Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-29
STEEL COMP PANIES
FEEL CONF |DENT
STRIKERS RANKS
WILL THIN TODAY
- W. iss is of Men, Assured
~ They viii Be Protect
ed, Expect to Return to
Work Corporations Say.
EMPHATIC DENIAL IS
MADE BY UMI0MISTS
A Few Workmen May Return,
They Say, But They viii Be
More Than CounterbaIanced
By Those Who Walk Out.
10y MORNING 'ou0NA' srse,At LEASED WIRE

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Pittsburgh, Pa. Sept 2S.--Sunday
1 passed quietly in the steel strike zone
Of the Pittsburgh district Strikers
mass meetings We're held IN several
parts of Allegheny county under the
supervision of the authorities. Tho
crowds gathered and dispersed with
out disorder.
Steel companies expect tomorrow
will show a radical change in their
favor, Operating officials have been
bending their efforts toward making
good showing when the plants re-
sumo operations for the week.
Assurance that they would be pro-
tected, company officials say, will lead
/ thousands of men to return to the
mills.
Strike leaders express confidence
that there will be no break in the
ranks of union men. They do not ex-
pect the return of many men, and
say the number going back will be
more than counterbalanced by those
who join the walkout.
Speaking of the situation outside
the Pittsburgh district today Secre-
A.
tlonal committee said the union ex-
poets every man in the steel plalts
of the Bethlehem Steel company
against which the strike becomes ef-
fective tomorrow morning will re-
spond to the call"
Secretary Foster also said the driys
against the Jones q Laughlin COM
pany in this city, the largest inde-
pendent plant in the Pittsburgh field.
Is bearing fruit and the full effect will
be felt tomorrow
Many organizers and strikers spent
sunday in making house to house
canvasses in mill towns to induce
wavering men to join the strike.
Reports that the strike was wan
ing were vigorously denied at union
headquarters. kilograms were sx-
hibited from several organizers ask
ing that thousands of the red whits
and blue union cards be hurried TO
them, I'VE are much stronger today
than the first day OF the strike,''
Foster said.
The organizer from the Sharon
Farrell district reported that the men
We're holding solid there, despite re-
ports from company sources that
strikers were gradually returning. Hs
said that the employees of the Sharon
steel Hoop company last night voted
not to return to work Monday.
The south works of the Carnegie
company at Farrell, which has been
reported to be operating. is only run
ming the machinery and not produc-
ING, the organizer said.
G. j. Boyle, general organizer of
the international Brotherhood of
Electrical workers, arrived at head
quarters today and said a corps of
.wenty of the brotherhood's best or
yanizers was being sent into the dis
rict to aid the workers.
j. G. Brown, who was one of the
eaders IN the Seattle Ltrike, is in
all arrests of strikers by
tate and local police. He said TODAY
hat more than l50 union men are
low locked up in jaiis in Allegheny
ounty
Following up the vote of confidence
,iven Secretary Foster yesterday by
he National Steel Workers commit
ee. union headquarters today gave
ut letter said to have been writ
en- by Judge Samuel Alschuler, of
he United States circuit court of ap..
eals for the Seventh district bear
1g on Mr.. Fosters alleged radicalism
he letter Is dated Chicago, March
s, 1919 and says in part
In his representation OF the em-
loyes in the various controversies be-
ore me in which he participated he
me as particularly inteli-
ent. honorable moderate, tactful
nd fair II in his earlier wander
lgs he imb!bed for time fantastic,
Streme and destructive social ideas,
am sure there was nothing Develop
in the many conferences and hear
lgs in which he participated which
ould indicate that he still harbored
lem."
mass meeting today near Charlton
assed off quietly.
BY request of the sheriff's depu-
es only the English language was
,ed at the meeting.
There was little excitement near
e school house when striker was
lot in the head but not seriously
ounded. Authorities were not sure
e shooting had any connection with
e strike.
One man was shot and slightly
ounded and three others arrested,
hen a crowd of young men are al
ged to have attacked a deputy sher-
in Lawrenceville mill district to-
y None of the men concerned was