The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
FOR FIXED PROFIT HOURS TOO LONG
Trade Commission Submits Old Steel Workers Time
Packer Report to Senate. Families.
Was Withheld From Public That Contention of Women
Presidents Insistence. Pckets al Gary.
URGED PER CENT LIMIT FIGHTING FOR 0-HOUR DAY
Wilson Was Afraid 1t Might We Asking
ure Food Administration Money, Says Woman
tempted To Have Him Workers Leave Home at AM,
Change HOOvers Regulations Return NJ, Tired
Steel Workers Have No Time
With Families.
That Is Contention of Women
Plckets at Gary.
FIGHTING FOR 0-HOUR DAY
We Are Not Asking for More
Money, Says Woman.
Workers Leave Home at ) AM,
Return at p. NJ, Tired Out.

Gary. Ind, Sept 24-Hope of
greater opportunity to enjoy the pleas
ures and comforts OF home life is the
one big factor which causes wives and
daughters Of steel strikers here to
back them to the limit
That was the answer given today by
women pickets at the gates of the
Gary Screw & Bolt plant to the ques-
ton of what they hoped to gain from
the strike. The majority of the pickets
we're former employees at the plant
Others were. wives and daughters of
men strikers.
NO other class Of workers know as
little OF the joys OF the home as those
in the steel mills" said Miss Helen
Haase, leader of the pickets. Miss
Haase was the first woman picket at
the gates of the great Gary Steel
work, of which the screw and bolt
company is a subsidiary. She now has
dozens of assistants.
The steel Workers Day.
'SteeI workers leave their homes
between and $3.50 a. m. so that they
will be on time when the shift
changes at 6 o'clock" she explained.
They certainly can have no time
with their families in the morning.
After working hard all day. they
leave the plant at O'Clock in the
evening. After reaching home at
o'clock, they are tired and worn out.
My father has often gone to sleep i'm
mediately upon reaching home-toe
tired to eat supper or even undress.
THAT is the program until Sum
day. II ii is his shift on the father
or brother leaves home as usual Sun
day morning and his family sees no
more of him until Monday morning.
They must work this 24-hour shift
every other week. If it happens to
be their Sunday off they are so tired
that they spend the day sleeping.
You can see that they have very
little chance to talk to their families
or enjoy amusements like other
workers"
When asked regarding wages, Miss
Haase said
Want s-hour Day.
"Of course. steel workers are re-
puted to receive high wages. Even il
that is true no amount of money can
take the place of home life. We are
not asking for more money We want
an eight hour day first of ALL"
Union leaders praise the work of
the women pickets. They declared
that the screw and bolt works the
only plant where women are on duty
Is not operating. Only a handful of
men report for work on each shift,
they said, and they give credit for the
tieup to the women.
~ =" a III. tdSi HiOi hiilS since tHe
strike started the women pfckets have
been on duty at the plant. altho it is
two miles from the city. They jeer at
and argue with the men going to work
the same as with women
Indiana Hnrbor Quiet.
Company and city police today con-
trolled the situation at Indiana Har-
Dor, where fourteen were injured when
strikers attacked workers while shifts
were changing at the Marks Manufac-
turing company plant. About 200
men went to work this morning I'M
molested.
Rollers employed by the American
Sheet & Tin Plate company who voted
to return to work were able to bring
back only a small number of their
crews. company officials admitted.
The plant was still inactive today.
/ Pickets declared that less than 100
men went to work