New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
Few Go Out at Bethlehem
and Reading, and The
Steelton and Lebanon
Output Is Unimpaired
Not Much Change
In Other Districts
Companies Unsuccessful
in Effort TO Stampede
Their Men to Return
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STAT Cor~csror.ie,.r-
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29~The str,
strike did not crack today. though
did bend some. Bethlehem was BIZ
ter though unconfessed disappointmer
to the strikers; and so also were .f
Jones and Laughlin plants here. thouc
some slight impression was made a.,
them. but the Weirton Steel Comma
at Weirton, ". Va. which stood M
last week, succumbed to-day. add,
1000 men TO the ranks Of the striker
Mill operators at Bethlehem. ST.
ton, Reading, Lebanon and Sparrow
Point all reported that their los
were trifilng, and that they were oner
atlng almost to full capacity. Stalko.
claimed that the detection Of elect
clans and machinists had crippled F..
Bethlehem plant. but this was de..e
although admission was made that
considerable number of machinis
had Joined the strikers.
Taking the situation as vho
operators gained perceptibly tod
though not heavily as a rule. in
numbers of men at work in the pla
that operated last week, and So.
plants were reoDened On the OH
hand whole districts were as
as at the end of last week To-.
may have marked the turn of the
but 1t would be premature to say
1t was IN any way decisive.
Cleavage Is More Plain
This much, however, the day did
1t marked the line OF cleavage r.
distinctly than ever between the An.
leans and the foreig gn-born 4 ial
proportion Of the small percentage q.
Americans among the strikers return.
TO work to-day. This fact was regarI
( by the employers as OF more mnpof
tance than the increased numbers a.
workers. They consider that. with =
admitted contest between Amer.
and foreign born, the strike is dooma.
no matter how long it may hold en- il
name.
The foreigners admit that I'll
Americans are hopeless. They cat
not understand why It is tnat AM
can workers viii not take advant4..
Of the opportunity that the 1oreIgua.
have opened for them
We foreigners are all going bac
to Europe soon,' said one o. thnt.
america is behind the times ard e..
go to hell. Before We left We wan.
to help the Americans 70 get the4
rights, but they are foolish and stic
to the bosses. It's no use
reviewed ninety miles of stoe
plants IN the Monongahela VALLEY l..
day-from Pittsburgh to Charleroi o..
one side of the river and back or
other.
Present State OF Strike.
The upper part of the valley W. r.
quiet industrially As a cemetery. A.
Monessen not even an attcmo- r.
made to open the five plants mere
American Sheet and Tin plate Com
pany, the Steel Hoop Company. ti.
Pittsburgh Steel Products Coinna.,,
the Page Ste and Wire Company an
the Monessen Foundry and Wachir
Steel e. Wire Company was making wha
looked like feeble attempt to resune
Nearer Pittsburgh there were in
creaslng signs of activity At Clair
ton, the hardest hit of the Carneci
big Four" $50 more men. practicall,
all Americans, reported this mornine
and more mills were started. thouqi
the blast furnaces remained cold Th
by-product coke ovens we're maAin.
a good showing, but were manifest
crippled
At McKeesport the strike was nesre
to being scotched than at any othe
place where II had made headway II
National Tube Company was apparent
running full blast, and the etriSor
were manifestly gloom. The Ncgee
port Tin Plate Company resumed orar
aticns in the finishing department al
more than $500 meu applied for Dorl
100 OF them turning in their urio
cards as they did so. The Firth Sterl
ing Company and the Fort PET SITES
Casting Company were running no,
mally. The picking department o. n
American Sheet and Tin Plate Cor
rany, however, was shut down by
walkout of laborers
Gain Made at Braddock
} At Braddock the American Stee, an
Wire Company was running in all dc
partments. and the Edgar Thomso
Steel Mills Of the Carnegie Comran
showed distinct gain. There was nraf
tically no gain by the companies i
: Rankin
Duquesne was running to full =
pacity as usual. There were fe.
more men at work in the Hoinestes
plant than last week and the strike,
had about given up hope of getting an
more TO quiz. Homestead's productio
for last week was: Steel, POLL tors
!: beams. 4.022: plates. 10000; billet
200; armor plate, 2l7; ax!os, $50
\ Foreigners that talked with on -
tour were frank to say that the ord
, maintained by the state police -,
fatals to strike extens ion, and N
"Cossacks" were profanely abused a
all sides.
} From other mill towns near Pitt
burgh there were general feporfx
more men a. work, but Johnstovn ar