Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-15
STRIKE IS ON AGAIN
5000 Foreigners Quit Work
at McKees Rocks.
WANT BOSSES DISCHARGED
Fulillment of Promise to Get Rid
of Imported Men Demanded.

PITTsBURG, Pa. September ia
new strike developed at the Pressed
Steel Car Company's plant at McKees
Rocks today. when 5000 foreigners en-
ployed by the company refused to go
to work. and gathered around the en-
trance to the works.
Most of the American workmen went
to work as usual. No effort was made
to interfere with them.
Later several hundred Americans quit
work. The absence of the foreigners,
they said, necessitated their coming out.
No Demonstration Made.
The strike caused much excitement in
and about Schoenville. There was no
demonstration aside from the foreign
ers assembling about the gate.
The strike, it is stated. is not organ
lied and is based upon the demand that
all the bosses and subbosses employed at
the plant be discharged by the company.
The American workers are said not to
be in sympathy.
The main grievance. it IL said. is the
employment Of large number OF men,
imported during the late strike, In the
capacity Of bosses The men claim one
of the agreements by which the last
trouble was settled was that all OF the
imported men should be discharged.
No Work Going On.
The American workmen, who left the
plant, say no work is being accomplish
ed in the mill. Instead the workmen
gathered in a body and listened to adj
dresses.
Shortly before noon the executive COM
mittee of the strikers was seeking a
meeting at the company's grievance bu-
reau.
Chairman c. A. Wise Of the strikers
executive committee expressed the belief
that he would soon have the situation
we'll in hand. He is now at work among
the foreigners and expects an early ad-
justment Of the trouble.
At the offices Of the company 1t was
stated that no grievances had been pre-
sented. and nothing official was known
Of the new movement.
About forty deputy sheriffs are still on
duty at the works.
By o'clock the strike became general.
All the workmen, numbering over 5000,
had left the plant. and all departments
were closed down.
Surprise in Washington.
The news of the renewal OF the strike
of the Pressed Steel Car Company work.
caused great surprise here. That there
was considerable dissatisfaction among
the returned strikers had been known.
but 1t was not expected that any such
action as today's would happen. at least
80 soon after the adjudication Of the
previous trouble The mediation board,
which consists Of DR.. Charles P. Neill,
the commissioner OF labor, and Judge
Martin A. Knapp. the chairman Of the in
terstate commerce commission. probably
will be called upon to exert its efforts
once more In the direction of adjusting
the present serious situation at McKees
Rocks.
The mediation board and the Depart
ment Of Justice would be the only two de-
partments Of the government likely to be
drawn into the matter. Commissioner
Neill returned here only last week from
the scene Of the strike. and then regarded
it as settled. He, however. left several
federal agents in the vicinity to keep In
touch with the conditions and develop
ments.
The Department Of Commerce and
Labor, which includes the bureau of labor.
had received no word from the strike
when the press reports were shown to the
officials here. The Department Of Justice
will not have to deal with the situation
unless some federal law Is violated by the
strikers or by the other side Of the big
industrial contest.