The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-22
Senator Kenyon, Iowa, Intro
duces Resolution Today.
Would Ascertain if Federal Ac-
ton Should Be Taken.
MINOR CLASH At CLARION, PA.
Several Men Have Heads Club
bed-ShOts Are Fired.
Strike Carried On without Dis
turbance Elsewhere.

Washington, Sept. 22-Investigation
Of the steel strike was proposed today
in a resolution introduced by Senator
Kenyon, Iowa. The resolution directs
the senate committee of education and
labor to ascertain the reasons for the
strike and whether any federal action
can or should be taken to meet the
situation.
Pittsburgh, Sept. 22.-Several men
had their heads dubbed and twenty
arrests were made today in the bor-
ough of Clarion when the Pennsyl-
vania state police had another brush
with crowds that refused to disperse.
Several shots were fired by each side.
according to Clarion police head
quarters. The first clash occurred
Sunday afternoon with crowds in
North Clarion and near McKeesport.
Strike leaders charge number of per-
sons in the North Clarion crowd were
severely injured.
According to the police. crowds per-
sisted in gathering during the morn
ing and were broken up. Finally a
large crowd resisted the efforts of the
state and local police to dispense 1t
and many missiles were thrown at the
police.s
The state troopers charged the
crowd and welded their clubs vigor-
ously with the result that about a
dozen were injured. Some one in the
crowd fired shots and the police re-
turned the fire, shooting in the air. No
one was hit Twenty arrests were made
and the prisoners were sent to the
county Jail here charged with melting
to riot. The police say the foreign
born element was responsible for the
disorders. At noon the borough was
quiet.
At McKeesport today all streets
| leading to the steel mills were heavily
guarded. At the National Tube COM
| panies works at McKeesport, large
numbers of workmen went to work
without incident What percentage of
| the workers answered the whistle, Of
! early today. The chief of police of the
town, who is in close touch with the
| officials of the workers said that the
strikers were largely foreigners.
At Braddock, and also at Home
stead crowds of men walked the
| streets but every one was kept moving
| Strike leaders and steel company
heads alike claimed the advantage to-
| day when what is one of the biggest
Industrial struggles the country has
known was but a few hours old.
William q. Foster, secretary of the
| steel workers. committee, claimed thai
the strike set for 6 a. m. was 80 pei
cent effective. He included the Pitts
! burgh district in, this statement. Eos.
ter declared plants were down
everywhere.
! Steel company officials viewed tht
| situation optimistically and asserted
that at most not more than Is to 2;
per cent of their men had answered
the strike call.
At the Carnegie Steel company it wa!
stated that not a single big mill of tht
company was closed in the Pittsburgh
district. Ninety-five per cent of tht
American employees of their plants re
ported for work as usual, it wa
stated All of those striking were for
eigners and common laborers bias
furnace was closed down here ant
there, the officials said, but claimed
that not single finishing mill wa
affected.
The Carnegie company is the larges
of the steel corpora tons subsidiaries
1t is roughly estimated that ther
are about 100000 steel workers in Al
legheny county, so on the basis of tn
steel company figures, from 10000 T.
$4,000 are on strike.
I'VE got away in good shape at mos
of our plants in and around Pittsburgh
this morning" said a representative o
the Carnegie Steel Co. when asked 70
a statement on the effect of the stee
workers strike which went into effec
today.