The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-20
j. s. STEEL PLANTS
WILL OPERATE
IF MEN To WORK
Deny Reports That There Must
'moat ., 100 Per Cent Loyalty
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LABOR WIS Y Us CAPITAL
Preparations Continue for Test OF
Strength Throughout United
States to Begin Monday

Strength Throughout United
States to Begin Monday
Pittsburgh, Sept, 2O.--Reports that
the United States Steel Corporation
would close its plants in this district
unless there was a hundred per cent
loyalty shown by the workers were
denied today at the offices of the Car
lnegie Steel company, a subsidiary
The plants will operate as long as
men report for work, it was said.
New York, Sept 20.-It was learn
ed today at the United States Steel
Corporations Offices that methods to
be employed in combating the strike
called for Monday would be left in
general way to the heads of the var
ious plants and subsidiaries. The
plans followed are not expected to be
uniform.
Pittsburg, Sept. 2O-All plants of
the United States Steep corporation in
| the Pittsburg district where any em
ployes are members of the steel work
ers union will be shut down tonight
for an Indefinite period, according to
reports stated by local news bureaus
as having originated in trustworthy
source. 1t could not be officially con
| firmed
Plants fully loyal will remain in
operation and loyal men in plants
closing will be taken care of by the
company, reports say. Those plants
which remain working. II is said, will
continue to do so so long as their
Operations are not interfered with.
Pittsburgh, Sept l9.-Preparations
for the test of strength between or
ganized and labor and capital in the
steel industry throughout the United
! States begin Monday went forward to
day with both sides apparently conf
dent of the outcome. There were no
official statements from either side
but informal talks indicated they
were ready for the contest.
Representatives of steel companies
in the Pittsburgh district let it be
known they intended to operate their
plants Monday and also let the i'm
preston go out that they do not look
| for as large a walkout as the union
leaders assert will take place Or
ganized labor expects a big turnout
of men and predicted that the employ
ers will receive te surprise of their
lives Neither side will venture
| figures Both frankly confess they
do not know how many men will re
main at work or fail to answer the
whistle Monday only can tell they
said.
Steel companies in many cases are
understood 70 have canyassed their
men to get an idea of the number Of
men who will strike. Union leaders
said that from their experiences these
canvasses usually prove to be mae
curate and pointed to past strikes
where a majority of men in a plant
has signed up not to strike and then
quit when the time came.
1t was said tonight that in a num-
| ber of plants some men have already
quit and sought work in other places.
II 1t was expected by union leaders here
that many men on the night shifts to-
night will take their personal belong
| ings out of the mills at quitting time
tomorrow morning as many OF them
| do not work Saturday and Sunday
nights
/ All the national leaders of unions
involved in the strike had left me city
tonight for their respective headquar
ters to make final plans for the strike
and much of the activity about the of
fees of the steel workers national
committee had to do with the prepa-
rations in the Pittsburgh dItrict.
While national headquarters are in
this city, in charge of William Z. FOs-
ter secretary of the national com
mittee, it was learned that much of
the work will be conducted by dis
tricts. These districts and the men
in charge, Mr. Foster said, are as fol
lows: Chicago, E. j. Evans: Cleve-
land. H. w. Raisse; Youngstown, j.
e. McCadden; Inner Pittsburgh, j. l..
Beakhan; Outer Pittsburgh, J. Nc
Caig; Bethlehem, David Williams (;
Buffalo, H. c. Thompson Birming-
ham, Ala, E. S. Ingram; Pueblo, Col,
w. II. Young.
Reports of strike developments will
be made to these districts and If i'm
portant enough, will be forwarded to
national headquarters.
Mr. Foster in answer to queries
said that all men in non-union mills
have been asked to strike. None will
be left to preserve company property
such as keeping up furnace fires and
prevent ore from cooling, he said
THE companies have had twelve
days notice of the strike" he said
"and if they have not arranged tC
look after their furnaces it is not ouI
fault"
1t was given out here that an i'm
portant meeting of the executive
council of the American Federation OF
Labor and representatives of the un
ions in the strike would be held prob
ably in Pittsburgh within two weeks
Questions of financing the contest, il
was said, would be taken up. AccorC
ing to the letter addressed to Presi
dent Wilson last night by the nationa
committee the unions cooperating il