CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRST BREAK.

More Prosecutions--The Soldiers Withdraw--A Non-Union Hotel Dynamited--Homestead Figures in Parades and Gives a Democratic Majority--Slavs Weakening--The _Local News_ Predicts Defeat--Gompers Again--Sheriff McCleary is Harassed and Increases His Corps of Deputies--Lawyer Jones in Trouble--Schwab Succeeds Potter as Superintendent--Homestead's Last Riot--Striker Roberts Hints at Defeat--Mechanics and Laborers Go Back to Work 209-225