Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-24
Starvation with Winter Coming On
WIVES AND CHILDREN OF sTRIk-
 FRS GRASP SITUATION.
WoRKMER NO LONGER WANTED
Company Can Do Without Them Strikers Seem Awed and Gloomy SehoenvilIe Plant in Operation.

Pittsburg, Aug. 23.--Three columns of smoke fioated lazily from the chim- neys of the Pressed Steel Car com pany's plant in Schoenville tonight. These mute signals told better than official pronunciamento that the Strik- ing employees of the car plant have yet to wait long to win their fight against the car company officials, for the plant was still in operation despite the wild efforts of infuriated mobs to scare off the imported workmen during the past twenty-four hours.
 Strikers Realize the Situation.
 Tonight the striking men realized for the first time that their jobs were no more, that the company could do with out them, and that they no longer were wanted within the big gates of the car plant The women and children of the strikers grasped the situation as soon as the men and the idea of starvation and eviction with winter coming on caused walls of anguish in many a strikers cottage.
 Additional Troopers Arrive.
 Forty state police are on their way here tonight to augment the company of mounted constables now on duty at the car plant. Since last nights car mage these fearless cavalrymen have evinced a desire to strike fear into the hearts of the men who took their conn rades' lives. The strikers realize that the mounted troopers are more than a match for them. Yet all during the day these troopers have been sub- jected to abuse from house windows and doors whenever they chanced to pass a strike sympathizer's home. In retaliation not a striker or .sympathizer left his doorstep today but he was halt ed and searched. Besides the search ing the troopers insisted on examining the bodies of the strikers and if they clubbed they were promptly arrested, for the troopers considered such evil dence proof that the men had partici pated in last nights rioting.
 Arrested Men in Box Car Jails.
 The strikers wives were viewed with disfavor by the troopers today. Sever al of them, carrying large baskets, were made to turn over the contents so that they might be carrying nothing contra band into the houses.
 Twenty-Five men were arrested and put into the box car jails by nightfall. The men who resisted were manacled to the troopers horses and dragged through the streets to the plants en- trance
 Troopers Order Bells to Be Silent.
 AI HOOH the great Dell or LIle Sdln- olic cathedral at McKees Rocks began ringing. This was kept up for two hours and then the bells were ordered silent by state troopers, because, it was pointed out, such demonstration at the present time only went toward agitating the strikers.
 Funeral of Victims Today.
 Today strikers wives besiezed Lieu tenant Smith of the state constabulary for news of their missing husbands. The lieutenant had ten hats gathered from bloody corner' after the conflict last night. Several of the women claimed that the hats belonged to their husbands or sons and wept copiously over the headgear.
 The strikers seem awed and gloomy tonight at the extent of last nights fatalities. The gloom over the little car company village is also attributed to the. fact that tomorrow a funeral has been planned for the strikers who were victims of last nights rioting. So far as plans for the funeral have been made. the strikers bodies will lie in state at the Catholic cathedral in Me Kees Rocks tomorrow morning and, headed by the strikers and their sym pathizers, will be inferred tomorrow afternoon in the little cemetery just outside of Schoenville.
 A Quietus.
 The news that additional state con- stables,w were on their way from Wilkes barre and would be in the strike zone before. morning seemed to act as a quietus upon those few strike sympa- thizers who gathered in doorways dur ing the evening and discussed the sit uation.
 There is no use now" said one of the striking men, ito try to resist these mounted police, as eighty such men, armed as they are, are more than a match for a thousand infuriated strik- ers."
 Meeting of Strikers Not Allowed.
 A meeting of the striking employees of the car plant scheduled for the late afternoon was not allowed to take place. The state constabulary, hearing of the proposed gathering, posted sem tries near Indian mountain and as fast as men were seen approaching the hill from the outskirts of the town they were ordered back.