Omaha daily bee., 1892-07-08

Pittsburg has, this competition would not
nave been so ruinuus nor would it have com.
peeled employers TO either night or sink.
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PEELED employers TO either night or sink.
strongest OF All Here.
At Homestead TIE labor sentiment has
reached the zenith of perfection, according
10 that creed. Here no ono dare question
the right OF the strikers to hold the mills
against the entrance of guards workers or
anyone inimical to their interests. Here is a
case in point
In the barracks Mt Homestead early tins
moruing, where the pinkartOu men were
imprisoned before being sent to PITTS burg,
Hugh O'DOnuell, tho acknowledged leader of
the strikers, asserted:
/ six Piukerton men are dead. And no one
knows how many nre in the river"
a correspondent who knew how many of
these men were dead asked hlm where the
slN dead were. Being unable TO answer he
became enraged aud with an oath denounced
the man who had the tcmerity to question
his assertion. The denunciution was uttered
before crowd of hls followers and had he
said the word the innocent Offender would
have been as roughly handled as were tho
piEkerton mon.
Another case was whore plttsburg re-
porter in AN article quoted O'Dohncd
Yesterday he met the reporter on the stage
OF the cupolaS of the mills, and o. Donnell
TOOK him roughly to task for mentioning his
name anu remarked: 81 could throw you in
that cupola If wanted to-couldu't |, boysW
Ihey were all standing in an instant, and
IN chorus replied, "You bet you could,n aud
one OF the men drew pistol from his pocket
TO emphasize the assertion.
Alarmed in pIttSburg.
hlle the sentiment in Homestead is as
has been described, it modified in the case of
the workers in the city mills. But as
uemohstrated yesterday, if Homestead
needed reinforcements an army of
5OOO men, most of them armed,
could be assembled in few hours. Yester-
uay a false report was spread about the south
SIDE OF this city, which is a manufacturing
district, that more men were needed in
Homestead in short time nearly 1000 men
mad gone to the scene OF carnage
Under all these circumstances the manu-
1octurers have finally been forced to a sense
OF realization that they must run their own
business, and unless the workers commence
TO realize that they intend to do so it need
create no surprise If deeds similar to those
enacted at Homestead Yesterday transpir in
and about this city.
Not safe to Talk
Several manufacturers engaged in making
other materials than iron or steel We're
called upon today by "a correspondent for
lnE BEE, with view OF securing their
opinions uDon the present labor situation.
no one man visited would eX press an opinion
ior publication. They were frank enough
to say:
First: That being in other lines of in
dustry than making iron or steel they were
not practical in those lines ana were not
therefore competent to express an opinion
on the relative merits of existing trout bles
between employer and employees.
Second: That were they to express an
opinion as to the merits of the case, such
oplnlonS would arouse the ire of their own
men ana something unpleasant might re-
suit.
1t was understood that so deep was the
sympathy of workers in all Industrial
branches for the men at Homestead that it is
not safe to make public expressions.