New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
Carnegie Company
Accepts Challenge
Agrees to Let q Com
mittee of Strikers In
spect Mills Operations
STAFF Correspondence

StuU correspondence
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20.-The Carne-
gle Steel Company decided to-day to
accept the challenge of the Central La
Dor Union of Pittsburgh that it be per-
mitted to send a committee Of ten
through the steel mills in order to
ascertain who is telling the truth about
the condition of the mills as to produc-
ton and the numbers of men at work.
The labor leaders were surprised by
this quick calling of what was consid-
cred bluff on their part, but they de-
clared that the management of the
company were "good sports" The
company has not yet received the for
NAL request from the union, but it was
drafted this afternoon and will be pre-
sented tomorrow. The companys dis
position is to let the committee choose
the time and the places without pre-
vious warning, so that there may be no
opportunity for staging the scene in
the mills.
The Court of Common Pleas to-day
refused the petition of the strikers for
temporary injunction restraining the
local authorities from preventing
strikers meetings, and set Wednesday
for the hearing on the application for
permanent injunction.
Loyal Men Apprehensive
A new angle to the strike contest
developed to-day when it was learned
that three plant superintel dents of
the Carnegie Company had reported
to the general officers that delegations
of the loyal men had informed them
that they feared that matters were so
shaping in the industrial conference
in Washington that they would have
to quit, meaning that they feared that
ing with the company would be in
some way compromised.
Other groups of loyal employees have
informed the company that if it yields
in any way to the strikers IL. Y will
consider it their conscientious duty to
leave its employ. 1t is considered
that the attitude Of these men has
had much to do with Judge Gary's
uncompromising attitude in the face
of terrific pressure. He is believed
to feel that since the loyal men stood
ne cannot take any course that will
in any degree compromise the prin-
ciple Of freedom of contract.
That the l. w. W. are planning to
take advantage Of the coal miners
strike, IT 1T comes, just as they have
of the steel striku was disclosed here
to-day, when it was found that they
are distributing leaflets among the
coal miners urging them to desert the
American Federation Of Labor and
join the cone big union"
Strikers Make Claims
The national committee for the or
ganization of iron and steel workers,
which has general charge of the strike,
met here to-day. After listening to
long reports from all the strike sectors
Chairman John Fitzpatrick summed up
the situation as follows:
1--WE enter the fifth week Of the
strike in stronger position than we
have occupied at the beginning Of any
week since the strike began"
Reports from the Mahoning Valley.
which includes Youngstown, Ohio, state
that the blast furnace production in
that section is now $500 tons weekly,
as against 1900 before the strike.
The Monongahela Valley plants of the
Carnegie Company reported further
gains to-day in personnel and produc
ton. At the mills of the McKeesport
Tin Plate Company, at Port Vue,
twenty-five hot mills resumed to-day
after having been idle SINCE the begin
ming of the strike. For the first time
since the strike began all the hot mills
of akhe American Sheet and Tin Plate
Company at Farrell are now operating.
The plants of the Carnegie Company