Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
SCORING THE JUDGE.
William Wall Amends His Remarks
by Singing Out Jurist.
OTHER INFLAMMATORY SPEECHES
Made at Large Mass Meeting Of the
Strikers at Homestead.
SOLDIERS MAY STAY FOR MANY MONTHS

The Amalgamated Association held a well
attended meeting in the rink at Homestead
Yesterday afternoon. Acting Chairman OF
the Advisory Board, Thomas Crawford,
presided.
W. j. Dillon, President of the Flint
Glass Workers Association, was the first
speaker. In the course of his speech he
said: "Ihis is contest between labor and
capital that will prove of great moment to
workmen in the future. The workmen cannot
be held responsible for this outbreak. 1t is
simply the result of the oppression of cap
itaL Employers cannot get along without
men, but these men must look out for their
rights To Judge from reports there have
been II, 900 non-union men taken into that
mill since this strike began. Troops
are not needed to keep the peace
here, and I believe the citizens of
/ Home stead should call mass meeting to
protest to the Governor against keeping
them here any longer. Contributions are
coming in freely, and the strikers are in
better condition to keep up this fight than
ever before.
William Wall Singles Out One Judge.
William Wall, when he arose to speak,
said: 81 wish to correct statement made
by me some time ago from this platform,
in which charged the Court with
being suborned by capital. want to have
it understood that 1 did not refer to the
courts in general but to Judge Magee per-
sonally, and repeat here that he will not
render just verdict" His remarks were
confined to the denunciation of all the Car
nege officials and the public press.
of ~,
versalist Church in Allegheny, said: 81
believe man should think for himself and
not be afraid to express his own opinions.
1 have always been in sympathy with
workmen. Every honest man is in
sympathy with the Homestead strikers.
''H. c. Frick is the arch devil who has
caused all this trouble. I wish L had him
here to talk to him for IN hour. The
militia is against the interests of the work
ingman, and they should not join its ranks
I believe in law and order, but not such as we
have in Pittsburg. There we have Law
and Order Society that will hardly allow
you to attend church on Sunday. I do not
believe in such an organization. 1t was an
institution like this that condemned Christ
to DEATH" He wound up by ringing
charges on everyone and everything con-
nected with the present strike, and pre-
dlcted success for the locked-out men.
Doing Missionary Work.
The other speakers were: William Shee-
han, Vice President of Amalgamated As
sociation; Michael Sotak and N Moose, of
New York City. The last speaker is Sec
retary of the American International
Workmen's Union. He was working in
the interests of his organization, and
said he had already induced 40 men
from the mechanical department to join,
II
men are not members of the Amalgamated |
Association, but have been striking in SYM
pathy with the other men from the mills.
New hope was infused into the locked |
out men yesterday on the receipt of their |
first benefits from the association. Nearly |
So 600 was received in Homestead. This |
was distributed among the members of the |
Amalgamated Association. Heretofore all |
contributions have been received from |
private sources. Hereafter regular weekly |
benefits will be received. Each member |
will receive from S4 to SO week, as the |
two months of striking necessary to re- |
ceive help from the association was up last |
Thursday, and from this on help will be |
assured.
A pathetic story is connected with Will
lam Taylor, young mill worker, who died |
here Wednesday of typhoid fever, con- |
tracted in the mill. He came from Balti- /
more, where he had been studying to be- |
come dentist. He had completed one |
years study when his FUNDS ran low, and |
came to Homestead, induced by the large |
wage paid the mill workers He was
married and had one child, and was living |
in a company house on the hill above the |
works After his death the household |
goods, clothes, bedding, and everything |
were burned. to prevent the disease from |
spreading. Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Curry |
then gave the widow a wardrobe of four |
complete outfits, raised purse of $500 for |
her, and sent her back to her home in Balti- |
more. |
A Small Riot at Munhan
Superintendent Newton. of the Coal and |
Iron Police, was hastily summoned to Mum |
hall station last evening. He took five |
officers with him and hastened to the scene |
OF action. When he arrived he found about |
300 strikers in crowd and a small sized |
riot IN full swing. The disturbance
was caused by a non-union man moving his !
family into house short distance from |
the station. The strikers had collected |
around the wagon. and were annoying and |
abusing him in every possible way. On |
the approach of the officers the crowd dis
persed.
The superintendent remained on the
ground for some time. Feeling sure no
the mill, but left two officers to guard the |
house so as to insure its occupants against
further violence.
For some time the locked out men have |
been trying to induce the restaurant keep
ers to refuse to give non-union men /
meals. Finding that they could not