The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-24

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ing waged with varying success, is
sues still being doubtful in great
strategic sectors radiating from Pitts
burg and Chicago in the Pittsburg dis
tricct The Carnegie Co announced
the situation looks good"
These claims are denied by Chief
of Staff Foster of the unions Riot
ing and disorder still mark the pro-
gress of the struggle, but so far only
sporadically
Cleveland, Sept 24.-Four men
were stabbed two probably fatally,
and two others badly beaten near the
entrance of the American Steel and
Wire company today in the first seri-
ious local disturbance of the steel
strike. The trouble started when
street car stopped near the plant to
let off men bound for work in the
mills.
Chicago, Sept 23-The most impor-
tant development in the progress of
the strike. which has halted practical
ly all steel manufacturing in this dis
trict, came late this afternoon, when
the United States Government stepped
I'm with the avowed purpose of sup
pressing radical agitators. lest the
strike be used as a means to advance
Bolshevism.
One arrest was made. A man who
gave the name of Mike Yelovitch was
arrested in Gary and held in $4,000
bond on charge of urging revolution
through which the workers would win
contrcl of the mills and of the Govern
ment
Others were put under close watch
by agents OF the Department of JUS
tice under orders that all agitators
are to be dealt with in the same man
per as under the espionage act during
the war
In the meantime the situation re-
mained at deadlock. No more mills
We're closed and none reopened. The
steel ,unicns claimed steady increase
in the membership and the various
company officials claimed their men
who were intimidated into remaining
away from work the first day were
Expressing willingness to come back if
assured protection.
The most important detection from
the ranks Of the strikers reported by
company officials was that of forty
rollers" of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate Company at Gary Accord
ing to the company reports, these men
met and voted To return to work each
saying he would bring his crew OF
twenty men back with him. These 500
men would put the plant back upon
normal basis
a'f..'-
New York Sept 24.-Organized la
Dor gained ground in Chicago Young
stown and other western centers on
the second day of the great steel
strike, which was marked by increas-
ed violence but according to officials
of the United States Steel corpora
tiOn and various independent com
panies made but little headway in
Pittsburgh and other eastern mills. |
From the south were received decid- |
edly conflicting reports, such as from
Birmingham, where union leaders
claimed four thousand men We're out
and plant officials asserted there was
such a surplus of labor that hundreds !
of men were set to sweeping floors |
for lack of other work.
In the Chicago district, where un-
ion leaders claimed an additional !
10000 men had gone out, more steel
plants were closed in south Chicago |
and Indian Harbor although at the |
latter place officials on an ''independ- |
ent" explained their shutdown had |
been ordered merely to avoid respon-
sibility for industrial warfare Yes
terday only the Gary mills of the
United States Steel corporation, some |
small plants in east Chicago and five |
independent mills in Hammond at |
operation.
In the Youngstown district proper, !
strikers achieved their morst marked |
success, causing complete suspension |
of work in every plant on the Mahon-
ing Valley by calling $4,000 men away
from their posts.
Union leaders boldly heralded a |
spread of the strike, declaring that |
whereas only 2S4,OOO of the half mil |
lion workers affected had marched |
out of the mills on the opening day, |
their ranks now numbered 327100. |
They predicted that today or tomor |
row would see the closing of many |
more plants, and announced they
hoped to extend the strike to Great |
Lakes seamen and union trainmen
Industrial leaders, while withhold |
ing their own figures, challenged the |
claims of labor's leaders Representa- |
tives of the Carnegie company, the
largest subsidiary of the United
States Steel, declared that the stu
alton was much improved" An es-
timate was made that, in the Pitts
burgh district alone 21,O0O men had |
returned to vat and furnace.