The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-26
STRIKE SETTLES
TO LONG FIGHT
Fifth Day of Labor Contest
Sees Physical Side Practi-
CalIy DeadIocked. e
BOTH SIDES CLAIM GAINS
Sundry Outbreaks of Rioting
Continue in Chicago
District.
(BY GEORGE r. HOLMEsl


1.-The steel strike went into its fift
day today giving every appearance
Of having evolved into a long drawn
out test Of endurance between tn
steel interests and their organize
employees.
Events of the last twenty fou
, hours lead to the belief in Pittsburgl
that only interventio, by some out
side agency-possibly The governmen
can lead to a quick settlement O
the conflict.
| Both sides saw in Judge Gary
| reiterated refusal to deal with Fos
ter and Fitzpatrick and E. r. Grace
| refusal to meet them in conference
a declaration of the platform upol
which the steel operators will fgh
| the issue out to finish. 1t also wal
admitted here that the stand taker
by the two biggest steel interests O
| the country--the United States Stee
corporation and the Bethlehem Stee
| company-cannot fail to crystalliz,
behind them the smaller independent
concerns, of which there are many
throughout this section.
Men Persuaded to Leave.
The physical side of the strike i.
practically deadlocked here today
Union leaders claimed small addition.
to their ranks. Men are gradually
being persuaded to come out of the
mills which are still running, and ir
South Pittsburgh, where some of the
largest mills of the city are located
the gain has been substantial. accord
ing to union claims. Strike head.
M 10 y,t.a W.
men on strike now throughout the
country totals 350,000, a gain of 5000
over the last previous figures,
On the other hand the operators
claimed that everywhere the situation
is clarifying and men are reporting
back to work. Assurances that they
will be protected has led thousands
of men to return to their tasks, they
claim, with the result that there is a
gradual resumption of many depart
mentS in the mills which were closed
on the first day.
The strikers national committee
viii meet here within the next few
days to decide on a policy with re-
gard to the Bethlehem steel plants
which so far have been exempt from
the strike, Little doubt was ex-
pressed today but that the committee
Will order a wa1kout. 1t was said
that President Grace's fiat refusal to
deal with the leaders leaves the
unions no other choice of action.
IT Meeting Can Be Held,
The strikers through this district
have the right to meet today--if they
can find place to gather indoors. A
protest committee waited on Sheriff
w. 5. Haddock, of Allegheny county
~ hnt r. 81 = a
rights We're being abridged by the
breaking up of meetings by the state
constabulary. The sheriff informed
them that they could meet peaceably
in halls, but that open-air meetings
were taboo because of the danger of
mob action resulting.
That's safe enough" said members
of the committee, bitterly, 'for there
is not hall in Allegheny county that
we can get into. The steel trust has
every one of 'em sewed mp"
Pittsburgh is filled with rumors
that strikers are planning a demon
stratlon by marching into the city In
columns from several nearby steel
cities. converging here. SO persistent
did the rumors become that the chief
OF police procured 125 riot guns and
armed as many police.
The situation is reported quiet
throughout the affected areas today.
There were no disorders reported
during the night.
Rioting Continues.
Chicago, Sept. 26.--Despite ap-
pearance of added industry. at sew
aral steel mills in the Chicago dis
Lrlct, statements of directing heads
maj pmntnNps 4
in sufficient numbers to permit op-
erations in some departments were |
net today by denials of defections |
from the strikers ranks by labor |
eaders.
A little rtotlng continued to mark |
he strike in the Chicago district. !
Strikers threw stones and other mis-
;les at Waukegan and one was shot /
~ a guard. At South Chicago one !
nan was reported beaten.
Who is Responsible.
Youngstown, O., Sept. 26.-Interest |
n the steel strike in the Mahoning
alley centered in meetings to be held
oday by unskiiled and semiskilled
vorkmen for the purpose of consid-
ring the proposition of returning to
york.
Who is responsible for calling the
meetings. still remains undetermined
o far AS the general public is con-
erned. Officials of the union say
hey were not called by union men
nj that no union men will attend
he manufacturers are equally as
orceful in their contention they are
ot connected with the meetings.
EictorS Eor Ctrikerx
Cleveland, O., Sept. rs With VIC
Dry perched on the strikers banner
4 the first attempt to resume opera
ions in the steel strike in the Cleve-
md district, both sides settled down
1day for period of "watchful wait
lg."
The bar mill Of the Empire Rolling
ill was to have opened up last night
ut not enough men reported and the
Management decided to abandon the
tempt, There was no trouble in
with the effort to resume. |
Strike leaders are continuing to
rge the men to make the strike in
leveland "gentlemanly one" and
very effort is being eXerted to pre-
ent the slightest disturbance.
To Date all efforts of the union to
It the men out at the big plant OF
le National Tube company, of Lo-
in, have failed. Union leaders last
ght made an effort to stop operations
the plant by getting the switchmen
at the mill to walk out.
his was unsuccessful, however, as
lie railroad men Were under instruc- ,
ons from their national brother
'od to remain at work. Labor lead
s Will address mass meeting OF
orkers at Lorain tonight in an I
'rt to unionize the moro than 5000
nployed in tie Lorain plant. Is