Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-03
TROOPS REFUSED
IN STEEL STRIKE
Authorities at Waukegan, Ill, Re-
quested Militia Be Sent to
Keep Order.
ANOTHER PLANT IS OPEN
Illinois Steel Company in South CHI
cage Puts Mills in Operation
Mob Stones Foreman's Auto
Pittsburgh Strikers Aided.

Chicago, Sept. 27.-TwO hundred
deputy sheriffs were sworn in at Wau-
kegan to be in readiness to quell fur
| Their disorders among striking employ
ees of the American Steel & Wire COM
pany. An appeal was made to Gov
ernor LOWden for state troops, but
Adjutant General Dickson, after a Wis
it to the city, decided that Sheriff Ell.
mer j. Green could handle the situa-
| tion by mastering large force of dep
! uties He declined to call out the
militia at present. All was quiet about
| the wire works during the morning.
Another mill of the Illinois Steel
company's South Chicago plant was
placed in operation today and the act
ual manufacture of steel begun for
the first time since the calling of the
strike.
Even union officials admitted that
the activity in the plant was no longer
| camouflage-for the characteristic
glow of steel was in the sky all
night and the extension Of activities
indicated an increasing operating
force
The duplex mill was manned and re-
| opened and preparations made to fan
| to flame the banked fires under two
more furnaces.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 27.-Interest
in the steel strike situation in the
Pittsburgh district conferred today
| about the fight of the union for "the
right of free speech and free assem-
blage" in Allegheny county, question
which has been prominent here for
many months and which was brought
to head by the walkout of steel
workers.
According to union representatives,
| authorities of certain cities and towns
in the country have refused to grant
permits for the holding Of mass meet
ings, and have sanctioned the breaking
up of such sessions by state troopers
and local police in many instances.
According to union representatives,
the sheriff has given them permission
to hold indoor meetings within the
county, and has promised protection
for orderly gatherings Of strikers in
| halls.
Youngstown, O., Sept. 25.-Ohio's
greatest steel center, the Mahoning
valley with the city Of Youngstown
as its axis, is completely shu, down.
No dark clouds of smoke indicating
activity of thousands of workmen
/ obscure the skies. The sun shines un-
/ INSTRUCTED.
The steel strike has resulted in the
closing of every mill in the valley
Forty-four thousand men are idle and
weekly wages aggregating approx
mately $2,5O0OOO are unearned and
unpaid.
Pittsburgh, Pa. Sept. 25.-Disorders
! incident to the strike continue in the
| Pittsburgh district. The most serious
outbreak occurred at Farrell, Pa,
where two men were killed during
clash between strikers and their
sympathizers and state troopers. In
the disorders of Monday and Tuesday,
at Farrell, Newcastle and other points,
four persons have been killed. more
than a score shot, many others have
been slightly wounded and hundreds
of arrests have been made.
i Cleveland, Sept. 25.-Four men were
stabbed two probably fatally and two
i others not so severely, at the entrance
of the American Steel and Wire COM
i pany's Newburg plant in the first seri-
Gus local disorder of the steel strike.
The trouble broke out when car
Il etnnnnd t0 LOT off worknpn