The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-28

back to work, having made a wage
agreement with the operators They
have provided, however. that they will
mine no coal for the steel plants still
affected by the strike.
The result of the announcement that
the American Sheet and Tin Plate COM
pany at Vandergrift would pay off to-
day all men who had not returned to
work had an Unexpectedly good result.
The company reported that this morning
1t lacked only 1b per cent. of its men.
Twenty-Five Of thirty-two OF its mills
were running.
Another Furnace starts.
Another Carnegie furnace has been
blown in at Farrell, where disorder
seems to have been definitely checked.
Open hearth furnaces and skelp mills
will be in operation on Monday.
In the American Sheet and Tin Plate
and other plants at New Castle 1o2 of a
total of leo mills were in operation to-
day. All showed gains over yesterday.
The plant of the McKeesport Tin Plate
Company at Port Vue, closed since the
strike began. is scheduled to open on
Monday. This plant was closed more
promptly than any others when the
strike opened and its resumption will be
hailed as notable victory, as the man
agement has been conservative on the
question OF operating throughout The
plant alone employs 5000 men.
At Homestead 1t was reported that
300 more men reported for work this
morning than showed up yesterday.
The most hopeful symptom reported
from Clarion was that the men who
went to work there to-day had carried
their dinner pals with them Since the
strike began the loyal men have sneaked
furtively into the plant In their Sunday
clothes, unwilling to Identify themselves
In the streets as workers To-day, bear
ing the traditional badge of the laborer,
they bravely marched into districts
hitherto the most troublous. They even
went through the Woodland path be-
tween North Clarion and Clarion,
where there was 80 much sniplng yes-
terday and the day before, until the
State police cleaned out the woods.
The Edgar Thomson plant, In the
stronghold OF the United States Steel
Corporation at Brsddock. reported to-
day that 1t had increased its tonnage
over yesterday by Is per cent
Fear Hotheads' Efforts.
Steel. officialsvnd the local authorities
diS OI what may Happen IL
plans OF certain hotheads among the
strikers for demonstrations and parades
in forbidden territory are carried out on
Monday Down along the Ohio and West
Virginia borders the situation Is by no
means settled.
The strikers who wanted yesterday to
parade from Ohio into Weirton, w. Va,
and whose activity caused an exchange
Of telephone messages between Gov.
Cornwell and Gov. Cox. said to-day that
they had merely postponed their efforts:
They announced that they will make
the demonstration on Monday, though
the cooler heads among them are coun-
selling against 1t and may yet dissuade
them.
There are rumors of big demonstra-
tons from Monessen down the valley
and even of a great pilgrimage to march
from Homestead into Pittsburg. These.
as open air gatherings, are forbidden by
the Sheriff and they will be broken UP
at all costs II they start. II they do
start they hold the possibilities of
pitched battle.
The fact that liquor 10 almost unpro-
durable in this district is admittedly GO
ing long way for law and order. The
strikers are gathering In the poolrooms.
the movie houses and the burlesque the
aires But they are getting Dutch cour-
age or rashness. The strikers themselves
admit that this is helping the spirit of
law among their ranks
prohibition Prevents Crime"
It's hard TO believe how we'll they
behave" said Thomas r, McQuade. the
veteran ex-Superintendent of Police in
Pittsburg. who. as cop and chief, has
gone through a score of the hottest In
dustrial battles in the region. And of
course prohibition is the reason"
Some efforts have been made TO get
moonshine liquor from the mountains
nnc from private stills in this nelshbor-
hood. Some efforts have had rough
shedding. however. For once all the au-
thorities, Federal. State and local. have
exercised fruitful vigilance
AS result no large shipments have
got in, though there is a tidy collection
of TASKS in the hands of the authorities,
The liquor has been found In every
Place from the back pockets Of tramps
to the ratters of the Church OF God,
which was being repaired at New Castle
yesterday and which yielded a dozen
TASKS. The unfortunate carpenters in
VOWED in the accident let one OF the
TASKS drop TO the sidewalk In front OF
a policeman and the we'll laid plans
were thrown into total disarray.