The Washington herald., 1909-07-20

Pittsburg, Pa. July 19-Enort on the
part of the Pressed Steel Car Company
TO start it's mills at McKees Rocks to-
day met with but poor success. only 200
skilled wOrkmen who had been forced
out OF the mills by the thousands Of un-
skilled men leaving, returned and spent
the day in the mill.
No effort was made TO molest these
workmen as they came and went. for the
strike leaders counseled that they would
not be able to do any work. The mill
owners did not attempt TO run in strike
breakers.
It is thought that an assault on the
part OF strikers about 4 q m showed
the hazard Of any such move at present
At this hour several hundred strikers
rushed one Of the mill gates. which went
down before them as IL il had been made
Of thin boards The strikers, with clubs
and more deadly weapons. marched
through the entire mill looking for strike
breakers. None could be found. There
were a few foreign fire tenders keeping
the furnace going.
Statement Is Issued.
Tonight President Huff, OF the Pressed
Steel Car Company, said:
1T is none Of the public's business how
many men we had in the mill to-day. The
mills arc now open for the return OF the
wOrkmen-all save the original SEQ trouble
makers. and II those who have gone out
with them do not return very quickly we
VIII get men who win run. the mills If
this makes trouble. then trouble must
come. We must run those mills, and
will"
Baron Julius Beornaniza, the Hunga-
rian consul at Pittsburg this afternoon
announced that his three assistants, act
ing on his orders. have looked into strike
matters and that he would take the re-
port 70 Washington az once and lay It be-
fore Secretary OF State Knox, and. II
possible, he would also call the attention
OF President Taft TO what he alleges is
bad treatment OF wOrkmen, which. In
cluded many Hungarians at the McKees
Rocks plant
Says WOrkmen Are Robbed.
Aside from what the baron calls the
robbery Of the workmen. he declares the
reports OF indifference regarding human
lie at the mills have not been overdrawn.
( Beornaniza says he was about ready 70
State Department when the strike was
declared, one Of his own men having
been at work at the big plant under an
assumed name. The consulate reports
that the men really had 20 pay for their
positions in the mills.
To-day the strikers made reply in the
courts OF Allegheny County 10 the re
quest made by the public defense asso-
citation that courts take the McKees
Rocks case out Of the hands OF the COM
pany officials and the workmen as well
The strikers deny that they have made
any trouble Of themselves. and say that
all trouble made thus for has been by
or over the State constabulary To
morrow is the time set for hearing argu-
ments in the injunction asked against
Hoffstot and others to enjoin them from
attempting to run the mills at present.
The association declares that there is
danger OF bloodshed and loss Of life and
that il should be stopped.
Many Injured I'm Riots.
The Public Defense Association is pre-
pared 10 combat the testimony Of both
sides, which is in effect that persons
have been seriously injured.
The association says 1t win show that
forty-eight workmen have not been able
TO leave their homes since they were
in gun battles with the constabulary and
that many OF them will die OF their
wounds In this assertion the association
viii be backed up by the Hungarian con-
sui. who admits tonight that he will ask
his government TO demand payment for
the injuries Of some Hungarian subjects.
The only clash OF the day between
strikers ard the authorities came this
afternoon. when a meeting was being
held outside the works and a petition
was circulated requesting the governor
TO withdraw the State constabulary.
A body OF troops rode into the crowd
while this petition was being passed
around. and getting the paper. tore II up.
This made trouble, and the constabulary
were compelled to draw guns as the
strikers threw rocks until other bodies
OF mounted officers came up and assisted
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