advisory board of
locked-out workmen said: "Mr. Frick's
statement that only 2S6 men were af-
feeted by the new scale is mistake.
Every man in the mill suffers by it,
and we can prove it. The general re-
ductions in all departments range from
s to 10 per cent. and in some as high as
40 per cent"
While it cannot be exactly estimated,
yet the loss to the Carnegie company
each day the mills are idle is quite
heavy, and amounts to thousands of
dollars. In case the firm fails to recede
from its stand, there will be great dam
ger of being unable to fill the govern
ment and Worlds fair contracts. The
company is under $500, 600 bond for
the completion of a large amount of
armor plate, and unless the old men are
taken back or new men secured there
is a probability of the government de.
manding forfeiture.
Little Prospect of an Adjustment at
Youngstown, o.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., July 2.-The iron
situation remains unchanged. There
is now little propects of an early ad-
justment of the differences existing be-
tween the manufacturers and the men.
A conference will be held between the
operators and conference committee
of the Amalgamated association next
week But their differences are so
great that it is believed nothing can be