The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-10-03
Night Shifts Fail to Answer the
Whistles; Unions Walk
out Is Planned.
GREAT MAsSMEET|NGS HELD
Superintendent OF the Different
Mills Plan to Keep Running and
Guards Are on Duty-Say No
Fires Will Be Drawn.


strike fell on Chicago and Calumet
districts when hundreds Of workers
refused to answer the steam blasts
calling them to early night shifts.
Officially the strike went into effect
at midnight Sunday, but after the ma
ranguing and cheering of large crowds
gathered at meetings In the various
"steel cities" south, east, and north OF
Chicago, hundreds of union men re-
fused to enter the plants. u
The situation at Gary, the vortex
Of the local strike whirlpool, was typ
ical. More than 5000 men answered
the union call at the East Side PARK
to hear the officials Of the Unlted
States Steel corporation condemned
for their refusal to treat with the
workers. Union heads claimed thar
5000 men were already on strike ana
would not report for work.
Local superintendent, however, de-
clared that the plants would continue
to operate as long as the men came
to work. There will be no fires drawn
as long as there are faithful employ
ees to watch them. They derided I'M
ion claims that the plants would De
shut down as mere exaggeration. Ihey
estimated the union strength as De-
tween Is and % per cent of the WORK.
ers' total and promised protection FOR
the men who reported for work.
In secret the management or the
Illinois Steel company, a subsidiary OF
the United States Steel corporation
made ready TO protect Its plants.
City authorities and Sheriff Barnes,
in whose territory clashes are expect
ed, If any materialize, will throw nun
dreds of deputies into. Gary. Fifty
police will patrol the main street,
Broadway, and prevent crowds from
accommodating. The strikers drew con-
siderable satisfaction from the fact
that no one reported to join the cit,
zens' league" which was planned US
bulwark against disorders In Gary
Another 5000 met in Indiana 11ar'
Dor, overlooking into the streets De-
cause the auditorium was too small 70
accommodate them. It was claimed
that so per cent of the $4,000 work
ers were unionized.
Joliet saw repetition of this. Only
$500 men could find room inside the
Slayish school hall and 5000 more
stood about in the streets, unable to
hear the messages brought by organ
izers from Chicago.
81 H. Gary, head of the Steel cor
poration, was the center OF abuse. II.
N. Glover of Chicago declared that
Gary placed himself above Christ,
who, he said, was a laborer, carpen-
ter and an organizer.
This statement brought cries OF
KAISER Gary" from the assembly OF
union syrnpathizers.
In Hammond, where 1900 employ
ees of the Standard Steel Car COM
pany have been on strike for weeks,
every man but one in the 1880 union
electrical workers, voted to go out In
sympathy with the steel workers.
There are about 10000 employees In
the trade in Hammond.
Nearly 1000 met at Waukegan, the
home of the Mark plant of the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire company, which
has seen considerable labor trouble
during the past year. Union leaders
claimed that 200 recruits were OBJ
tanned during the meeting. The city
council turned down request from
the unions that their pickets be dep
utized as special police. 1t was
planned to put so pickets on the JOB
CARRIED in their overseas uniforms.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 2S.-n the
entire district it is estimated that
5000 steel workers are idle.
Some of these are strikers. Others
are workmen willing to stay at their
Jobs. but unable to do so because OF
the action of strikers in Gripping de-
partments of plants.
Disorder marked several meetings
of strikers. Sixteen men were arrest.
cd at meeting in Charlton, seat of
big plant of the Carnegie Steel COM
many, and placed in the county jail.