The Portland daily press., 1892-07-12
Homestead Has Planned a
Brotherly Greeting
TO THE ARMY WHICH is
THERE TODAY.
Runer Says the Carnegie Company
Will Cause Leaders to be Arrested

IF THIS is so, THE OLIVE BRANCH
MAY BE FORGOTTEN.
The Remarkable Peace Meeting and Its
| Action-It was Unanimously Voted That
Any Man Who Should Insult the Mill
| tary Should be Ducked in the River
Special Police We're Appointed for
This Purpose-The war-Like Orders to
the Military.
HOMESTEAD, PA.-The white wings of
peace are lowering over Homestead to-
| night There is not an unpleasant indi-
cation to mar the serenity of the iron re-
gion. The militia will be received with
open arms by the mill workers. The
special police one hundred strong, Sc
lected from the ranks of the strikers. will
see that no indignity offered the uniform
ed representatives of the State by any in
judicious or hot-headed workmen. The
efficacy of this police was demonstrated
within half an hour after the adjourn
ment of the mass meeting this afternoon
by the prompt arrest and escort to the
lock mp of an Incorporate striker, who
questioned the wisdom of receiving the
militia as friends and brothers. The
power of organization was never better
exemplified than in the graceful unanim-
ity with which the iron workers accepted
the suggestions of their leaders andsdeei-
friends and not as foes. To all but the
pessimist, it is irresistible that the crisis
is passed and that Homestead will know
hostilities no moreso long as the military
are on the ground and there is no attempt
to smuggle Pinkertons into the works.
Most of the people have concluded that
Pinkertons are not likely to provoke fur
ther bloodshed by attempting to occupy
the works. The strikers regard the ad-
vent of the troops as the surest indica-
ton that the,
Private Militia of Capital.
Will invade Homestead no more. Much
of the success of today's meeting was
due to the belief that the state militia
was ordered to Homestead as much to
prevent the bloodshed that visit of the
Pinkertons would provoke as to quiet
the present disorder in the iron region.
The mass meeting this afternoon was
most significant and it's developments
were awaited with the utmost interest
by the citizens on the outside. The
meeting was attended by about 5000 peo-
pie and in this number was about every
one of the men who fought the Pinker-
tons in the bloody battle of last week.
The meeting was called to order by
Hugh O'Donnell who, after stating that
Burgess McLuckie would preside, invited
the representatives of the press to the
| platform. ''They are the people,"
said he, ''who have created public
| sympathy for us all over the United
States. They have been our friends"
[Applause.]
assuming the chair, was most significant.
Although Burgess of Homestead he is
| one of the most prominent leaders of
the strikers and shares with Hugh o.
Donnell great influence over the work.
| ingmen. 1.-The object of this meeting"
said he, lis to take suitable action for
| the reception to our friends, the military,
who will arrive here in a day or two.
The general impression is abroad that
the military are dangerous people. This
is mistake. We want every man, wo-
man and child in this town to
Welcome the Military With Open Arms.
I pledge you my Judgment that this is
one of the best steps that could possibly
have been taken for our people, this
calling out of the military. I think Gov.
Pattison is acting wisely and judiciously.
| He understands our cause and under
stands our position and so does the en-
/ tire civilized world. He is a just man
and man who will not cater to monopo-
ly, a man who will not permit the troops
of this state, the servants of the people,
the defenders of the dignity of this com
momwealth, which is ours and as near
and dear to us as to any human being
that ever God let breathe-I say, Robert
Z. Pattison will never permit an outrage
perpetrated upon people such as the
| people of Homestead and this surround
ing community. [Great applause
ut is also an evident fact that the I'M
washed horde of Pinkerton people are
again mobilizing their forces. The
governor does not want any bloodshed
here. He knows by your action of the
past if that unelean horde strike our
shores, there must be bloodshed ZAP
plause.] The governor knows that these
unwashed hordes are mobilizing again.
1t is the most desperate blow ever struck
to the Pinkertons since the organization
of that institution. [Applause and
voices, "We will give them another."(
He does not want us to be slaughtered
or receive further injury at the hands of
that
Illegal, Unlawful. Dirty, Shaking Institu-
tion.