Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-30
STRIKE OFF.
End of the Celebrated Amalgam.
ated Strike.
Some of the Strikers in Bad ShsRs-XAsy
Are BIackiisted ara Have Ps0s Fu-
ture Prospects-The Ca1se
of the Trouble.
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HOMESTEAD, Pa, Nov. 2l-4As epsat
strike at Carnegie's Hoaestead stsSl
works has been declared oR. A1sse q
five months struggle, which ~ b4ttsp-
ness has probably never been egsAisd
in this country, the army OF strths1s
finally decided to give up the AxhA
This action was taken at a meeting e
the lodges of the Amalgamated assoeia-
tlon at Homestead yesterday afternoon,
the vote standing 101 in favor Of declar-
ing off the strike and 81 against It.
Among those present at the meeting
We're Vice President Carney, Secretary
kigailOn, Treasurer Madden and David
Lynch, of the advisory board. The of
1icials addressed the members and in
plain words told them the strike was
lost and advised them to take steps to
better their condition The remarks
met with considerable opposition. but
when the vote was taken it showed
majority of ten in favor of declaring
the strike off
/ Those who were in favor of calling
the strike off were jubilant while those
who were against it were badly put out
Most the latter were men who were
obstinate and many of them either had
applied for positions in the mill and
bad been turned down or felt sure that
their names were ON the company's
black list and they could not get posi-
| tions.
| A member of the advisory board said
| yesterday that he had been trying to
get the strike declared off for some
weeks, as he knew it was lost. and it
would have been better for the men as
great many more of them could have
gotten their places back.
Those who cannot get back are in a
bad fix as the relief funds will be
stopped and many hundreds of them
have nothing to live on.
The people in Homestead, especially
the business men, are highly elated
over the declaration to call the strike
off, for if it had continued much longer
1t would have ruined the town Many
bus ness houses have fallen into the
hands OF the sheriff since the strike has
been on. Business is expected to re-
sumo its normal condition soon.
The Homestead strike has proved one
Of the NEST disastrous in the history of
the country. 1t originated from . re-
CuctiOn in wages in the departments
where members of the Amalgamated
association of iron and steel work
ers were employed The hitch was
on what is known as the sliding scale.
] t is d scale which regulates the mems
wages by the market price of steel bill
lets. Nearly every mill in this vicinity
signed the scale, including other mills
of the Carnegie company. At tho re-
fusal of the firm to sign the scale for
the Homestead mill, lockout occurred
by the Amalganated association and
they We're Joined by the mechanics
laborers, who struck out of sympathy
only. their wages not being reduced.
The strikers drove non-union men out
of the mill and adopted military disci-
pline. The story of the bloody fight
with the Pinkertons on July 6, tho SUBJ
sequent riotous proceedings and tho
calling out of the National guard aud
its departure after three months duty
| is too well known to repeat
For six weeks the mill has been run
ming almost as well as before the strike,
but until within the last week the
strikers have steadfastly refused to
admit defeat. The news of the ac-
| tion was received with dismay by the
| strikers in the two Lawrenceville mills
of Carnegie's. These men were sym
pathy strikers and went out when the
men at Beaver Falls and Duquesne
struck. The Duquesne men gave up
the strike in three weeks and the
| Beaver Falls strikers decided to go
back yesterday. The Lawrenceville
men, however, were steadfast and had
no intention of giving in. They are
now in the position of striking for no
cause They are very angry at the
Homestead men and viii probably de-
clare the strike off tomorrow.
The strike at one time involved near
| ly 10000 men and the loss in wages Will
reach il is said, in the neigh ghborhood of
81, 0G0, 600. Then there is the immense
| loss to the firm. which cannot be esti-
mated. but which conservative people
| put at least double the amount lost by
the men in wages To this can be
added nearly 100000 paid to the state
troops and to the cost to the county of
Allegheny for the riot, treason and
other cases, growing out of the strike.
! The attempted assassination of Chair
man Frick of the Carnegie company is
also indirectly credited to the strike.
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