Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-15
ANXIETY AT HOMESTEAD.
Everybody on the Lookout
for "Black Sheep"
The Arrival Of Nom Union Men
Hourly Expected.
Efforts Will Be Made to Dissuade
Them from Going to Work.
Moro Bloodshed Anticipated = Opera
tives In Carnegie's Pittsburg Mills
Go on a strike--The Congress
sional Inquiry.
By the Associated Press.l

By the Associated Press.l
HOMESTEAD, July 14.-All day long
everybody in Homestead has been ex-
pecting the arrival Of 400 non-union
workmen. They were scheduled to ar
rive at 8 80 O'Clock. but up to late
hour the 'sbiack Sheep have not ma
terialized. At special meeting Of the
advisory committee tonight it was be-
lieved the men would be brought in by
the river, and the patrols were strength.
ened ON the banks of the Monongahela
to meet and srgue with the incomers. It
was urged that any resort to violence
would be practically treason. The
pickets were advised to ask the in
comers if they were taking the places of
straight workmen because they needed
food for themselves and families. II
an affirmative reply was returned the
com .nittee was authorized to promise
to help them until they could secure
other work. The committee is i'm
pressed with the necessity of using the
utmost discretion. 1t is here that the
only danger of collision exists, rs the
strikers will certainly endeavor to talk
to the NJ n-union men as they are
brought in. The patrols have been es-
tablished for this sole purpose, and if
the militia will not permit argument,
there may be an effort to have argument
whether or no.
& The situation isto some extent crit
ical, because Of the strict discipline.
The troops are very liable to clash with
the utterly fearless, determined strikers.
The latter propose to speak to any one
they please, 30 long as they are peace
able. On the other hand, it is believed
no one will be permitted to speak with
the new arrivals.
B A mass meeting OF the locked-out men
In Carnegie's steel works viii be held
tomorrow, to decide the best method Of
distributing the relief proffered by the
labor organizations.
While martial law has not been
officially declared in this borough, it
has taken place TO all practical plirposess
This is the result of illegal arrests yes
terday by special policemen. This
morning two companies of troops, with
twenty rounds of ball cartridges and
fixed bayonets, were ordered to patrol the
streets. They were ordered that in cases OF
arrest by policemen for any manifest
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they were not to interfere. but in all
other cases they are to take both the
prisoner and the policeman before the
provost marshal, and if the arrest is il
legal the policeman will be punished.
General Snowden says the military will
cooperate with the civil authorities in
preventing illegal arrests, and in secur-
ing somewhat more certain preserva-
tion of the peace.
1t was reported this morning that the
town was officially declared under mar
tial law, and the strikers were not at all
pleased when they heard it, as they
thought it presaged an immediate at
tempt to run in non.union men. There
was an unusual number of men in the
mills today, but whether they are nom
union men has not been learned.
The locked out men are not entirely
pleased with the action of Carnegie's
men in the other mills threatening to
strike unless conference is granted the
Homestead men, as they believe the
others can do them more good in case of
long struggle by remaining at work
and helping them financially.