The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-07-22
START AT HOMESTEAD.
The Company Has About One Hun
dred end Fifty Men.
Peculiar Methods OF the AEauagsment 70
Force sIsn TO sVorI--Fropossd Esduo-
tIon of the Military Negroes Ar
rive In squads.

PITrsBUReH. Pa, July 2O.-An Asso-
Ciated press representative made a tour
Of the Homestead steel mills, being the
only newspaper man who has succeeded
in gaining admission behind the now
famous fence which surrounds the com
pany's property.
He found bout 80 men at work, most
of them new employees
-Four furnaces in the armor plate de
paEtmeut were charged yesterday aud
a complete resumption in this depart
ment viii take place to-day. The melt
/ ing department has been fred up, but
it viii take seven days to get this branch
of the mill running agaiu.
The open hearth departments Nos 1
and ., the mechanical department and
the arnor plate departments were all
being worked, but in a desultoT.y way.
The assistant superintendent said
| that a number Of men had applied for
| employment yesterday and that he eN-
/ pected quite a number Of such appliCa-
| tiOns to-day. This official stated that
/ the company had up to this time been
/ unable to secure enough mechanics to
/ complete the necessary repairs so they
started the works without them He is
/ confident that for the mill to resume
! operations successfully for a day or
/ two many of the former employees would
return to their old positions
large number OF cOlored men ar
| rived in Pittsburgh yesterday and visit
/ ed Mr. Ericz in squads They carried
satchels and were evidently strangers
in the city. Their ultimate destination
! is supposed to be Homestead, but up to
last night they had not been seen there.
1t is quite probable that the force Of
the national guard on duty at Home
stead will be reduced within week
| should there be no further breach OF
the peace the Third brigade viii likely
be ordered home by the end of this
week This brigade comes from the
/ central portion of the state and the
Second brigade, W hich is made up Of
{ regiments in Allegheny and adjoining
counties, viii be kept at Homestead for
some time, until the authorities feel as
sured that its withdrawal would be
followed by no law breaking.
! The meeting of the advisory commit
tee at Homestead yesterday resulted in
/ charges being given out that the Car
I uegie managers are resorting to pc
culiar methods to force men to work
I The cases OF James Close and another
man were cited, in which 1t Is alleged
success was achieved by threats to inn
pIicate relatives in the pending
legal proceedings. Clark Richard
& Co, Of Pittsburgh, were re-
ported as advertising for carpsn-
ters, and when applicants for
work appeared asking them to go to
Homestead to build hunks aud sheds
for uon-uniOuists in the mills. Another
matter which reached the advisory
committee was the report of the dis
charge last night OF three vvOrkmen at
the mills because of suspicion that the
trio were keeping the strikers posted
on the condition of affairs inside. The
contributions received to-day for the
benefit of the Iaborers made idly by the
strike, but who are not members Of the
| Amalgamated association, amounted tc
] sIO6,
The organization of the vOrlzmeu en-
pIoyed at the Duquesne steel works oi
? the Carnegie Steel Co. into the Anal
/ gamated association lodges has not yet
5 been completed but the officers of the
f association are hopeful that it soon
/ will be. Vice President Carney, of the
t Amalgamatsd association, in an inter
t view said;
: eve have made proposition to tht
3 / men at the Duquesne steel works en-
I coGraging organization. This same
= course was taken at BraddOclz. We in
/ formed them that we are ready to or
? ganize them free of all charges anC
, promise them the entire support OF the
p Amalgamatsd association and tn,
S American Federation of Labor, Whici
p two organizations number over 1, 600, OOl
, men We are to give them free caro-
3 for one year. placing them on a par witt
the homestead ana al oLAoE OEBALlA11
tions employed by the Carnegie hrIu-
= step of this character would never havt
, been taken had It not been for the hos
a tile disposition of the head of the Car
negie firm in refusing to allow the scalI
/ to expire on the same date as he signeC
2 and agreed that it should expire in tn,
I Twenty-ninth and Thigty-thiFd anC
1 / Beaver Falls mills. Had Mr.. EriCk &C
D cePted the proposition of the Home
{ stead men to have the scale expire tn
last of June instead of the last OF De
cember, nothing further would hav
/ been asked by the men They yvOul
r have gone to work at q big reduction il
I wages