Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-09
HOMESTEADERS JOYFUL
Non Unionist Desertions Make
Strikers Hopeful.
END oFTHg TROUBLE AT DuouEsNE

Nearly SIX Hundred of the Old Men Go
Back to work--RIoters Held-AmalEa
mated Association and Iron Nanurac-
turers to Confer To-Day.
HOMESTEAD, Aug. cit would be hard
to find a more jubilant or more hopeful
set of men than are the Homestead strik-
ers to-day. Not since the beginning of
the present conflict have they been SO
confident of success. Last week many of
them were going around attired in their
Sunday clothes and respondent looks.
They were beginning to feel that the bat
tie was about as good as lost, and thu
leaders experienced no little difficulty in
keeping the discouraged ones in line.
1t is different now This sudden change
in the situation was brought about by so
many of the company's non-unionists de-
serting their posts yesterday. From the
time the main entrance to Fort Prick"
was opened in the morning until it closed
in the evening men continued to leave the
mill. Those who cam out through the
main gate were received with open arms
by the strikers, who conducted them to
their headquarters two squares distant.
Here were assembled all through the
day several hundred idle steel workers,
and the arrival of each non-union man
was the signal for cheers of the most en-
thusiastic brand. The deserters from the
little army of imprisoned workmen were
provided with transportation to their
homes, the majority of them being sent to
Philadelphia aud Baltimore.
Chairman Crawford of the Advisory
Committee said, this morning, that over
100 men had come from the mill to ANAL
gamated headquarters during the day.
1--WE have the names of 146 of them, "
said Mr.. Crawford, land we have it that
I fully that many took their departure by
| boat. 1t is no exaggeration to say that
| over 400 have left the company's employ
since Saturday. They represented the
more intelligent workmen secured by the
| company. Such a stampede of the men
| who came here to take our places natural
ly encourages US, and we feel to-day thai
| we have the fight as good as won."
The men are i'll ecstatcies of delight at
the new turn in affairs. In consequence,
they are now more confident than ever
that it will only be short time until the
company will give in and they will bt
taken back by their former employers and
their organization recognized.
Lieut.-Col. James B. Streator was
| unanimously reelected to his position IL
the 10th Regiment last evening, his tern
having expired. This is complete vim
| dication of his course in the Private lams
affair by the latter's comrades. WheI
the news reached this side of the rive
the three regiments gave three cheers.
Richard Nichols, the night superin
tendent and puddle boss at the Thirty
third street mill in Pittsburg, has re
signed and to-day made report to tn
strikers. He says he quit work becaus
he was asked to do all sorts of work TO
the performance of which no persons hat
been secured. None of the iron made b,
the non-union men, he says, has beef
worth anything, being burned and sen
4 to the ''scrap- pile" He reports the com
pany has really accomplished nothing, bu
has spent u great deal of money i'll at
tempting to run with the unskilled work
men now employed. Nichols, the striker
claim, is q spy for the company and the
say his resignation is a scheme to obtai
knowledge of their movements.