New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
Steel Radicals
Bring Meyer
To Aid Strike
Also Import Green and
Brown Of Seattle $50
Wet" in Effort to Keep
Up Courage of the Men

Staff CotTsspo,ldeAc~
PITTSBURGH, Oct. s~-With the ar
rival of Charles A. Meyer. Of Denver.
president of the Nine, Mill and Smelter
Workers Union, and "a number of his
heutenants, there wa, feeling at ma
tional steel strike headquarters to-day
that the strike would soon show more
animation.
Meyer was an associate of Big Bill"
Haywood in the days of the Western
Miners Federation, when Governor
Steunenberg of Idaho was assassi
mated and more than twenty other per-
sons were killed in Western states.
His notoriety was revived later. when
Theodore Roosevelt classified him ~ an
undesirable citizen"
1t was learned to-day that Leon
Green. or Greenovich, one of the lead
ers. Of the notorious sympathetic
strike and soviet tumuit in Seattle. is
taking an active hand in the strike or
ganization at Youngstown, Ohio. An
other one of the Seattle leaders.
Seattle Brown, is Fosters chief adiu
tant in the organization and strike di-
recting work in the Pittsburgh district.
Another worker in the Youngstown dis
trlct ls S. T. Hammersmara, who
gained notoriety in connection with
the Mooney defence COMMITTEES and its
plan for a general strike in Moopev's
behalf.
AgitatOrs Arc Named
The Labor World" OF Pittsburgh.
the most widely read labor naper IN
the state, which is taken bv NOR. rhan
10000 steel workers alone and has
consistently opposed .hc steel strike,
VAN PRINT tomorrow a communication
from John z. Morgan. roller in one
OF the closed foungstowt steel mills.
y which he gives th. following list
OF strike organizers n the Noungs-
town district: O'Berta, Rosckoz. Ii
voda, Podea. Liberti. Moliuicl. Zar-
ford, Greenovich. Olson. Seattle"
Brown. Cashen. Mccoy. Cleahrtv. Hall.
hickey. Cannon. Trent Harmon.
Crouch, Evans, Ryan. McCladden and
Souse -''-
-, some Of these men, says Morgan.
nave transcontinental records ns agi.
tators. Some are noted ". VS.
and anarchists and some ar out.
spoken Bolsheviki from the TOP. Of
thelr heads to tho soles of heit feet.
:, hose men have not fooled the Eng
llsh speaking mill workers Of this val
icy, VINO arc ready to return 10 work.
AMI demand only from the authorities
here protection from pickets and
roWdlos TO and from work and we'll
soon show Mr. Foster wha. We think of
any strike movement that he or any
other Red controls"
roster claims now 20 have one thou
sand organizers at work promoting the
strike from one end Of the country to
the other. His organization has grown
so rapidly with the strike that he is in
desperate need of funds. He returned
from Washington this morning but
would not say what, if anything. vas
done at the conference. except that the
executive council had agreed 10 see
that the strike was financed. Ee said
tnc strike vas so young and the strikers
so well fixed that benefits were not yet
problem.
A general meeting OF the union has
been called to protest against the man
ner IN which the strike is being po-
need. This decision WAS arrived "a.
after conference with Mayor Bah
cock of Pittsburgh today. The com
mittee that met the Mayor was ac-
companied by James n. Maurer. presI-
dent Of the Pennsylvania State Fedora
ton OF Labor. representatives of the
national strike committee and ". r
Rubin, counsel TO the latter.
According to statement issued from
the officers of the national committee
the delegates received no. satisfaction
from the Mayor. although he spoke OF
his qualification at the conduct OF
meetings and the readiness of the
strike leaders to cooperate with the
authorities. He stated that il was not
his intention TO take sides and that he
did not consider that he was doing so
The labor representatives stated sher
disagreement with the Mayors claim
of impartiality."
planned to hold convention of the
Pennsylvania State Federation of La
Dor TO promote the protest agains- the
curb OH public meetings.
PicketinE Prohibited
The strikers are confronted by these
restrictions in Pittsburgh City proper:
/ No picketing. no Sunday meetings. 10
speaking in foreign languages, meet
ings limited TO the Labor Temple and
a small hall on.the North Side.
There are no signs that the author
ties will relax their rules here or else
where People nereabouts want the
strike speedily disposed of, and il ia
noted that the tighter tine lid on meet
ings and picketing the sooner the mills
will reopen.
In Mckeesport, where two strikers
Continued o,, nertfpagc