The sun., 1919-10-01
Foster to Go Before Senate
Investigating Commit
tee Tomorrow.
WAR OF ATTRITION ON
Companies Continue tOGain
WOrkers-HOuse Evic-
tiOns Are Ordered.
DECISION HITS STRIKERS
Pittsburg Judge UphOlds Mu-
nicipal Rulings Barring
Meetings.
DECISION HITS STRIKERS
sv a STAFF Correspondent Of The sUx


P1T-rsBURG, Sept. 80. THE steel
strike settled frankly into a war Of
attrition to-day, with both sides using
the most intensive methods. Neither
is making any great claims. There
has been no wholesale return Of men
to work and the efforts to close down
the big Jones & Laughlin plant in
Pittsburg have failed rather igno-
miniously.
Thus the relative position of the
strikers and the steel makers remains
substantially as it was last week and
with all OF the chances favoring a VIC
tory over the union by the companies.
Steel is being made in quantity up
the Monongahela Valley at Duquesne,
Homestead and Rankin, the strong
hold of the Carnegie Steel Company,
even though the forces are somewhat
crippled. Little steel is being made
any place else. But these big plants
of the Carnegie Company in normal
times produce a large percentage Of
the Steel Corporations output.
Conflicting reports continue to come
from Bethlehem. William u. Foster
made public tonight another tele-
gram from Dave Williams, his organ
izer insisting that 80 per cent of the
Schwab men were out.
Weshington Move Looked For.
Both sides are looking to the Senate
committee investigating the strike for
the next move. Each side hopes for de-
veopments from the appearance OF
Judge Gary before the committee to-
morrow, the steel officials believing that
their head will conclusively show the
justice of the Steel Corporations posi-
tion and the union leaders foreseeing an
opportunity for their friends on the COM
mittee to bring out admissions favorable
TO the strikers.
Elaborate preparations are being
made here for the trip of William u.
Foster and Al. F.. Tighe of the Anal
gamated Association OF Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers to appear before the COM
mittee on Thursday. Affidavits sup
porting the strikers contentious that
their constitutional rights have been
grossly infringed by local authorities
under the. influence OF the steel trust
have been assembled literally by the
hushel The strikers believe that Foster
will dispel for all time the accusations
of "redness' made against him and
which they know have seriously hurt
their own cause outside of the industry
itself
The strikers and the steel companies
are making far fung preparations for
the visit of the committee to the Pitts
burg district. The companies expect to
show that the allegations of squalid con
ditions in which their employees live
may he disproved: the strikers expect
to show first hand instances Of the so
called nefarious "Cossacks.' All OF
which is admittedly to play big part
in the future OF the strike whether or
not lending itself to it's immediate
| breakage or settlement
Many Missionaries at work.
The intensive means of attrtior EN-
| ployed by both sides are the methods OF
| the missionary. Not only are the or
hundreds through the district each night
to talk 90 worlImen in their homes but
the bosses themselves are doing the
same thing.
Where the latter need men they go out
| to get them. Frequently bosses have
spent hours arguing with a single man
! TO get him to go back to some particu-
larly vital job. Both bands Of mission
, aries are having some success
Steel operators we're little disturbed
here tonight by the report Of a strike
! on the ore docks at Cleveland. None OF
them need any ore, At the close of nav
| gation last year all had stocks on hand
! the continuation OF the war scale of pro-
duction having been in mind. The armis-
| tlce left huge surpluses, Company Off
GERS said here tonight that they have
ore enough for thirteen months of oper-
alton on the pre-strike scale.
I One OF the hardest blows struck against
the labor organizers here was dealt to-
day by a decision OF the County Court
which upheld the convictions Of Foster
/ and J. l. Beaghin. another organizer.
/ for violation OF II city ordinance In Du-
! quesne In holding a meeting without "A
I permit. The strike leaders contended
+ that their conviction interfered with
| their constitutional right 10 free speech
| Judge Kennedy. president OF the County
| Court in delivering his opinion said:
The right OF free speech is a sacred
one II well deserves protection, hut
! there are places and times and subject
at and OF which the right of free speech.
| sacred though II may ne. must yield 10
| the greater one OF the safety of the citi-
I zens of the commonwealth, their homes
ana their property"