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tee, apparently had succeeded In en-
forcing his own counsels OF modera-
ton until after he has told his story
and has met Judge Gary before the
Senate committee in Washington to-
morrow.
There Is a possibility-a bare posi-
bility-that the bringing together OF
Gary and Fitzpatrick before the Sen
j. ate committee tomorrow and the COM
parative recitation of their contentious
may lead to the conference which will
result in an armistice. But both the
men and the companies insist that
they are In shape TO win, and neither
+ side Is yet in mood for concession.
p Gov. Sproul Of Pennsylvania sent a
ringing answer tonight to the accusa-
ton by William Y. Foster that the
State police had unwarrantably, afro
ciously and brutally broken up a strik-
ers' meeting In Charlton on Sunday.
The Governor said there are danger
Gus radicals within the union ranks
and that he has been informed that
armed mobs are being formed in adj
sjoining States to march into Pennsyl-
sania. These invaders, he declares,
will be repealed.
No encouragement for Strikers.
: q As the strike situation stands tonight
u carries no new encouragement for the
men. Further outposts were swept up
~ the outlying territories, but the great
main line OF the steel companies the
1fonongahela Valley, with its three
Fashioned fortresses at Duquesne, Home
sfead and McKeesport. has gained
strength which the strikers cannot deny.
Two more blast furnaces have been
started at Rankin and the company re-
ports that many more of its rolling
mills in the valley have resumed work,
though they claim only modest Access
hion to their working forces. y
The strikers declare that their ranks
are still growing
Detailed figures made public by Will
lam 2. Foster, though he asserts that
tfe total on strike now reaches S42 900,
show accessions of only 5000 men in
Pittsburg and 10000 in the Youngstown
district
X Fitzpatrick when he came from the
meeting OF his committee this afternoon
made every effort to minimize the posi-
NIFTY of a general strike.
<"No one but idiots and nuts talk gen-
eral strike" he said roughly. That's
&fl foolish talk. This is a straight out
Imposition of the American Federation
OF Labor and its rules prevail"
(. In this, however Fitzpatrick made a
ane distinction. 1t may not have been
the general strike in the European sense
Of a wholesale suspension of work that
the hotheads were demanding. but the
dbrridors of the old Monongahela Hotel,
outside the stuffy room where the men
wrangled for more than eight hours.
rssounded with the shouted demands
that the A. +. of L. might better pull
On every one of its affiliated organiza-
tons rather than see the steel strike
fail In the place where II has chosen to
make its greatest test of strength with
the largest single industry which does
mot yet recognize 1t.
Hone to Line Up dependents.
Il was admitted by the leaders after
the meeting that steps had been taken
TO reach an agreement with ~uch indie
rendent steel makers as want to sign
the union terms. Details of ehese agree
ments were left to the individual CON-
r,itteem en,
I'VE have met some of the represen-
natives of the independents" said Fitz-
patrick, land we find them to be rea-
sonable men now
Asked when the strike would enc
Kirkpatrick replied: "A minute and q
half after Gary agrees to conference u
Then he qualified his statement in this
WY: Something also will have to be
done about the State Constabulary.
mo settlement will be satisfactory
unless 1t provides for the elimination OF
this force"
And that Is the big idea in Fitzpat.
PICKS mind with regard to the confer
once tomorrow. Irrespective of what
Gov. Sproul says the labor leader in.
sists he will present to the committed
evidence that the State police nave rid
den down women and children. He says
he will go right over Gov. Sprouts head
aid ever Judge Gary's also to President
Wilson.
"No one seems to realize that tn
biggest question out here" Fitzpatrick
declared lis this denial of our consti
tutional rights AMI these atrocities. Cary
has defed the Chief Executive of the
United States One Of the things tina
men are striking for now is to sustain
tie President.
THE steel magnates have set up a sit
cation where they refuse TO sustain thu
Chief Executive. The strike will go OF
until his supremacy has been established
Tho men backed him through the wal
and they will back him through thi
crisis. which is perhaps Just as grave
ave been instructed by this meeting Il
70 to Washington and demand the full
protection of the Government in Thu
most vital situation in the country to
day.
sim going to tell the committee hov