The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-13
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE.
Twenty Thousand Iron
Workers May Aid the
Carnegie Trust
Victims.
TRICKS HARD HEART.
Everything Peaceful About the
WOrks-No Compromise
Possible.

DorOuSn was almost as Qul6G as a cnurCH-
yard this morning There were few
struggling soldiers in the streets and an
occasional viIlager lounged about the
corners. But there was no symptom of
trouble. and the feeling is growing that
there will be no further trouble here.
True, the men who have been locked
out of their place of employment since
June "a because they would not agree to
the new schedule of prices as made up by
the Carnegie Iron and Steel Company
Iimited), still insist that they will not
return to work. and also that they will
not suffer any "black Sheep" which is
the name here for non-union workme n,
to enter the mill. But they seem to have
acquired faith that an amicable agree
ment will be reached with the employers.
This seems the acme of futility, when it
Is considered that representatives on eac b
side have declared their discrimination
not to yield an inch to the other.
STEEL WORKERS MAY COMBINE AGAINST
CARNEGIE.
The secret of the mill mems confidence
in their ultimate victory is undoubtedly
the belief that men in kindred work in
other steel and iron works will join In a
sympathetic strike that will paralyze the
steel industry of America and force the
capitalists interested in the business to
bring an influence to bear upon the Car
negies that will induce them to recede
Confirmation Of Yesterdays rumors
comes this morning in the form of an ulti-
matum from the employees of the upper
aud lower Union mills at Lawrence and
the Beaver Falls mills, that unless Mama
ger Frick meets the lccked-out men half
nd mi hor for q n0N,1r
Use, they will strike. They give the
Carnegie people till tomorrow afternoon
to come to terms. and will then leave their
wcIk if Friok still refuses conference.
There are more than $500 men in these
mills. and there were 1880 men in attend
ance at a mass meeting in Pittsburg, at
which this action was agreed upon. 1t is
sa d, too, that the Keystone Bridge Works
aid the Edgar Thomson mills at b esse-
mer may become involved in the trouble,
though they are not in the Amalgamated
Association.
The belief is general that if the Carne-
gies are permitted to win over the Home
stead men, the doom of organized labor in
Pennsylvania is sealed, and so, though
the Edgar Thomson mills men remember
that the Amalgamated Association re-
fused to help them in their recent
the good of all.
HOMESTEAD MEN EXPECT BIG STRIKE.
Homestead mill hands are jubilantly
declaring that withtng forty-eight hours
there will be 15 600 iron and steel workers
out Oh a strike. The leaders are more
conservative President Weihe. declined
TO express an opinion. He said. how
ever
"1he Executive Board of the Amalga-
mated Association has not given the men
Mt the Bessemer and Beaver Falls mills
orders to strike. but cannot see how we
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not yet been officially informed of the
action Of the mass meeting, and cannot,
of course. express an opinion upon it. and
do not know what action the Executive
Board will take"
Secretary Madden and Assistant Secrs-
tary Killgallon also decline to speak on
the subject.
FRICK AND LovEJoY NoN-CoMNITTAL.
Chairman Frick referred a reporter to
Secretary LovejOy of the Carnegie Com
pany for information. Secretary Love-
JOY said:
plans to the public. We will start the
works at Homestead soon-how soon /
cannot say will say that we will have
enough workmen to operate the works
when we are prepared to resume"
Then he repeated the old, old bluff that
most of the old employees, are anxious to
return to work, though not one man
could be found in Homestead who will
admit that he will return to work until
all are taken in and their demands con-
ceded.
RUMoRs OF COERCION.
Meantime Manager Potter and Super
intendent Otes Childs of the Homestead
works and Sheriff McCleary are holding
long. mysterious conferences in the
big Office OF the millS, and runners are
about that heroic measures are
to be taken TO coerce the workmen. One
rumor is that the Sheriff has procured
warrants for the arrest of q number of
the more prominent workmen on charges
connected with the battle between the
meu and the Pinkertons.
Such action would please the mei, well.
as it would precipitate the other threat
ered strike as sure as fate and create new
sympathy for them.
SOLDIERS FRATERNIzE WITH THE WORKERS
Aside from these rumors, the 1nevita-
BILE outcome OF long suspense, the siCua-
tion at Homestead is unchanged since
yesterday. The men and the soldiers
have established the closest and most
friendly relations and go about today as
they did yesterday, arm in arm and drink
together over the village bars. The sa-
loon keepers are hustliDg to get supply
of liquors big enough for today.
The soldiers ate most everything eatable
in the borough. too. and the wagons of
the bakers and provision dealers OF Pitts
burg are coming into town with mon
strous loads of eatables today. The SOL
diers were many of them unprovided with
shelter last night, and were permitted to
engage rooms in town, SO that nearly
every house became a small military
camp. But there was not room enough
for all the militiamen, and hundreds of
them had the sky for their roof covering
and slept on the hill sides east of the vii.
lage. with their haversacks for pillows.
They did not mind ii, though, for the
night was hot and sultry,, and besides
these soldiers had a taste of The sort Of
thing at Johnstown at the time of the
flood, when they were stationed there for
six weeks.
A strong provost patrol was on duty in
the town ell night but beyond one or two
ordinary street fights there was no trouble
A common expression among these
soldiers is that they would Law down their
guns rather than obey an order TO fire on
the workmen and this inspires o euriou
sort of confidence among the latter--a
confidence which might lead to disastrous
results in the event of the appearance
here of any large number Of new men to
go TO work in the mills.
STILL EXPECTING PINKERToNs.
The Pinkerion's are Still stalking spec
tres to the workmen, and they are as
ready to believe that hordes of the hated
detectives are coming to Homestead as
they were week ago. In fact they are
brought to this by the Piftsburg news
papers, every one of which seems to be
afflicted with sort of acute Pinkerton