The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-07-07
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.

PITTsBURG (Pa.), July GETTYSBURG
has had another experience with labor
riots, and this time, as during the fearful
scenes which were witnessed during the
riots of 1877, blood has been shed, life
jeopardized and valuable property placed
in danger. This time there was no de-
struction of property, but the mob is
thoroughly well organized, well dis
ciplined, and had efficient officers at its
head TO conduct operations.
The force embraced all the men en-
ployed in the extensive plants of the
Carnegie Iron and Steel Company at
Homestead, eight miles east of Pittsburg,
and battle, which for blood-thirstiness
and holiness of execution has not been
exeelled in actual warfare, ragged from
O'Clock in the morning until 5 O'Clock
this afternoon, and only ceased when the
force Of Pinkertons, brought to the place
to suppress the strike, Internationally
surrendered, leaving their arms in the
barges in which they had been trans
ported to their works.
The riot to-day was the elimination of
trouble which has been brewing at Home
stead for the past month. The Carnegie
Company submitted scale which was to
govern the workmen in the steel plants,
and announced that it was their ulti-
matum. The scale made a sweeping re-
duction in the wages of skilled men, and
it was officially announced that unless
the terms were complied with before
July lst the places of the worlmen would
be filed by others. This was followed
by peremptory refusal on the part of
the company to recognize the Amalga-
mated Association.
The men announced their determine
ton to resist any effort on the part of
Carnegie to run the plants with non
union men. The trouble was precipi-
tated by the workmen at Homestead
hanging II. &. Prick, President of the
company, in effigy, and in retaliation the
company ordered an immediate shut
down of the big works. The employees
at once proceeded to organize for the de-
fensive, and the company erected high
board fence around the entire works, Civ
ing them the appearance of an immense
stockade, ths sides being pierced with
PORTFOLIOS.
Yesterday the Carnegie Company an
ready to make repairs, and the officials
asked the Sheriff to appoint deputies to
protect the property. The Sheriff sent a
small squad of men up to the works, but
the strikers assembled i'll force and mott
fed them to get out Of town, as no dis
order was intended, and no damage
would be done to property. They even
offered to be sworn in as deputies and
give bonds for the faithful performance
of their duties as conservators of the
peace. When the offer was declined the
Advisory Committee, which had been
directing the action of the workmen and
held the turbulent spirits among the
workmen in check, was Immediately
dissolved, and all records of the commit
tee promptly destroyed.
The developments to-day showed that
applications made for the assistance OF
the Sheriff were merely for the purpose
OF covering what was intended to be a
coup de main on the part of the Carnegie
Company, in clandestinely Introducing a
body of Pinkerton guards into the mill
Enclosure.
These men had been rendezvoused
some i've or six miles below the city on
the ONO River, at which place two model
barges had been prepared for them. The
barges We're htted up with hunks, cook
ing arrangements and other accommoda-
tons, and as an extra precaution, as if in
preparation for the siege toswhich they
were subjected to-day, we're lined with
heavy steel plates on the inside. while the
whole back of the deck was protected in
a similar manner.
1t was the intention that the men
should reach the works at 8 O'Clock this
morning. but the strikers on duty alopr
the river got word of the threatened in
yasion of the hated Pinkerton men and
prepared TO receive them. TIE barras
were towed up the river by a tow-boat
but long before the Pinkerton men
reached Homestead thousands OF strikers
were gathered on the banks Of the river
ready to give them a warm welcome.
When the boats attempted to land thu
workmen broke through the fence sur