The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . nd saloons, where they sat on barrels orstood at bars listening tothe workmens talk. Theysought lodgings in the town,and talked with wives andmothers; and the gossipthus picked up was sent toNew York, where AndrewCarnegie read it surroundedby the humanitarian textsand quaint heraldic devicesin honor of the toiler withwhich he had covered his library walls. Then he planned astrenuous campaign for his partners, and went to Scotland. The result was very much as if Napoleon had attemptedthe conquest of the Rhine provinces fr
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . nd saloons, where they sat on barrels orstood at bars listening tothe workmens talk. Theysought lodgings in the town,and talked with wives andmothers; and the gossipthus picked up was sent toNew York, where AndrewCarnegie read it surroundedby the humanitarian textsand quaint heraldic devicesin honor of the toiler withwhich he had covered his library walls. Then he planned astrenuous campaign for his partners, and went to Scotland. The result was very much as if Napoleon had attemptedthe conquest of the Rhine provinces from Josephines bower inthe Tuileries. A hundred or more deputy sheriffs, picked offthe streets of Pittsburg, went up to Homestead, where theywere met by the strikers, relieved of their maces, caps, and coats,and sent back home. And this was the comedy out of whichgrew the tragedy of Homestead. Henry Clay Frick was not yet in full control; and the work-men interpreted the weakness and vacillation of the companyas fresh expressions of the benevolent theories of the little. A detective. DEPrrV SlIERIlI-S ROUTED 201 boss. The discomfiture of the deputy sheriffs was followedby a conference with the leaders of the strikers union, theAmalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of theUnited States, and again the firm received a defeat. , who conducted the negotiations for the Carnegies, pro-claimed that both sides are victors, and both sides are proba-bly vanquished in minute details. The principle of the slidingscale was accepted by the men ; but instead of a monthly adjust-ment of prices, as the Carnegies first demanded, the rate wasfixed for six months, and the average price of said six monthsshall be the basis upon which wages shall be paid for the nextthree months, the rate to change every three months thereafterbased upon the average price of the preceding three excellent rule was nullified by numerous exceptions, whichled to constant bickerings and dispu
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