Connecticut western news., 1892-11-24
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HOMESTEAD MEN BEATEN AFTER
 A LONG FIGHT.
Not More Than Third of the yanquished workmen will He Able to Get Work st the Carnegie MiIIs-Angry Words at the Meeting.


 workmen will He Able to Get Work st
 the Carnegie MiIIs-Angry Words at
 the Meeting.
 HOMESTEAD, Pa, Nov. 22.-The great Homestead strike or lockout was brought to an end Sunday at & meeting held in the rink, which was presided over by Richard Hotchkiss, the new chairman of the strik- ers' advisory board. Secretary Killgallon, Vice President Carney and Treasurer Mad den, national officers of the Amalgamated association, were present. The lockout had reached its 18th day. Its history is known the world over The vote that opened the Homestead Steel works to Amalgamated men stood 101 to 91. The meeting was a redhot one all the way through, and at one time it looked as if Burgess Hollingshead would have to assert his official authority to prevent serious conflict. Charges and countercharges were the order of the day, and it is said that those wishing to declare the mill open barely succeeded in carrying their point.
 Many Men VIII Remain Idle,
 Now that the agony is over these men are not backward about expressing their opin- ion of the men who have posed as leaders. According to Superintendent Wood, of the Homestead works, not more than 800 or 900 of the total number of old employees will be able to secure employment. Before the break of last Thursday there were left in Homestead about 2,s00 of the original 8, 500 men who were locked.o out on June 25. Of these 2,S00 men {, 200 were mechanics and laborers and 600 Amalgamated association men. Up to date 100 men have applied for work, and it is estimated that not more than $50 men have been supplied with em' ployment.
 The men stand about in groups discuss ing the plight they find themselves in, With winter upon them they see nothing in store now but a struggle for existence which may assume the proportions of Q famine. The oft repeated declarationssoi the Carnegie officials that the nonunion men will not be displaced to give employ ment to the strikers renders absolutely nc hope in Homestead for 2,000 of the de feated steel workers, a.
 Assistant Superintendent Wood says ''The company held out no inducememi whatever for the men to return. At nc time have there been over 2, 600 men in ths works since the start.was made in July Counting every man employed since ths strike, the total will not exceed 8, 500. 1I prosperous times we have employed 8, ,s0I men. The nominal number Is 9,200, Al contracts made by the company within [ month prior to the strike were made witl the provisions that there'might be trouble We have lost nothing in contracts whicl were made prior to the strike, but W, failed to obtain orders which we otherwis' could have secured"
 What the Big Strike Cost. The pecuniary loss to the state, Ale ghany county, Carnegie Steel company ana the workingmeni is estimated at between q, 000, 900 and q, ,oo0, GOO.
 The lockout went into effect June 80 owing to the inability tof the official of the Carnegie company and the official of the Amalgamated association to arrv at an amicable basis for the new scale O wages due to 20 into effect on July 81.
 The building of fences, laying of stean pipes about the Homestead front and tn stringing of electric barb wires about th plant so enraged the men that when, loI July 6, the two barges loaded with Pink erton detectives attempted to make a land ing the serious, trouble began, in whicl the loss of a soore-or more lives, the main | ing of as many more men, the burning O the barges and the calling out of the entir national guard of Pennsylvania are nov matters of history.
 The cost put upon Alleghany county b, the strike is fixed at s200O00 The loss t. the Carnegie Steel company Is variousl. estimated at from $1 ,0o0, 900 to S2, ,500, ,ooo The loss to the old employees has averaged | s125 900 per month, making the total fo five months s625, 900. At least thirty-dve deaths were directl, or indirectly caused by the strike Beside those killed in the battle of July man, soldiers contracted fever which resulte, fatally, one soldier was shot accidentally another was killed by the cars, one strike committed suicide, several nonunion mel died from fever, several were killed in th mill and one was murdered by anothe nonunionist. The attempted assassination | of Chairman Prick, of the Carnegie com pany, is also indirectly credited to tn | strike. a..#