Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-26
PREPARING FOR A STRIKE.
Pittsburg Citizens Taking Steps to
Settle the Trouble.
r Nd is WEIHE'S SUCCESSOR.
The Report Of the Conference Committee
Is Postponed.
NO ACTION EXPECTED FOR AWHILE

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the Carnegie Steel Company with the
Amalgamated Association, and the oath of
june, the day set by the firm, having
passed without an agreement being reached:
the time has not and will not be extended to
enable the workmen as an organization to
sign the scale il they reconsider their former
action"
So declared General Manager Fl. G. Frick,
| of Carnegie, Phipps s. Co., last night. Mr..
Frick was asked several questions bearing
strongly upon the situation at Homestead
and the future action of his company, but
he would not say anything additional to the
| above statement Mr.. Frick has already
been quoted as saying: 1--WE conceded one
point in our scale to the Amalgamated As
sociation in consenting to make the basis
for steel billets S23 per ton instead OF 500 as
we first inserted, and no further concessions
than this will be made by us.
The differences between the Carnegie in
terests and tine workmen have reached a
very critical aspect and for the first time
since the discussion of wage matters be-
tween the Amalgamated Association and
the iron and steel manufacturers a strike
seems almost inevitable. Mr.. Loveioy, one
of the representatives of the Carnegie Steel
Company, has torroborated the statements
made by Mr.. Frick, and this fact alone goes
to strengthen the idea that the firm intends
to make decided stand.
Preparing for tn, Homestead Strike.
Never in the history of the Anlalgamated
Association have such extensive prepara-
tions been make for strike as at the indus
trial town up the Monongahela river.
While the manufacturers, however, have
been doing all in their power to make the
Homestead mills proof against the most
violent assault, the workmen have not been
idle. They have been saving their earnings
for some weeks past and openly assert that
they can stay out on strike for year if
they find it necessary.
In addition to preparing for every con-
tingency now in sight it is reported that
the employees of the Homestead mills have
obtained pledge from the railroad COM
panies running into that place that no
trains CARRYING men to take their places in
case of strike will be stopped at the works
Trains will only come to a standstill at
was obtained with the view OF preventing
repetition of the scenes of 1889, when work
men to take the strikers places were carried
into the grounds By the trainload.
Now that it has been almost decided that
neither side will give in the citizens of
Pittsburg have become interested. and in
stead of waiting for the Amalgamated As
sociation and the manufacturers to formu-
late an agreement, will exert their influence
to have the trouble satisfactorily adjusted
1t is stated on excellent authority that
secret steps have already been taken by
some influential citizens to form committee
which will confer with members, both of the |
Amalgamated Association and the Pitts |
burg manufacturers, including the Carnegie |
Steel Company, to learn if some amicable |
arrangement cannot yet be effected to place |
both organizations upon friendly footing. |
Two More Conferences to Be Held.
Besides the other regular business to be |
transacted by the delegates to the conven-
tion next week there will be two more con-
ferences which they will be required to act |
upon. One of these conferences will be |
with the Association of Iron and Steel |
SueeG haDuldcIuItTs, udhlHS Ine lnlTO |
time this body has met the Wage Commit |
tee of the Amalgamated Association, while |
the other will be with the Mahoning and |
Shenango Valley manufacturers.
At the meeting with the iron and steel |
sheet manufacturers it is expected that there
will be settlement effected, as the points of |
differences between the two bodies are of /
minor Importance, and either one side or
the her will probably give in before they |
allow another disagreement The meeting |
with the Youngstown mill owners,
however, will not witness such an
easy adjustment. These iron and steel mas
tiers were the first to ask for heavy reduc-
tions in the old scale, and if they uphold |
the same position they took at the first
meeting their second conference will be as
fruitless as the last one held with the Pitts
burg manufacturers
On Sunday last it was publicly announced |
that there would be mass meeting of the
employees of the Carnegie Steel Company
in the Homestead Opera House this morn
ing. For some reason not given it is now
denied that any such session will take |
place. 1t is thought very probable that this
meeting has been changed from public to
a secret gathering.