The sun., 1919-09-29

mills you'll win this strike" was the
burden of speaker after speaker. And
II state cop meets up with you and
tells you to move--you move. He's got
the law on his side"
The other theme of the speeches was
that the strike was already won. the
speakers held up to scorn the adver-
tisements--and the reading matter-in
the Pittsburg papers. and read figures
showing how many men are on strike
In each place and how many will 90 out
tomorrow in Bethlehem and In the
Jones q Laughlln plant In Pittsburg.
These announcements were greeted with
hearty cheers.
Similar meetings were held In Home
stead, Rankin and throughout the val
ley. At all Of them the speakers took
the same tone and at none Of them was
there a hint OF disorder
1t was as the Clarion meeting was
breaking I'D that the shooting ARRAY oc-
CURED. One Of four men walking
through the street abreast suddenly
drew back, pulled revolver and shot
a companion In the head. State troop
ers were on the scene in a few seconds
and arrested all three. But the victim.
not badly injured, refused to identify his
assailant and refused to say anything
about II. The man who was shot was
Ia striker, but the police believed the
Lsffray was a strictly private row.
Despite the claims of the mill officials
for gains up the Monongahela Valley to-
morrow morning, interest centres in the
Jones & Laughlin plant. This company
has frankly made a drive against or
ganization within its ranks. During the
last two years since its machinists and
electricians lost a strike, the company
has consistently weeded out all trouble
makers. An officer of the company said
tonight that during that time the COM
pany had discharged las different union
organizers, who had got not only within
the plant, but upon the company'a pay
\ roll, for the purpose Of organizing the
employees
U. 8. Judge Lauds Foster.
Chairman Fitzpatrick of the strikers
national committed made public to-day>a
letter from Federal Judge Samuel AL
schuler of Chicago, who acted as me-
diator In the packing house strike. The
letter is dated March 2s, 1919. In II the
Judge states that his acquaintance with
William Y. Foster began In February,
1918. In connection with the hearing OF
arbitration eases In certain of the pack
Ing house Industries. The letter further
says:
'1n his representation Of the employ
|
me in which he participated he i'm
pressed me as being particularly intelli-
gent, honorable. moderate, tactful and
fair. His manner of presentation and
his occasional apt literary references led
me to inquire of others as to his early
advantages, and / learned with some
wonder that they were absolutely nil
and, on the contrary, all the very re-
verse of advantages.
IF in his earlier wanderings he i'm
bibed for a time fantastic, extreme and
destructive social ideas am sure there
was nothing developed in the many con-
terences and hearings in which he par
ticipated that would indicate that he still
harbored them"
from New York, who is here organizing
the legal fights against strikers arrests,
was Joined to-day by ]. G. Brown. one
of the leaders OF the recent Seattle
strike. They announced that they would
engage attorneys iR~every steel town to
defend the interests of their men. They
estimated that about $50 strikers and
organizers are in Jail in the Pittsburg
! district.
! Prepare for "FulI Resumption"
That the steel strike in the Allegheny
Valley will be broken tomorrow was
the prediction of officers of the Alle-
gheny and West Penn Steel companies
tonight after passing an active Sunday
In preparation for what they termed
full resumption" tomorrow. Fully
manned by Americans, company repre-
sentatives say, virtually every depart
ment of the big Breckenridge mills will
be in motion before night. Men were
applying for Jobs to-day.
The $50 employees of the sheet mill
department of the West Penn Company
viii resume work tomorrow afternoon
at O'Clock, after a suspension since
Friday. 1t Is said an agreement has
been reached among the native born
workmen In this department that no
strike exists and none was called
Men who voted against returning to
, work at last weeks meeting will not be
listed as strikers, but will be declared
to have quit their jobs and their places
, will be vacant and filled by others, 1t
, is said. The workers are scheduled to
! report at the mill tomorrow forenoon
+ FOR brief conference with the company
officers.
Notices have been posted in Home
: stead by the Carnegie Steel Company
! Offering a reward OF $1,000 for infor-
! nation leading to the arrest and con-
viction of the man who shot at Peter
! Rouke while he was going to work last
night. The notices bear the signature
. VI JOAiu Su5tcfB OF the
Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead
r plant.
!. To Discharge DilatoFy Ones.
Officers OF the Carnegie Steel Company
p In Homestead declared tonight that
Q several hundred men had returned To
r work and that all their mills were work
n ing, not section of their plant being
I idle. They said that men not returning
to work before 10 o'clock tomorrow
a morning would be paid OF and dis
n | charged
t One more furnace of the Edgar Thom-
e son Steel works at Braddock was nut
into operation to-day, making six OF
e the eleven furnaces now working. Other
departments OF the plant report in
creased operations and among strikers
, who returned to work tonight were
| many foreigners.
What are alleged to have been at-
tempts Of Glassport strikers and sym.
| pathizers to burn down manufacturers
| plants and the homes of loyal employees
| In Glassport were frustrated to-day after
$4,000 damage had been caused. Three
men, one a foreigner. were arrested
They had arrived in Glassport only
few hours before the blazes were
started.
Lumber In the yards of the Glassport
| Lumber Company was found burning and
| the blaze was extingu shed. = According
to the police the fire was ncendlary