Evening star., 1919-10-06
STEEL EMPLOYERS
;|'''!:::::'SEEK 4 ADDED GAINS
Third Week Of Strike Opens
g With Claims of Desertions
sso:Ts
From Unions.
|kEP0RTs FROM DISTRICTS

:REPORTS FROM DISTRICTS
Il
.Sy the Associated Press.
!: PITTSBURGH, October .6:--An. effort
by employers to open additional
plants in the Pittsburgh district today
marked the beginning of the; third
week of the steel workers strike.
Representatives of the steel companies
day that hundreds OF men returned to
work in the mills last week and they
declare that sufficient workers will
desert the strikers ranks today to
assure the reopeniDg OF plants which
Have been tied UP by the walkout. There
was no stampede to return to Fwork,
however.
:tUnion leaders were emphatic in their
declarations that, plans of the en-
Hloyers to start operations in the mills
.vill fail. They say that the strikers
will stay out and that the end OF the
DAY will show few, if any. of the men
back on the job.
!; Heavy rain fell during the morning
All was quiet throughout the district.
Hundreds of deputy sheriffs. mill
guards and police, patroAed the streets
AT the various plants
/; Gains Reported.
!. Officials of steel plants in Rankin
And Braddock today said that there
vas no material change in the strike
situation in those places. They report
a shortage Of labor, but:asserted that
each day results in additional mep re-
turning to work.
Steel company sources reported
gains at Donora and Monessen. It was
said the American Steel and Wire
Company started a rod and a bloom
ing mill at Donora: and FIVE Donora
Steel and Wire Company, also started
up, but not in full.
Plants at Monessen. which are said
to have made a start in. varying de-.
grees, are the Pittsburgh Steel Com
pany. Pittsburgh Steel Products Com
pany, Page Woven Wire Fence Com
pany and the Monessen Foundry Com
pany. No attempt was made it is
said, to start the Carnegie plant or
the small works of the American
Sheet and Tin Plate Company in that
vicinity.
/! Few reports had been received at
strike headquarters in the forenoon
yps report stated that the strikers at
hem were holding firm. There was
some activity at the Weirton iron and
steel mill at Weirton. W. Va, reported
to union headquarters.
1900 at Work at Youngstown.
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, October G.
Apart from a. slight increase in the
number of men entering the Younes-
town Sheet and Tube Company plant
early today, there was no change as
The third week of the steel strike be-
gan here today.
The Carnegie Steel Company now
snSe l,I00 men at work out of a nor
NAL 5000. and the Youngstown Sheet
Snd Tube Company about 700 against
norma! $4,000. These men are en-
Hyoyed chiefly on repair and upkeep
york. The valley remains quiet and
6Sm. As
s Mills at Weirton Resume.
s3STEUBENvILLE, Ohios October e
srhe mills Of the Weirton Steel Com
pany at Weirton. W. Va. closed down
afst week. resumed operations today, ac-
cbrding to John c. Williams, the com.
.pany general manager.
But Fifty Out at sparrows Point.
October 6.-rhe man.
Agement Of the Sparrows Point branch
sQ the Bethlehem Steel Corporation
!xeported accessions to- the number OF
fdeclared that the 'indications were
stpat the tin production of the mill
8ould be back to normal in a few
;qRys- About fifty men have been abb
,aSnt since the strike was declared IL
1fas said. The other departments of
sehe plant were declared. to be in fun
operation. =
8 Activity in Chicago District.
the Associated Press. -.
October S.-clashes he-
Feen strike sympathisers and the
Heolice and special deputies during fbe
SSst thirty-six hours in the Chiearo
strict did not deter heads of steel
lIis from attempting to start addiS
sEonai plants today, the beginning Of
51pe third week Of the walkout. Com
any officials claimed they had az
rance that large numbers of men
no nave been on strike for two
fYeeks would return to work during
s1e DAY and that many plants which
'Pve been idle for two weeks would
Hegin operations. : =
u Picket Lines Increase.
'a3Cnion leaders increased their picket
'9neS early today in an effort to nre.
vent desertions and asserted that thew
Tor no material reduction in
3heir ranks. ga
.zSJohn Fitzpatrick, chairman Of +h.
National committee conductinx the
is9rke, who planned to leave for
e. ashington tonight to confer with
eaos OF the American Federation Of
eoor; SAID many were being taken
Ito the union every day.
80 Waukegan. Ill. additional depu-
'Nhere officials of the American Stesi
tSnd Wire Company announced thar
snndreds Of men would return to
'Work. IL
* Strike Ends at Coatesville.
-CoATEsvnLE. Pa, October g.
The steel strike in CoatesvilIe is end
edE The strike leaders this morning
: advised those men still out to hunt
!, Tor other jobs and go to work. When
the strike began two weeks ago. ZOO
:of the between 5000 and 5000 men
employed by the CoatesvfIle branch
Of the Midvale Steel Company and the
!: Lukens Steel Company quit work,
The number, Of strikers dvindled each
day until today there were about 800
still out
Almost Normal at steelton.
! HARRISBURG. Pa. October g.
Operations of Steelton plant OF the
] Bethlehem Steel Company were re-
: :eumed on An almost normal basis to-
day. Among the men returning to
work were many of the foreigners.
: who had been on strike for a week.
!: RITES FOB MRS. MAY.
:Was Energetic Worker in Church
and Institutions.