The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-27
STEEL TRUST
 HAS SERIOUS
 TROUBLE NOW
Striking Trainmen Refuse to Re- sume Work Until Blacklist Has Been Lifted
And Carloads of Strikebreakers Are Already Hidden In Plants at Homestead and Braddock

1 Pfttsb urgh, Nov. 27-On the heels of l the positive declaration of the strik- 1 ing trainmen Of the Steel Trust that l they will refuse to return to work un- 1 til the trust lifts the blacklist from | the officers of the Union and agrees l to give every striker his old job back, came the report that carloads of strikebreakers were already hidden in the big plants at Homestead and Braddock
 The company is preparing to house the strikebrea kers Armed guards are l patrolling the outside of the mill and State Cons ta bularieS, The Black Coseacks'' are within striking distance ready to be rushed into service when ever the steel trust wants them. None of the skilled or unski1led la borers in the plant have more than a days work at the outside available and unless the strike ends quickly or the company is able to break up the car tie-up with strikebreakers the
 mills will have to shut down com
 plete1y.
 There is every possibility that even
 if strikerbreakers are put. to work the
 cars will not move as 1t is rt1rnored
 today that the Union trainmen and
 switchnden Of the railroads entering
 this city would refuse to handle cars loaded and taken in the. steel reserra-
 tions through the medium of non-un-
 ion men.
 The action of the company in auto
 matically establishing black list con
 aiming the names Of the men who circulated the petition. which asked
 the company to pay the same wages that the railroads on the outside were paying, has resulted in bitter criticism by the strikers. Threats have been made that strikebreakers would not be permitted to work openly and in addi- ton there were rum org after today that the unskilIef workers Of the steel ffliated with the Industrial Workers of the World. might take the present time to formulate demands for better working conditions and more wa ges.
 The striking trainmen's statement as drawn up by a committee from the various mills concerned is as follows:
 on 'sr Fridey ds ss afserneon ,ese Eey 2 Z Stssi Works, discharged Hsrry Altsbouse. an assistant train master, apparently without cause. He was told that he ter of4fact, they could not give date for this alleged infraction Of the laws governing the work. The man had a petition circulated some time previous to this in which it was requested that ! a wage scale be given consideration ! and several men from the transporta- 1 having this petition circulated among them MT. Al1shouse. His discharee | followed as soon as the company off, | cia1s learned that he was one of the | leaders.
 saThe men worked until F o'clock Friday midnight, the meantime pass | Ing the EOTQ4 dfCuLf0 -lIidl AftSnOuSSI had been discharged and at 12 o'clock ! midnight they ran their entire to the | roundhouse. One of the officials no- tified Mir. Lawler that, the men want ed to see him. MT. Lawler came to the mill and later R. Hunt. The men | told the officials they wanted MT. | Af1shouse reinstated- MT. Hunt said that he could not place him, but just before MT Hunt was called, Mr. Law Ter stated that Mir Hunt could grant | the demands of the men The work men stayed on the premises for some time until one of the offiicals said hat if the wheels could not turn the men would have to leave the plant.