The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . oldest boiler, if heso desires, shall have the preference of the furnace so heats of a turn were designated, as were the weights of thevarious charges constituting a heat. The product per workerwas limited; the proportion of scrap that might be used inrunning a furnace was fixed; the quality of pig-iron was stated;the puddlers use of brick and fire clay was forbidden, with ex-ceptions ; the labor of assistants was defined; the teaching ofother workmen was prohibited; nor might one man lend histools to another
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . oldest boiler, if heso desires, shall have the preference of the furnace so heats of a turn were designated, as were the weights of thevarious charges constituting a heat. The product per workerwas limited; the proportion of scrap that might be used inrunning a furnace was fixed; the quality of pig-iron was stated;the puddlers use of brick and fire clay was forbidden, with ex-ceptions ; the labor of assistants was defined; the teaching ofother workmen was prohibited; nor might one man lend histools to another except as provided for. And under similarirksome regulations the Carnegie managers conducted theirbusiness for three years, losing money on almost every ton ofingots, blooms, and billets turned out. During this time someof the men earned from $\2 to $15 a day; and Homestead be-came familiar with the sight of steel-workers being driven tothe mill in their carriages. Thus did their lot become comparable to that of an heir to the peerage. CHAPTER XIV THE HOMESTEAD BATTLE. Strikers arresting a news-paper correspondent.—From Harpers Weekly. THE chagrin experienced by AndrewCarnegie at the unsatisfactory outcomeof his plans in 1889 was forcibly ex-pressed in many of his characteristicletters to Pittsburg during the three-year term of the agreement with theAmalgamated Association ; and asthe time approached for its revisionmeasures were taken to avoid a repeti-tion of the former fiasco. What thesewere may now be frankly injudicious attempts of Mr. Carnegies literary friendsto deprive him of his proper share of the honor or responsibil-ity of planning the discomfitfure of the Amalgamated Associa-tion, joined to his own modest disclaimers, have led to muchmystification in the public mind concerning his real positionin the matter. It is time to let in the light on this much-debated question. On April 4th, 1892, nearly three months before the expira-tion of the agreement wit
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