The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-27
lndnstry 10 ParaIyxed and Although
No Serious Trouble Has oc-
CURED, Precautions
Arc Taken.
THREE MEN DISCHARGED
Trouble All Started From the ctreu-
iatins OF Petition Asking
That Wages be Re-
adjusted.

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PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov 27.--Op-
erations in the Edgar Thomson plant
at Braddock and the Homestead plant
OF the Carnegie were still tied up By
the strike OF the trainmen. There
was no serious trouble. but the COM
pany was making preparations for a
possible clash and a string Of freight
cars was drawn about the Homestead
mill, presumably as q bulwark In
case OF serious alterations between
the strikers and the company The
riots Of 1892 have not been forgotten.
Although the company yesterday
agreed to raise the plants trainmen's
wages 80 as to equal the pay OF the
union railroad employees. and offered
other concessions, it refused to rein
state the three employees discharged
for circulating petitions in connec-
tion with the strike.
Messages were sent to the men
telling them their jobs were ready for
them this morning, but the men an
nounced they would hold meeting at
ten o'clock and later meet with COM
pany officials again to talk over the
matter Of re-instating the four dis
charged employees.
! Boiler-makers in the Edgar Thorn
son works ere sslzed osrnn locono-
tfves within the plant. They re-
fused but were not discharged.
Charges that carload of strike
ibreakers were taken into the plants OF
the big steel works at Homestead and
Braddock today we're made by the
strikers but officials Of the company
yehemently deny this.
| I. was also said that the steel
company was placing cots in the
physical laboratories.
| nxtra guards were posted today In
advantag eous positions around the
mills, SO as to be prepared for any
emergency. This with the loaded
freight cars forms formidable but
war-like bulwark In case of trouble.
In lengthy statement issued by
the strikers today, their grievances
are outlined The men are In de-
/ termined mood and declare they VIII
not give in until the three men dis
charged for circulating petitions ask
/ ing for re-adjustment OF wages are
re-instated The company likewise Is
determined not to give in.
The tie-up is complete in the Dig
steel corporation plants. Only four
engines out Of thirty-five within the
Homestead plant were moving today.
The striking trainmen's statement
as drawn up by a committee from the
various mills concerned, Is as follows:
4 ron Friday afternoon, Nov. 90. J..
/ c. LawIer, OF the Homestead Steel
works, discharged Harry Allshouse.
an assistant trainmaster, apparently
without cause. He was tod that he
was sleeping on duty, when as mat
ter Of fact they could not give date
for this alleged infraction OF the laws
4 governing the work. The man had a
petition circulated sometime previous
to this in which it was required that a
/ wage scale be given consideration,
and several men from the transporta-
ton department were instrumental in
having this petition circulated, among
them Allshouse. His discharge fol-
lowed as soon as the company off,
cials learned that he was one of the
leaders,.
''The men worked until g O'clock