Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-07-16
UNION MEN
IN The MILLS
A Small Force Now at Work
in the Carnegie Shops
at Homestead.
MORE WILL BE BROUGHT IN I'M
MEDIATELY.
AN ULrIMATUM TO THE STRIKERS

If They Do Not Apply by Next Thursday
Their Positions VIII be Given to New
NIen-Manager Frick Determined to Run
the Mills with Non-Union Help-The
Men Confident as Ever-Gen. Snowden
and His staff Unable to Obtain Meals at
the Hotel Because of n Strike In tho
Kitchen-Powderly's Letter to Governor
Pattison and President Harrison.
HOMESTEAD, July 16.-There is no doubt
that non-union workmen are now inside
the gates of the Carnegie plant, but their
number is so small that they are practi-
cally dead letter in connection with the
operation of the mills. These men entered
the works quietly at an hour when suspi-
cion was stilled, and arrangements for
their comfort until q larger force comes to
ioin them have been made. Five furna-
Ger are running and about fifty men are
at work.
Some of them are believed to have en-
tered by the river front, while others came
by train to Homestead and mingled with
the people without exciting suspicion.
Their number cannot be ascertained, but it
is certain that no great body of men such
as would be required to run the works
could have entered the mills without be-
ing seen.
Smoke seen issuing from the chimneys
of two of the Carnegie mills for short
time caused the suspicion to become prev
alent that non-union men were in the
works. This suspicion was later con-
hrmed.
A circular has been posted at all the
mill entrances. The circular is head ed
/ "The Carnegie Steel Company, Limited"
and in poster type under the heading is
the word "Notice" in startling black caps,
with an exclamation point. The body of
| the circular reads:
Individual applications for employ
ment at the Homestead Steel Works will
| be received by the general superintendent
| in person or by letter, until p m. Thurs
day, July 81, 1903. 1t is our desire to re-
| tain in our service all Of our old employees
whose past record is satisfactory, and who
did not take part in the attempts which
have been made to interfere with our
| rights to manage our business. Such of
| our old employees as do not apply by the
time above named will be considered as
| having no desire to re-enter our employ
| ment, and the positions which they have
| held will be given to other men, and those
first applying will have the choice of the
untitled positions for which they are suit
| able"
|
strikers is question. 1t is not likely
that at first there will be any assertions
| from the ranks, notwithstanding the I'M
| doubted fact that there are many men
among them who would like to go back to
work at the company's terms. Six days
are given in which they may consider.
Information on the subject is not OBJ
tainable from the mill officers. When the
smoke began to issue from the mills some
| who saw ii made dash for
one of the gates and were kept back at
the point of the bayonets of the military
guard.
The leaders of the strikers wear an air
of supreme confidence. They say that
they have won the fight and that the Car
negie Company realize this, or will realize
it when they have tried the experiment of
running the works for few weeks with
green hands. All interest centers in the
| probable introduction of enough non
union men to start the mills and the
strikers spend their time discussing this
phase of the situation.
| Some are inclined to think the Carnegie
Company will win, but there does not
appear to be any indication of acquies-
cence in the statement of Mr.. Lovejoy,
secretary to Mr.. Prick, that fully two
thirds of the Homestead workers will go
back to their vacant posts when the mills
are started.
Preparations for placing non union men
in the Carnegie mills are going forward.
The Tide came up the river this morning
from Pittsburg and proceeded direct to
the landing place of the works A gang
of men were waiting for her and her
freight, consisting of cots, blankets, can
VasS and camp utensils, was unloaded
and placed inside the mill property.
The Poor Farm property, which is in
side the big fence, and is now the property
of the Carnegie Company, contains big
[ level field, which will make good camp
ing ground for the workmen, and the
large building which has been used for
l the county poor will hold a number. 1t is
= evidently the intention of the Carnegie
people to utilize this portion of the
plant, which is located so admirably for
6 the purpose, as to suggest the possibility
that the present emergency was expected
and carefully prepared for long in ad-
| vance.
A number of incidents tending to en-
| courage the locked-out men in their posi-
ton have happened. Allen Hubbard, the
foreman of the arInor plate shop of the
Carnegie mills, has quit work. He re
fused to work under police protection and
= declared that If the militia were to be used
for police duty in order to operate the
l. mills he would not work there, but would
y seek employment elsewhere.
q The entire force of the civil engineering
"a department of the mills has also quit
IS work out of sympathy with the locked
out men.
An amusing incident bearing on tn,
strike and the presence of the militia here
is the refusal of the cooks and mattresses
= of the Club House here to prepare or serv
meals while Gen. Snowden and his officer
took their meals there. The Club Hous
is a sort of hotel for the convenience o
employees of the Homestead plant, ant
during the occupancy OF the town by tn
r. militia, Gen. Snowden and number @
his officers nave been taking their meal
r there The cooks and mattresses sympa
s, thize with the locked-out men, and the
~ expressed their sympathy this morning b
10 not reporting for duty and sending mes
- sage that they would not work at the he
tel while Gen. Snowden and his officer
were there.