The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-16
NON UNIONISTS AT WORK
The Carnegie Steel Works
Starting Under Mill
tary Guard.
PROVISION FOR THE sOABs.
Sickness Among the Soldiers-The
Armament of the
Strikers.

HOMESTEAD. Pc. July 1e, 1s92.-Mat
ters are assuming more definite shape.
Each of the 100 foremen in the Carnegie
mills received notice last evening
ordering him to report for duty on Mon
day morning. The same sort of notice
was received by the workmen in the
mechanical department today. It read as
follows:
The CARNEGIE STEEL COMPANY IIMIrRp)
HOMESTEAD STEEL WORKS, July Is, 1892.
DEAR SIR:-Repairs will be resumed on Mon
day morning, July. IS. 1892. We write you to
return to your old position. Work to COM
menee at the usual time. Respectfully,
j. A. POTTER, General superintendent.
The men laughed bi rterly when they
opened the envelopes containing these in
vitations. They VOW that not a man will
respond on Monday morning. One of the
foremen, Alfred Hubbard. of the armer
plate mill. inclosed his notice in another
envelope, together with letter of resig-
nation.
Speaking OF the situation, Foreman
Hub bard said today
81 do not believe Mr. Potter realizes the
monumental size of the job he is under
taking. do not believe he will get a
corporaps guard TO go to work on
Monday. / told him in my letter
of resignation that could not and
would not undertake to run my depart
ment with unskillea men. 1t is the most
difficult work in the mills, and ! do not
believe they will be able to do 1t without
the old men. While retained my place
In the employ of the firm l held my
tongue, but am free now and say what
I ha ma hn1 mt Fy1arr will
eventually bring the firm to terms.
The plan of managers is to open the
shops on Monday morning and treat
with as many of the men as apply for
work. When they have got in all of the
men that will return will know how
many outsiders they need and then you
may look for all influx OF black Sheep
They will come about Wednesday,, and
then look out for trouble"
The notice given above has been re-
ceived by about 1900 Of che men, and
diligent inquiry among them has failed
to find one who will 90 to work. The
guards has been doubled at various points
about the works snf al5f
PREPARATIONS TO OPEN THE WORKS.
Preparations are quietly going on in
side the Carnegie works for resunaine
operations on Monday. But this has
caused no disturbance In the borough,
which is still as quiet as a churehyafd.
Smoke rises from several ehimneys in
side the barricade fence, but the soldiers
who have been on guard duty inside say
that there are no workmep there, and
that the fires have been started FOR the
use of repairers.
There are no stronger signs Of resump-
ton. and the statement that woFK will
not be resumed before Monday is made
by General Snowden himself. M
Rain last night c!eansed the open sewers
that disgrace this village. It is q wonder
TnQi6anfa
typhoid fever epidemic, for the air these
red hot days is fetid with the thick odors
of uncovered sewage.
TWO HUNDREDMILITIAMENo ON THE SICK LIST.
There was sensational story aftOab
last night that some OF the soldiers had
been poisoned through the inefectacsion
of drugs into the provisions and meat
purchased in Homestead. Investigation
at the camp this morning showed that
the camp this morning showed that the
story had no better foundation thsn the
fact that the miserable water obtainable
here has affected the men badly, move
than TWO hundred of them being on bho
sick list with bowel complaint.
The Sixteenth Regiment is detailed as
Provost Marshal's guard for today and
the military occupation of the town goes
on as it has for the past two days.
STUDYING THE STRIKERS ARMAMENT.
General Snowden's headquarters staff
officers have been making quiet In
vestigation into the actual armament
of the strikers. 1t Is believed that /
there are In Homestead about ao00 guns
of all sorts. including shetguas. old |
army muskets. sporting rifles and Win
chesters, which belong to the Inen,. and
which cannot. save in actual hestEtsies,
be taken away from them. Besi6AsGheee
are the captured Pinkerton rifles and q
great many revolvers Of all patterns.
Ammunition is much more scarce. it Is
hA1i fhoV YAaAfAf 10
ference in calibre between the Pinkerton
guns and the others, which makes many
OF the cartridges unavailable. An alnRa
ing fact is that much of the ammupition
is manifestly the properly of the United
States Government.
PROVISIONS AND BEDDING.
Late last night barge loaded with pro-
visions and costs sufficient for a fairly
large number Of men. anchored on the
shore of the yard just below the Pemickey
Railroad trestle, and within few hum
dred yards Of the spot on which was
fought the memorable battle of last week.
All the provisions and cots are now stored
in one of the main storhouses near by.
| Furthermore, number of men, fifty at
least. exclusive of the regular watchnfeu,
are now quartered in the yards. Whether
| or not they are non-unfon m6n it is i'm
| possible to say, as no manner Of pass will
enable one to enter the gates or even get
| by the triple line of pickets which encir-
| Gle the plant.
| An advertisement which ap-
peared in the Pittsbprg morn
| ing papers excites much interest
among the men of Homestead. It calls
| for bids for the work of building 106
houses in this borough aud is signed by
II. C. Fr1ck. 1t shows that the company
has been preparing for mouths for this
trouble with the men, and that it is their
determination to make the hqht to the
hhish New streets have been laid out in
and the new men will be hsused IN new
structures as soon as they can be built.