Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-02
THE MILL TO START.
What Chairman Frick Promised the
Beaver Falls Business Men.
NAMES TAKEN OFF TIE PETITION.
Workers to Pc Hired as Individuals, Not
as Members of Union.
MONEY FOR HOMESTEAD FROM MUyCIE

A press dispatch last evening stated that
the committee of citizens who took the Pc
tition of Beaver Falls business men to the
Carnegie Company in Pittsburg say that
they were assured the mills would be
started at the company's earliest con-
venience. Both Mr.. Frick and Mr.. Dillon
are responsible for the statement that the
plan is to operate the mills to the limit of
their capacity when they do resume, and
to make big improvements in the plant Mr..
Dillon will 60 to Beaver Falls on Thursday
or Friday of this week, and post up notices
stating when the mills will resume opera
tions. Engineering experts say, however,
that the salt water in the Beaver, at the
present low stage of the river, will efectu-
ally preclued start right away; and that
SO long as the discharges from the oil wells
continue the salt water will hinder steam
ing with the Beaver river water at all
stages. In time of flood the difficulty may
not prevent the use of the water for this
purpose, but with things as they now are it
will cause trouble nine months in the
twelve.
The Strikers Keep Their Secrets.
Several of the business men who signed
the petition to the Carnegie Company have
asked to have their names taken off the list,
giving as o reason that at the time they
signed they did not fully understand the
import of the paper The strikers gave no
sign to the general public as to what they
propose doing. It Is an open secret, how
ever, that they are not unanimously in favor
of standing out to the extent of compelling
the company to fill the mills with nom
union men. When asked as to their pur-
poses they give the answer that they are out
to stay until their demands are conceded.
If this is the case, then the Carnegie mills
at Beaver Falls will be running with nom
union men within month. There is good
authority for the statement that when
the notices are posted they will say, in ad-
dition to an announcement of when the
mills will be opened, tina. the company will
have no further dealing with members of
the Amalgamated Association as such: that
they will re-employ most of their old hands
if the men choose to make their own labor
contracts, without reference to any labor
union. The additional clause that the
company will not presume to inquire
whether men so acting as individuals are or
are not members OF the Amalgamaied AS
sociation will have no significance in that
or any other community where the situa-
tion is we'll understood, as it means moth
The members of the Amalgama.ed Asso-
citation must fight for the right to make
their contracts as such members, or else stop
fighting these so-called labor battles alto
gether.
No Troops for Homestead.
A telegram from Harrisburg last evening
stated that Adjutant General Greenland
says the Governor is not preparing to place
Homestead under martial law again.
Last night at Muncie, Ind, John Gala
CHER, Vice President for the Eighth dis
trict of the Amalgamated Association,