Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-06
STEEL COMPANIES ARE TO
 ATTEMPT TO START PLANTS

l Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct 5.-As the steel strike entered upon it's third week, the I union workers prepared to dig in | for a siege while the steel companies arranged to make another attempt to | start up idle plants tomorrow morn | ing. Through page newspaper adver- | tisements and personal appeals the | companies have put forth efforts to get sufficient men back ito start uI some of the works that have been sus- pended since the strike began. Secretary William Z Foster, of the national strike committee, said he was confident that the companies would fail and that the ranks of the organ ized men would hold firm. It is only another attempt to scare our .men back to the job" he added. We are digging in and I feel sure we will hold our ground"
 Preparations to begin operations to-
 morrow have been made in plants at Weirton, w. Va; Donora, Monessen,
 BFaddock, Rankin, sharon and in the
 city of Pittsburgh. In some instances
 to start up until sufficient men indi
 cate their desire to return to work to
 operate plants properly.
 The Jones and Laughlin works of
 Pittsburgh have been greatly crippled
 by the strike, more so than company
 officials admit, according to strike
 headquarters today. Union leaders claim that. only 12 ears of finished
 steel are being turned out daily, while the normal output is 125 cars.
 This information was obtained form
 reports furnished headquarters by union trainmen, it was stated. The company claims that only part of its night shift is seriously affected
 The, strike zone in the Pittsburgh district was quiet today. A few meet ings were held. The largest was at Homestead, where several thousand strikers were addressed by union or ganizers.
 Strikers are looking toward Wash ington for important developments this week. Tomorrow night the steel workers national committee will mee with the executive council of the American Federal tion of Labor to dis cuss strike finances and other matters relating to the walkout- In addition the industrial conference call by President Wilson is also scheduled to meet al the capitol, at which labor leaders are expected to riscuss the strike with representative of employ CTS.
 Although they issued formal statements, steel interests let it be known that they regard the worst of the strike as over and that it was only a matter of time before the bulk of the strikers would be back at work.
 w. G Rubin, general counsel of the strikers, announced today that he would resume the fight of the steel men TOT Tree speech and Tree as semblage in this district. He said that a meeting of all persons arrest ed and their witnesses had been called for tomorrow night at Clairton. He will meet them in a hall and will not ask for a permit. Should the author ities interefer he threatens to get out an injunction. On the following day a similar meeting is scheduled for Mckeesport, where free speech and assemblage, it is charged by union leaders, has also been denied.
 An effort will be made to get the cases of Secretary Foster and other union organizers arrested at Duquesne for speaking without permit, into the federal court for a test case, Mir Rubin said. The union organizers were fined s100 by the Duquesne bur gess. They appealed to the county courts and lost
 Approximately 200 switching crews in the Mahoning valley district and fifty crews in the Cleveland district are out of work because of the strike. it was announced a union headquart- CTS tonight. This information came from the executive offices of the rail- road brotherhoods, it was stated
 This is one indication that the plants in those sections are hard hit" said MT. Foster. The trainmen are able to give definite information as to the real effect of the strike.''
 Secretary Foster said he would be in Washington tomorrow to attend the meeting of international presidents.