The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
But Companies Are Producing
Il More Steel Than When
Strike Started.
NEWCOMERS AID OUTPUT
Vital Points to Be Considered
:. by Senate Committee
b in Inquiry.
sy a .ssor Correspondent o, TIN Sun.

sscond Week of the steel STRIFE finds me
Industry sim seriously, even vitality, Grip,
y5ed. Gallant efforts to bolster produc-
ton At the three great points Of the COM
pany's main line of defence in che Mo-
Itongahela Valley, at Duouesne, Home
Stead and McKeesport, have been only
partly successful
sMany of the gains that have been
made in the man power of the plants
which have been kept In operation have
resulted from new men coming from
outside Of the district. This conclusion
u forced after n careful tour Of the dig
trict to-day, including n minute inepcc-
ton Of the great Carnegie steel Com
pany's plant at Homestead.
i 1t cannot be gainsaid that the COM
panies are producing steel. They are
undoubtedly producing more steel man
they were at the beginning OF the strike.
But they are doing 1t through an
emergency disposition Of man power
&hich cannot last into normal times.
X The International Committee con-
tinues to insist that It has suffered no
Reflections from the ranks of the strikers
save in few isolated and almost indi-
Ridual cases. Conversation with work.
frs In the mills and with strikers outside
INDICATE tnat THIS II True
Resumption Planned Tomorrow.
Few men in the Pittsburg district were
hble to. foresee tonight the end of the
etrike. There Is much talk again about
rs general resumption Of work ." Mon
Reports come from Youngstown that
the mills there are preparing to open
With the new week. 1t may be stated.
however, that cooler heads among the
steel officials are frankly advising against
ppch an attempt. The police control in
youngstown and elsewhere In the Ohio
district Is by no means as all-powerful
Is It is in western Pennsylvania.
ikThe temper Of the strikers in the Ohio
Hegion has been stirred by unhampered
tnass meetings. The organizers there
have followed the rule Of the national
cemmlttee and preached against violence
$but their men are on edge, and the
best opinion among the steel officials
themselves Is that 1t is yet unwise TO
ettempt q resumption on large scale
there.
y The strikers are to make their big
drive the coming week in an attempt
to break down the repressive measures
which they say the State and local au-
thorities have adopted against them in
this district. In this they expect the
Aelp of the Senate committee. They in
elst that they are to be trusted to con-
duct their organization in an orderly
manner and that the refusal of the au-
fhorlties to permit them to hold mass
meetings and the persistent arrest OF
members and organizers of the union
Are unwarranted abridgments Of their
constitutional rights
They believe that II permitted to con-
duct their organization In such towns as
McKeesport, Homestead, Braddock,
Rankin, Clarion and Duquesne, as they
have conducted 1t in the Ohio field. they
would be able to close down the strong
folds Of the steel corporation.
The steel officials are frankly dubious
OF the devotion of the strikers to law and
order. They have charged all along that
Without the repressive measures adopted
nv the authorities the strikers would
Quietly have intimidated thousands of
men who are now at work at the fur
naces and in the mills
rs Fears of Loyal workers.
s The men are the highly skilled, mag
.rlincently paid and substantial men OF
their communities. The compafies have
record of the fact that wherever strike
ORGANIZATIONS has been permitted to work
Freely the men have left their posts and
have given as their reason the fear OF
violence and discrimination against
themselves and their families.
These are the two sides OF the ques-
ZION which the Senate committee will be
called upon to look into as soon as they
get to the Pittsburg district.
The organizing COMMITTEES summed uI
the situation from the strikers view
point in the following statement to-
night:
1.-THE strike situation is very satisfac'
tory to the committee. We have regis
aered net gains over the total number OF
workers out at the beginning OF the
etrike and over the number out at the
heginning of the week; The last weel
mas seen persistent and extensive effort:
Upon the part of steel mill management.
In all the steel towns to urge, cajole ant
brighten workers back into the mills
many thousands of dollars have beer
spent In display advertising calling
STRIKERS to go back to work Thousands
of workers have been visited In theil
Rhomes by company men, offered pay fol
the time they have been out, increases IL
wages II they would return at once anC
even threatened with arrest II they die
not return: approximately $50 workers
have been arrested in the Pittsburg dis
ftrict alone during the week, placed undel
heavy bonds, but often offered release 4
they would return to work-in short
avery device which could be conceived
has been employed to break the strike.
b Men VINO Have Gone Back.
what is the total result? There nav,
been individuals here and there VIII,
shave returned. We have heard OF cases
rhe total number Is insignificant and no
Fone of the organizers whom we hav
throughout the steel districts has asket
for help to prevent concerted return o
5btrikers 44y
Returns OF stray individuals hav
been such as every one familiar with I
great strike Of this kind knows Away
occur. These cases have been too lso
dated TO have. been made subject of re
port.
Apparently the Investigation under
taken by the Senate Committee on Labo
and Education has already had a salu
ftAry effect, The violent tactics. clea
sincitements to disorder, on the part o
the State ,constabulary and compan,
gunner have been markedly reduced.
= mot that attempts to break the strik
bavs been lessened. Unprovoked arrest
tAre made on every possible occasion
Three regular meetings OF chartered 10
Gals have been broken up by the police
The lawyer and witnesses at a gatherin
of thirty odd men to make dispositions I
DO presented to the Senate cofnmitte
were arrested and forbidden to hold sue
gatherings.
"Cossacks have attended local an
mass meetings and shown the insolenc
lof attitude and action which Is charac
seristio of them and would cause out
bursts OF resentment by strikers ha
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