The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-15
STRIKE RIOTING
 AND DYNAMITE
Threats Made Against Plant of Pressed Steel Car
 Company Today.
STATE POLICE ON GUARD
Special from United Press.)

1 S.J Pittsburg. July 15.-Threats to us | dynamite on the plant of the Pressed
 Steel Car Company were made by the | striking foreign car workers at Scho | enville this afternoon. The State Con stabulary are on guard and is break ing up all assemblages ofs strikers Alarm is felt over the dynamitinf | threats as well as over the discovery of a plan to invade a brewery neal the scene of the disturbances. If the foreigners become intoxicated their ex cesses will be doubled and in any event it is almost certain that there will be further rioting and fighting be- fore the situation is adjusted.
 Proposed attempts to search houses of the foreigners for dynamite and
 firearms this afternoon is likely to
 precipttate more trouble. The only
 violence of any consequence to occur
 to-day occurred shortly before noon
 when some four thousand strikers\and
 the state police clashed at GeoEge
 street and Nicholl avenue. The str1k-
 CTS threw bricks at the mounted police
 and the troopers fired a half dozen
 shots over the heads of the strikers.
 Six strikers were placed under arrest.
 The trouble started when the strik-
 CTS came down from Indian Mound.
 where they held a mass meeting. As
 
 street the police attempted to disperse
 the foreigners. The latter threw bricks
 and stones at the constabulary.
 The mounted policemen then drew
 their rifles and fired over the heads of the strikers. The firing of the shots
 broke the stand taken by the strikers.
 The strikers then formed their ranks
 again and marked along George street to Helen street where they made second stand. Bricks and stones were 1od at members of the constabulary drew their rifles and fired over the heads of the strikers The strikers broke ground and ran. The mounted police men followed and placed six of the strikers under arrest.
 Several of the members of the con- sta bulary were struck by stones but they were not seriously injured. Ale though everything is reported quiet this afternoon McKeesrocks and Scho- ominous silence on all sides IS be- lieved to precede a fresh outbreak of disorder At least 25 more members of the state constabulary are expected to arrive this afternoon.
 At ten o'clock this morning the re- port reached the state constabulary that one of the state troops had been dragged from his horse in the lower portion of the city and badly beaten. This report could not be confirmed and half a dozen state troopers were hurried to the scene with orders to rescue their comrade from the strik- CTS who are said to have locked the man in a vacant house after relieving him of his revolver and mace.
 By order of Sheriff Gumbert saloons at McKeesrocks and Schoonville were closed. This morning Director of Public Safety Morin received orders to to order a detail of Pittsburg police to go to the scene of the riot IS more violence was expected later n the day. Director Morin said he aad no authority to send any men outside of the city lines.
 The state constabulary had it's first dash shortly before ten o'clock this with the rioting strikers. While one of the troopers was att :empting to disperse a. crowd which lad collected at the foot of Ohio St., Preston a big foreigner, refused to move when ordered and the trooper breed his horse up against him. Strikers rushed to the foreigners as distance and the trooper was soon dis and showered with bricks md other missiles. The trooper would have been badly used had not other troopers forced the strikers to iisperse.
 Shortly after 10 a meeting of strik- ITS was held in the lower portion of All of the speeches were made in foreign languages. It vas still in progress at Il o'clock. l dore trouble is feared when the meet | ng adjourns.
 New York, July 15.-F. N. Hoffstot, | president of the Pressed Steel Car Com | oany said to-day that reports of the | ,ouses of the trouble at McKeesrocks | were greatly exaggerated. "There has | been no strike,'' said Hoffstot, t'there | S no strike and no strike breakers | nave been brought in or are being | in to the works. The trouble | lrose because few hundred of the employees objected to a few rules and | 'egulations and after these men were dismissed they were so incensed be- ,ause they had lost their jobs they in erfered with other employees, assemb- ing at the works yesterday at noon The objection was to the price system which no good workman ever objected O and always made high wages"
 HoHstot said he anticipated no fur her trouble.