St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-02
BREAK IN THE RANKS.
A Few of the Locked-Out Men a
Homestead Seek Work in
the Mills.
Potter Says the Company Has
Won, But the Workmen Are
Still Undaunted.

HOMESTEAD, Aug. l. Homestead
striking steel workers ara considerably
agitated tonight They have satisfied
themselves of the correctness of Supt.
Potter's statement that a number of
former employees returned to work to-
day. This evidence OF weakening on
the part of men who have all along
paraded their loyalty to the association,
weakens that organization, and tonight
the streets are filled with strikers dis
cusSing the situation. Provost Mar
shall Mechling, fearing the break
III the ranks of the strikers
would lead to trouble, has doubled the
guard around the mill and in the streets
adjacent thereto. That the backbone of
the strike has been broken is acknowl-
edged by every one save the members
of the advisory committee and the more
radical unionsts.
Tonight Supt. Potter said to re-
porter: altogether sixty of our former
employees have returned to work, and
we have been Informed that many more
will make application for their old
places. Twenty-seven of our old men
came in today. Twenty-four of them
found their places still open, but the
others, l am sorry to say, were disap-
pointed. But, while they cannot step
into the positions they gave up month
ago, these men will be given work.
The influx of uHskilled workmen, Mr..
Potter says, has been so great that to-
day he telegraphed to send no more for
the present.
Workmen Still Undaunted.
That there has been disaffection in
the ranks of the locked-out men was
plainly to be seen, particularly
this evening. by the excited
groups of men denuuncing de-
serters. The Amalgamated men are
apparently nothing daunted, however.
Chairman Crawford said that not only
would there not be further assertions,
but that i'll a day or so some of these
who did go into the mill would recon-
slider their action. All of the twenty
ming when they left the mills for their
homes they were met by committees
who endeavored to get them to promise
not to return. No threats were used.
All of the nOn-union workmen are
now fully armed and Superintendent
Potter declares they will protect them
selves. Everything is quiet today in
the vicinity of Carnegie's Thrty-third
street mill despite the fact that the
company was successful in placing fif-
teen men in the mill. The work Of the
as up to noon they had succeeded in
finishing three sheets of boiler plate.
There is no change in the Duquesne
strike. 1t is reported that notices have
been sent out by the company saying if
all the wOrkmen do not report by this
evening they will stand dismissed. The
Edgar Thompson workmen at BrOddock
Will under no circumstances go ON a
sympathy strike.
More Arrests to Come.
Those who participated in the dis
graceful Homestead riot after the sur
render of the Pinkertons OH July will
be prosecuted for aggravated assault
and battery, highway robbery, larceny,
pocket-picking and other crimes and
misdemeanors. The work of secur-
ing the necessary evidence to con-
Wet those engaged III the assaults on
the Pinkertons and the robbery of
the surrendered men has been going on
for some time, and it is now so far adj
vanced that intormations will be made
in few days and the persons arrested.
Among them are several women, who
were particularly active and aggressive
during the time the men ran the gaunt
let, and after it in taking the property
of the men and hiding it. AS
sault and battery and receiving
stolen goods will be the charges against
these women. Mollick, the Long Branch
anarchist, will have a hearing tomor-
row, and, unless more evidence is dis
covered in the meantime, will be re-
leased. There were no arrests or in
formations made today against the
Homestead rioters CT anarchists.