<P> The company had waged a second front in state court, and was winning . On July 18, 16 of the strike leaders were charged with conspiracy, riot and murder . Each man was jailed for one night and forced to post a $10,000 bond . </P> <P> The union retaliated by charging company executives with murder as well . The company men, too, had to post a $10,000 bond, but they were not forced to spend any time in jail . One judge issued treason charges against the Advisory Committee on August 30 for making itself the law . Most of the men could not raise the bail bond, and went to jail or into hiding . A compromise was reached whereby both sides dropped their charges . </P> <P> Support for the strikers evaporated . The AFL refused to call for a boycott of Carnegie products in September 1892 . Wholesale crossing of the picket line occurred, first among Eastern European immigrants and then among all workers . The strike had collapsed so much that the state militia pulled out on October 13, ending the 95 - day occupation . The AA was nearly bankrupted by the job action . Weekly Union relief for a member averaged $6.25 but totalled a staggering $10,000 per week when including 1,600 strikers . With only 192 out of more than 3,800 strikers in attendance, the Homestead chapter of the AA voted, 101 to 91, to return to work on November 20, 1892 . </P> <P> In the end, only four workers were ever tried on the actual charges filed on July 18 . Three AA members were found innocent of all charges . Hugh Dempsey, the leader of the local Knights of Labor District Assembly, was found guilty of conspiring to poison nonunion workers at the plant--despite the state's star witness recanting his testimony on the stand . Dempsey served a seven - year prison term . In February 1893, Knox and the union agreed to drop the charges filed against one another, and no further prosecutions emerged from the events at Homestead . </P>

What happened after the workers were locked out of the mill