Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-26
APPLYING FOR WORK.
Superintendent Potter Says He Is
Busy Answering Letters
FROM MEN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.
Said to Re Turning ont Good Plates From
the 119-Inch Mill
QUIET AT TIE UPPER AND LOWER UNION

A reporter of THE DISPATCH called on
Superintendent Potter at the Carnegie offices
| in Homestead and found him almost buried
| in letters. After he had finished the re-
porter remarked that he looked busy. He
! replied: .r
"Busy! That is no name for it. w4have
just emptied three waste baskets of these
letters and what do you suppose they are?
Applications for positions from every
where. Just take look at some of them. -
The reporter was handed number of the
letters which proved to be applications for
positions of all sorts, coming from indi-
viduals az well as people writing in the in
terests of 300 workmen. "No. we are having
no trouble getting men, IS you can see, but
we are having some work in answering the
applications have kept three typewriters
busy all morning, and am not through yet. 4"
"How many men have you now in the
works?"
,"We had up to o'clock to-day 475 men
exclusive of the foremen and bosses, and
many more on the way. If we had 1, 900
men tonight we would have no trouble in
accommodating them. You can see by
glancing out this window that we have not
stopped there, but are preparing for more.
That boarding house will be ready tor oc-
cupancy tomorrow morning"
Chow much material have you shipped
since you started?'
"We have shipped six carloads of finished
material and have quite a quantity of armor
plate lying in the yard ready to be shipped.
A great deal has been said concerning our
ability to turn out first-class material with
the men we now have. Mr. Hunt has in
spected the plates rolled and said they were
as good as any we have ever turned out"
"An Amalgamated man came to me and
said he thought it was all bluff about us
having 200 men in the mill, but if we really
had that many he would be inclined to re-
turn to work. 1 asked him if he meant bus
mess and upon his answering that
he did. took him by the arm
and told him to come with me.
When we got down into the yard he said
You do seem to have some men here,
don't you.' took him 60 the cook of one
of the boarding houses and he asked him
how many men he had fed that day at
dinner. The cook replied 300, which seemed
to take the breath out of the gentleman.
However, he said, 4 have to believe my
eyes, and am ready to 60 to work imme-
dlately.' He pulled off his coat and after
going to our writing room to send letter to
his wife that he had gone on trip he went
to his department. I have also received
several letters from my f0remen, OF which
these two are fair samples"
The reporter read the letters which were
in substance that the writers had been stop
ped by some of the former workmen, and
threatened if they shonld ever be seen re-
turning to the mills. In view of these facts
the writer's thought it advisable to stay
away.
when will you start up the beam mill?"
'That will be sometime in the near future.
peculiar thing about the beam mill is the
fact that only one man in the whole depart
ment belongs to the Amalgamated. We
have heat now in the open hearth furnace,
and it will be only short time before every
department is running"
Captain Hunt, who inspects the plates,
when asked concerning the quality of the
plates rolled since the lockout, said, II in
spected the plates rolled on the 119 inch
mill and found them to be as good as any
have examined" ~.