The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-27
TWO HUNDRED
STRIKE BREAKERS
OUT IN BODY
Pressed Steel Car Company
Plant Crippled by Deser.
tions of Its Men.
STRIKERS ARE JUBIlANT
OVER LATEST DEVELOPMENT

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Forced to Remain After They Want.
ed to Quit the Works.
Pittsburg. Aug. 27.-Imported men
numbering 200 quit work today a.
tho Pressed Steel Car company.
plant at Mckeea Rocks and in bod:
marched to tho bank OF tho Ohio rive:
where they say they will camp until
the company has paid them foi thei.
work. After getting the money du,
them 1t Is their intention, II ia said
to return to their homes in the vari,
GUS eastern and western citieg.
These new men claim there vera
only 800 workmen left in tho plan:
mill by tomorrow morning
Poor food and uncongenial working:
conditions they say. actuated tn,
wholesale assertions. The strikers
and their sympathizers arc jubilan:
today. When the big gates OF the
plant swung open shortly before S
O'Clock and the 200 men marched out,
surprise was manifested throughout:
tho strike district. Tho news spreaG
quickly, however. and within & few
minutes both tho strikers and tho inn
ported men were on the best O. terms.
Probably for the first time sinca
the inception of tho strike nearly two
months ago the strikers arc in q hap
py frame OF mind. Many OF them.
when they heard tho imported men
were leaving the mill by hundreds
began singing foreign songs that
were weird and tuneless. Fearing
the many desertions would have bad
effect. tho mounted troopers redouD.
led their vigilance in tho vicinity o.:
the works. The majority o: thu i'm.
ported men who struck today ar
rived here from New York on FRIDAY.
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The men allegc that they wera
given poor food subjected to crue!
treatment and that they were feare
to work when they wanted to qul'
Three men. i'll and weak. fainte,,
when they reached tho rive, bank.
! A large number o! men. it is sale,
will come to tho fedora! buildin" dur.
ing. the day and make affidvai: before
Specjai Agent Hoagland o. Washing
ton, D. c., who was sent here by TIL.
department o. justice for tha purln,s,
OF Investigating the alleged charges O..
peonagc.
II PeOnaga Charge.
Tho first testimony offered in tn,
fedora! government investigation int !
the charges o! peonagc agains; o..
ficials o. the company. in which
it is alleged force was used to com.
pei imported workingEen to work.
developed YESTERDAY Tho Presa
Stee! Car companyl attorney at.
tempted to hold the man who testi
fled that he was made to work against
his will but this was prevented by tna
Austro-Hungarian consul attorne:
and the assistan; federal district al.
tornej.
All the testimony was taken in
the form OF aftidavits. D: tho first
dozen witnesses called, little lniorma.
tion upon which to bass peonaea
charges was elected. the wines sec.
4 for the greater part declaring tina:
their good had been a,l an.l ihei.
treatment rough. but citin.: no
definite persons as beins responsible.
| Alex. Friedman. & Hungarian O.
New York was tho witness who made
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He said he was brought hers fifteen
days ago with one hund:cd olhe. men
from New York and alleges that they
were brought unde: false impres.
isions. He said tho worin:en were
given to understand there was 10
strike at the works. He sail hs waa
Fin the plant several days hefor" H.,
learned o. the strike. Friedman al.
legged that the car company picked
out the strongest looking imported
workmen and made guards =: them
He testified these guards handled tho
meE in rough manner.
Friedman stated that he had been
at work in tho plant e few days when
he was asked /; he did not want ta
make some overtime money and when
he replied in tho affirmative he wal
taken to the kitchen o: the commisary
Of the plant and told to work there
Friedman said he refused. After So
doing no stated he was roughly hand.
led by the workmen guards who took
him to tho box car jail. Constabulary
officers refused to lock him up, he
testified. -.
Friedman said the workmen guards
then took him before company or
ficials and asserted tho officials said
that they would compel him to work
in the kitchen. This they succeeded
in doing. according to the witness
who was also told that his pay for
the hours enforced work would bo his
supper.
Friedman did not claim he had
been forced to stay inside the car
plant, but stated he could point ou.
men who had been compelled to re.
main at work against their wills. sS
United States District Attorney
Jordon refused to comment on to-
days disclosures, but 1t is now said
by those in a position to know, tina:
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