The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-11
STRIKE OF COOKS AND WATERS.

Seventy Leave the Carnegie-Works at Home
stead-Pood Contractor Arrested.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
HOMESTEAD Pa, Aug. 10.-Seventy cooks
and walters came out of the Carnegie steel
works this evening. As they marched
down Eighth avenue the deserters were
cheered by the strikers their wives and
children. The trouble began In the mill this
morning when j. A. Ray burn. who entered
into contract with the company several
weeks ago to furnish meals for three hun
dred men. became involved In q dispute
with another contractor in the same line Of
business. superintendent Potter was
called on to act as arbitrator. He decided
against Ray burn. whereupon the latter de-
clded to throw mp his contract. While
making ont his accounts in the dining
hall Rsyburn was waited on by
five mem bers of the Carnegie SPECIAL
police force. under command of Captain
Newton. The latter ordered Rayburn TO
leave the place. but he refused TO comply.
The officers then placed HIM under arrest
and conducted him to q little brick build
ing on the river bank. where they locked
him up. He was kept a prisoner for over
two hours. In the meantime the sew
enty-two walters and cooks employed
by Ray burn, learninx what had taken
place, Quit work and marched out. After
paying off his mon Ray burn went TO RAM
Squire Gulick against special officers
Newton, Powers. Smith and two 9TH
ers for assault and battery and
false arrest. Constables Stewart
and .Gingher soon bad the five
permitted to depart after promising to ap-
pear for q hearing tomorrow morning.
The other four were taken before Squire
Glnnt. gwen a preliminary hearing, and.
in default of bail, were committed to tho
Pittsburg jail.
Tonight the strikers are jubllant. being
under the impression that the departure OF
so many cooks and walters will be serious
blow TO the company; bat Superintendent
Potter says the places of the men who left
to-day can be filed inside of twenty four
hours. Nearly one hundred new men. the
greater part of them being machinists and
practical steel-workers, came to the WORKS
to-day. Inside the mill tonight every
thing seems to be running smoothly, and
the superintendent reiterates the statement
that the work being done by the non union
lists il perfectly satisfactory. and that so
far as the firm is concerned the strike 10 q
thing of the past.
A non-union man who left the mill this
evening said: Il do not think there are
over ESQ Zen now at work for the Carnegie
Steel Company" He further said that over
four hundred men have deserted since last
who came out this afternoon. At the ad-
visory committee meeting the treasurer re-
ported the men who came from the works
to-day had contributed $40 to tho relief
fund.
Non-Union workmen Assaulted.
PITTsBURG. Aug. 10.-John Reams, non-
union workman employed in the upper
Union mill. was assaulted by two men
while on his way TO work this morning and
badly beaten. His assailants we're
arrested and taken to the sta
tion house, where they were
recognized as Edward thinner, q striker.
and Thomas Connors. former employe.
Ream's injuries are painful. but not dam
gerous. This Is tho first trouble since the
beginning or the strike at the Union millA
Threatened by Anonymous Letters.
PITTsBURG. Aug 10.-ln Alderman Mo-
Mas,ers's mail yesterday was an anonymous
letter, which had been posted in New York
at noon Monday. Theletter was written in
crsmped and pushed hand. probably dis
guiscd. 1t read Some time this week q
party of men will leave here. and will try
TO kill you and Superintendent Friek
again" Alderman McMasters has been il