Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-25
tLabor Leaders Say They Will Carry the Battle to the Senate. RIOTS AGAIN MARK DAYS DEVELOPMENTS State Police in Pennsylvania Towns Are Charged With Brutality
 Meeting With Railway
 BrotherhOOds Asked.
(By Associated Press)


 The third day of the great steel strike passed without either capital OF labor having made any apparent material gains. Last night attention was being focused upon Washington where the inquiry into the industrial struggle by the senate labor commit tee IS to open today.
 From their respective headQuart- CTS, industrial leaders and directors of the strike issued their usual con- flcting statements, which left still in doubt the exact number of workers who have walked out. William /. Foster, secretary of the strikers na- tional committee, claimed that in the various steel centers. l5000 more men had abandoned their posts, bringing the total to 342,000, but in the cru cial Pittsburgh district, officials of the United States Steel Corporation and several independents" asserted that the stream of labor had turned and was flowing into the mills.
 According to reports from Pitts burgh, where union labor leaders held a general barley to consider conduct of the strike, managers of the plants are seeking now to take the offens- i've. Not content with merely holding what forces remain with them, they are said to be trying to induce waver- ing strikers to return. Labor's re- cruiting forces are not inactive, as shown by the fact that organizers from the mine workers union have been called to reinforce agents of the steel workers union in enrolling non- union workers. Despite the predic- tion of MT. Foster that, through the work of these organizers, the strik- CTS will be able gradually to shut down all the important works in the Pittsburgh district, employers of labor claimed that yesterday, they had been able to increase production in all im- portant plants, including those in Homestead, Clarion, Braddock. Du- quesne and the Pittsburgh city mills of the Carnegie Co.
 1900 Vote to Return.
 As in Pittsburgh, the situation in Chicago also was clouded by conflict ing reports. The indusry in that sec- tion, though crippled by the closing of many plants, was by no means tied up and company officials claimed ad- ditions had been made to the reduced forces with which they were continu- ing operation.
 In the Youngstown district, where advances were claimed by the strik- CTS, the strike spread to fabricating plants, two of which were closed, as was the Youngstown Pressed Steel Co. Paralysis of production in the Mahoning Valley, caused by idleness of 44,000 workers, continues, every plant being closed.
 From Canton, Ohio, came the an- nouncement by the general manager of the Canton Sheet Steel Co.,, that his men, numbering 1,200, had voted to return to work.
 In the Colorado districts, plants of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.,, in Pueblo, which closed Monday, remain idle, and, according to officials, will make no effort to operate with strike breakers.
 Yesterday was marked by sharp de- crease in violence Although riOting occurred in Cleveland, order reigned in Buffalo, New York. and Pittsburgh, New Castle, and Farrell, Pennsyl- yania. the storm centers Tuesday.
 Pittsburgh, Sept. 24.-While or ganized labor's board of strategy was in session today mapping out further plans to bring victory to the union steel workers of the country in their struggle with the employers, the
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