Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23
Advisory Com mittee's Statement.


HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 23.-The adj
visory committee on the Homestead
lockout has prepared statement OF its
position, in which the committee signi-
fies its recognition of law and other
peaceful means as the only elements
that should have part III the settlement
of the present trouble, and pledges itself
and the worlmen of Homestead to re-
frain from violence and lawlessness.
The whole text of the statement IS as
follows:
The most evident characteristic of our
time and country is the phenomenon of in
dustrial Capitalization, which is putting
the control of each of our great national
industries into the hands of one or lew
men and giving these men an enormous
and despotic power over the lives ana the
fortunes of their employees and subordl-
nates-the great mass of the peoples
power which evisCerates our natlohal CON
stituton and our common law, and direct
" antagonizes-the spirit of universal MS
tory in its worldwide struggle after lawful
! liberty-a power which, though expressed
| in terms of current speech MS 1.-THE right OF
employers to manage their business to SUIT
| themselves is causing to mean in effect,
i nothing less IMAM TlShb tb huiiSS uLlS
| country to suit themselves.
The employees of the mill of Messrs. Car
/ negic, Phipps & Company, of Homestead,
Pa, have built there town with its
| homes. its schools and its churches; have
| for many years been faithful co-workers IN
the business of the mill; have invested
! thousands of dollars Of their savings in the
mill with the expectation of spending their
-. Nd of
mill during the period of their efficiency.
In addition to the ordinary gifts ard ad-
vantages of our government, the national
legislature has seen fit to specially foster
and protect by public taxation the industry
of their mills and the state of Pennsyl
yania is today guarding it at great and eX'
traordiuary expense.
Therefore the committee desires to eX'
press to the public as its firm belief that
both the public and the employees aforesaid
have equitable rights in interests in the
said mill which can not be modified OF
diverted without due process of law; that
the employees have the right to continuous
employment in the said mill during ELI
cheney and good behavior without regarc
10 religious, political or economic opinions
and associations; that it is against public
! policy and subversive of the fundamental
principles of American liberty that whole
community of workers should be deniet
! employment or suffer any othel
social detriment on account of membership
In n church. political partv or
, trades union; that il is our duty as Amer
can citizens to resist by every legal AM
: ordinary means the unconstitutional, an
archie and revolutionary policy OF tn
: Carnegie company, which seems to evinc
3 a contempt of public and private interest
. and iisdain of the public conscience b
Q its refusal to submit to lawful arbitration
and by the lawless importation Of u ban
g OF armed mercenaries to forcibly depriy
|. the employees Of their equitable rights l
= advance OF any legal adjudication Their
upon, and without previous appeal 10 th