Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28
afternoon. The talent of home and abroad

afternoon. The talent of home and abroad
occupied the stage.
Presid snt Eberhard Makes q Speech.
President William Eberhardt, of the
Window Glass Workers Association, was
the first speaker. He said: "I know you
have in your ranks men who fail to appre-
ciate the importance of a meeting like this
This is a mistake, for it is just by meetings
like these we must win. want to give
you q piece of common sense. There good
who made this world and now He rules it.
If there is one thing in His word that is
true it is that He did not place anything on
this earth too good for the workingman.
God has decreed that we get things
| by the sweat of our brow. There
is not man on earth but who should nave
all the good things going. 1 want to show
you that God meant these things were to be
obtained through. organization. We
cannot get anything through lawlessness
or idleness We may work for
things and not get them. This is because
the workingman has not been keeping up
with the millionaire. While you have been
laggards they have been combining capital
Laboring Men Should Rule the World.
ssThe laboring man makes the world, and
he ought to rule it To do this we must
work toward organization. We have not
been energetic enough. or we would now
have the whole thing in our hands.
"You are fighting in a holy cause; fight it
out on the principle of right, and good will
come in the end. The laborer's wages are
put into Golfers or wasted in building monu-
ments to the monopolist's own name.
Time has come for prompt action. If labor
wants to succeed it has to be a solid body.
If the conference system is allowed to be
swept away the last liberty is taken from
the workingman. Let capitalists organize,
there are not too many monopolists. All
we have to do is to unionize ourselves
Just now there is q possibility that ciyili-
zation is in danger of drifting back to bar
barity again. Prevent it. This can be
done by being true to law, the dictator of
your conscience; be manly and make
strong, firm fight"
Unionism Advanced Ten Years.
Continuing, the speaker called the atten-
tion of the workingmen to the fact that the
politician should not be listened to at these
times. He said if the present trouble had
done nothing else it had advanced organized
labor ten years and brought all trade unions
closer together.
Ex-Superintendent Nichols, of the Thirty
third street mill, spoke next. He urged
the men to continue In the fight to q finish.
He told them it was no use to at
tach the militia, as a mightier power
speaker said that 81, 900, 900 a month would
not cover the loss of the Carnegie Steel
Company. He then said they could not
stand this loss very long.
Joseph Most, q Homestead business man,
followed him in few remarks
Attorney Argo of Sioux City, spoke very
briefly. He was followed by his partner,
Irwin, of st. Paul. He made this remark:
''Mr. Argo and myself have been sent to
Pittsburg by the working people of the
Northwest to compel the courts of Pennsyl-
vania to take notice Of the rights of the
workingman."
O'Donnen Makes q Statement.
Hugh O'Donnell spoke next. Said he:
'T do not think the strikers of Homestead
need any encouragement Judging from
L saw in Eastern papers that
the relations between myself and the Ad-
visory Committee were strained. The re-
ception given to me here to-day does not
look like it We are all leaders, none of us
wishing to pose as leader. Be charitable,
no matter what you hear about those
who have been putting themselves
forward. 1 am to-day the same as was on
July /. never presumed while away to
act without the advice of the committee. l
have not been in the East in the interest of
any political party, and 1 do not
want them to get mixed up in our
fight. While away 1 collected and ar
ranged for nearly $4,000 to be sent to
Homestead. wish to prove to you that I
haven't proven recreant vet I have here
a number of comments on my Eastern
speeches, which will read to YOU
Hugh O'DonneII Contradicts Himself
O'Donnell stood facing the audience for
moment and then said: mo, will not
read them. They will be printed in
our local paper; you can all read them
there" Turning toward the table where
the Pittsburg newspaper reporters were
sitting, he continued: "It would be no use
to read this matter here, as these gentlemen
would not report it correctly" O'Donnell,
less than "a hours before, had stated that
THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH was eagerly
read in the East on account of its fair
reports of the Homestead trouble
James B. Gibson is the latest Homestead
| striker to be arrested on warrant issued
by Alderman McMasters. Gibson was ar
rested at Homestead yesterday by Constable
Price, who had no trouble in making the
arrest. The prisoner was brought to the
city, and on waving hearing was COM
mitted for trial at court The prisoner is
charged with riot, the information having
been made by Secretary Lovejoy.