Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-28
realizing the difficulty of arriving

facturers, realizing the difficulty of arriving
at q settlement
Many of .Homestead's most prominent
citizens are of the opinion that the trouble
there will yet be amicably settled and one,
to strengthen his assertion, says if the scale
of the Carnegie Steel Company, with Its
recent concessions be signed, the highest
paid workmen will not lose over 75 cents on
every 100 tons He also claims that If the
company signs the scale the excess would
only amount to from S25, 600 to $4O, ,OOo per
annum, while it will cost the firm
fully 81 100000 to stand strike. The
workmen, on the other hand, claim they
are in better position to know the true
situation than any disinterested parties.
They unite in stating that there will GER
tainly be strike, as the firms movements
in the past three weeks point strongly to
Carnegie Steel Company has shown all
along that it prefers to operate its mills
with non-union men than to employ organ
lied labor, and it was pretty generally
known that it would raise some point
at this years conference to which the
Amalgamated Association would not agree
and consequently trouble would cnsue. To
prove this the firm began preparations for a
conflict long time previous to their con-
ference with the workmen; even before
they knew whether or not their scale would
be accepted"
Pinkerton Detectives at Homestead.
A Homestead correspondent furnishes
the following: To-day little incident
occurred here that created great deal of
excitement for the time, as 1t bears directly
on the situation here between the Carnegies
and Amalgamated men. Strangers had
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for some time and but little attention was
paid them. To-day it was reported that
they were Pinkerton men, and also that
several of the coal and iron police, who had
patrolled the coke regions during the late
strike, were in the city, and watching the
movements of the men.
A committee was at once appointed to
look up the suspected strangers and ask
their business here at this time. The two
men were found in Nick Schwarz's saloon.
They were quietly drinking beer and talk
ing over the labor situation with the
proprietor. Without any explanation what
ever, the workmen walked up to them and
demanded their business. ''Oh, we are only
here looking around. We have a little pri-
vate business to attend to-" said one of the
men.
"You are only looking around, are you?"
queried one OF the committee "Well, the
best thing you can do is to get out, and do
your looking around from some other sea-
port"
The strangers protested that they were
only looking into their private affairs, and
had nothing to do with the mill troubl.
Il know you." broke in another mem
ber of the committee. 81 saw you both
then, and YOU watched the mills there dur
ing the strike Get out
Lett tbs Town in a Hurry.
The fellows were given half an hour to
leave town. They were followed to the
depot by a crowd of hooting men and
boys. The workmen kept aloof, but the
word that two Pinkertons were being run
out of town soon spread and they had a
most uncomfortable wait at the depot.
Word was received here tonight that at
least 200 Pinkertons and members of the
Coal and Iron Police will be here Thursday
next
again permitted to go to work bv the Anal |
gamsted Association. The spokesman of i
the party made q clear statement of what |
his countrymen expected to do should |
trouble arise. He said that they all real |
lied they must have head, or controlling |
power. Usually in strikes, or in the event |
of any trouble, they were too radical |
ment to-day from the laborers. A commit |
tee of foreigners waited on the several |
lodges of the Amalgamated Association and |
Informed the officers that they had decided |
to stick by the organization to the last man.
Several hundred of these foreign workmen.
comprising the better element of Slavs
and Hungarians, met and voted unani-
mously to strike when ordered and |
to remain out until they were
and as result suffered the worst In every
fight they were at the front and in every |
retreat they were in the rear. They were
uncomfortable when their passions were
once aroused, unless they had leader, and |
he asked that representative American be
appointed to take charge.
Their request was complied with, and the
laborers were tolled off into six squads. Over
each squad there was placed a cool-headed,
American, whose actions will |
be guided by orders from higher officials,
and whose orders the foreigners have sworn
to obey. Both the firm and men are pre-
pared for struggle which the better class
hopes and believes will not come.