The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-30
WAITING FOR THEIR CHANCE.

Strikers Would Quickly Mob the Mills II
the Soldiers Were Away.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 29.-To-night the
old scenes that were familiar prior to the
advent of the National Guard are being re-
enacted in Homestead. Knots of strikers
are to be encountered everywhere around
the principal streets, discussing the best
and safest means of reaching the non.
union men now in the mills. While much
interest is taken In the discussions, tho
leaders continue to caution the more rad
Were 1t not for the presence of the pro-
visional brigade. however. the fence
around the Carnegie steel plant would not
long separate the union and non-union men,
At the company's Homestead Office this
evening it was announced that forty two
algamated men are at work and that all
told ninety men who went out on the 2sth
of June have applied for and received
their old positions. Early this afternoon
it was rumored that thirty non-union men
were on their way from Indianapolis to
Homestead and that they would reach
PittsDurg this evening A committee was
sent out with instructions to intercept the
men and use ell honorable means to pre-
vent them reaching Homestead, Shortly
after 3 o'clock telegram was received
stating that the DOn-unlonists had all
agreed to return homo tonight.
The report that Hug hO'Donneil had do
serted the locked-out men of Homestead,
aud that he had gone to an Eastern resort
to temperate, Is denied by Hugh Dempsey,
a prominent Knight of Labor, He said:
"ODonnell is now in New York. and you
h,f ha IL rIrIv ,t.h
in the interests of tho workingmen of
Homestead. | am in communication with
him, but am not at liberty to make public
the exact nature of his mission, further
than that he Is arranging dlsagreea bio
surprise for the Carnegie Steel COMPANY"
The strikers at DuQuesne wore paid oft
this afternoon, and fight between John
Bourk and q watchman named Foley al
most precipiteted n riot. Foley's son struck
Bourke In the face. The crowd threatene
to mob Foley, and the deputy sheriffs
wired to Homestead for assistance. The
prompt arrival of the Sheridan troops pre-
vented serious trouble. and the Foleys
were taken away under the protection of
the cavalry. They were held for court.
Since the departure of the large body of
troops the strikers are congregating on the
street and discussIng the fight i'm louder
tones. but 1t Is not probable that they will
munlcip pal affairs as they did. 1t is safe to
soy. however. that non-unlon mon will not
find their way unobstructed.
The second month of the great Home
stead strike opens rather discouraginaly
so far as the locked-out men are concerned
though they do not in the slightest admit
il nor express less confidence i'm ultimate
victory. On juno % two Thousand men
having been locked out. 1900 others struck
out of sympathy, and only n few watch
men were left around the plant, Today
there are about 725 men in the mills, and
the firm claims il has q quantity Of beams
ready for shipment
At meeting of the ad visory committee
to-day there was present q committee from
the Frick coke works In the Connelisyille
region. The visitors told the COMMITTEES
that If the Carnegie company is successful
new men the Frick coke-workers would GO
out. They said the men were fully organ
lied and could stand several months strike.