Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-14
MLNO d ILLL0nAIn Il,
From ALI Quarters.
STRIKE TO Be GENERAL.
Serious Trouble Imminent
at Homestead.
The SITUATION IN BOISE CITY.
Strikers Are Destroying the
Railroads.
| THE SITUATION IN BOISE CITY,
The FREE silver BILL SMoTHERED
The Crew of a Torpedo
Boat Missing.

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Boat Missing.
TROUBLE BREWING.
A sympathetic Strike Imminent-A
Move Expected To-day.
P1rTsBURG, July ia strike of all the
employees of Carnegie's Pittsburg and
Beaver Falls mills is expected tomorrow
because their employers will not grant q
conference to the Homestead men.
PRICK TESrIFIES.
He Cannot Remember Whether He
Asked the Pfnkertons to be Armed
| -He TciegraPhed Sunday Night
for Troops - The Whole Difficulty
is Reviewed Wages Higher Than
in Eastern Mills.
PITTsBURG, July 13.-When the congress
sional committee resumed its investiga-
ton of the Homestead trouble this morn
ing, about fifty persons were present, in
Guiding Mr.. Frick and Messrs. Weihe,
O'Donnell, Carney and other members of
the Amalgamsted association. The room
was hot and uncomfortable. The exami-
nation of Mr.. Prick was continued. Mr..
Frick said the arms were consigned to the
Union Supply company and by it dsliv-
cred to Captain Rodgers of the steamer
Little Bill. His arrangements to obtain
Pinkertons were completed July 1. So far
as he knew there was no letter from Pink
erton accepting the offer contained in the
letter of June 25. The negotiations were
carried on by Mr.. Frick, the New York
agent and the Philadelphia agent.
"Did you have anything to do with fur
nishing the arms?" asked Mr.. Boatner.
| 81 am not sure" replied the witness
81 may have with our New York agent. u
| Mr.. Boatner tried to get the witness to
answer directly whether his firm had ad-
vised Pinkerton that arms would be need
ed, but all Mr.. Prick would say he believed
| he had.
Mr.. Boatner-"In the employment of
theee men was it stipulated they were to
be armeda"
emo, cir, think not"
Mr.. Boatner-"He has evaded this ques-
ton all through"
At Chairman Oates request the witness
again explained the sliding scale. Mr. Prick
said the prices paid for similar work at
Homestead were higher than any other
place. They are at least per cent higher
than paid in eastern mills.
Ibid you join in the request for troops?"
''No, did not till Sunday night, when
1 wired the governor that believed the
troops were necessary. This was unknown
to the sheriff"
Mr.. Boatner asked if the table made out
of the account paid the men was for them
selves, and when Mr.. Frick said, eyes"
Mr.. Boatner said:
''Well, those are the highest wages I
ever heard Of"
Witness said the introduction of i'm
proved machinery would increase the cost
of production Is per cent, and that the
men worked about 270 days in the year.
Captain Rodgers was then called and told
of the arrangement made with him by Mr..
Frick to take the barges to Homestead
Captain Rodgers said he met Deputy Sheriff
Gray at Davis Island Dam. Gray said he
was to accompany the party officially. The
witness then detailed the story of the fight
ing and said thu first shot was fred by the
strikers.
Sheriff McCleary testified that counsel
for the Carnegies had notified him a week
before the men went out that there would
be trouble and that the company had ar
ranged to send 300 men to Homestead
and they wanted them deputized. He
was notified on July that he
must protect the property of the company.
On Tuesday he sent twelve deputies to the
works and they were driven away. His
efforts to secure posse were detailed at
length. He was notified the night the
Pinkertons went up and he tried to per-
suade them not to send the men, as he
feared trouble. He was finally induced to
send Colonel Gray along to prevent trou-
BILE. Sheriff McCleary said people would
| not serve on his posse because they were
afraid of being killed. This statement
| caused general laugh and Mr.. Boatner
| said the war feeling was not strong here.
The sheriff said he had not authorized Col
onel Gray to deputize the Pinkertons.
Deputy Sheriff Cluley then told how the
| deputies had been driven out by the strik-
ers.
President Weihe was the first witness on
| the side of labor. He reviewed the sliding
scale and the failure to reach an agreement
| with the company. Reductions, he said,
| were proposed in most all departments.
| The men did not think reduction neces-
sary. The reflections would average 19
per cent. The date of expiration of the
scale was a vital question to the men, be-
cause they could not work in the heated
season. AS far as he could estimate the
/
was S1.55.
Judge Taylor asked why the men thought
they had right to take possession of the
| mills.
Mr.. Weihe said: "There may be some
who think 80, but they are not so taught
in the association.
| "Was it not the object of these men,"
asked Judge Taylor, "when they fought
the Pinkertons, to prevent the mill being
worked by non-union men"
| "Wel], that may have been the object.
do not know that it was"
care the matters of physical resistance
settled in your convention9"
| 'tNo, SIR"
"Did you ever offer to arbitrate this
question:
"Not until after the trouble"
care you willing to settle this trouble by
arbitration?'
"The Homestead men are."
care you in favor of an arbitration bill
by which all such matters will be settled2'
"I believe it will come to this, and per-
sonally can see little objection to it..
Compulsory arbitration would not be q
success"
Witness knew that after signing the
scale certain members of the association
notified the company that unless certain
things were done in this controversy they
would quit work.
"Well, know some such thing was
DONE"
Hugh O'Donnellwas called and Mr.. Oates
said: CHOW, Mr.. O'Donnell, we wish to
say that if the answers to any questions
may tend to ircriminate you, need not an
swer them"
"Well, I am not afraid" said Mr.,
O'Donnell. He said the men who were
placed around the fence were not in
structed to keep any one out. They were
!. to persuade non-union men to remain out
Of the mill.
"We intended to use only psaoefp,
MEANS" said the witness.
The witness repeated the story Of the
battle and his efforts to prevent the firing
"What is the great cause of this hatred
to the Pinkertonss" was asked.
"Well," answered the witness, "the
laboring people look upon the Pinkerton.
, as enemies of the laboring mon. The
chief objection to them coming here wa
! that we feared that with them would come
non-union men," A recess was ther
taken.
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