The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-09-24
DISORDERS MARK
GREAT STEEL STRIKE
Police and Workers Clash
Monday
SEVERAL INJURED;
OTHERS ARRESTED
Eject Of Walkout Felt When Steel
Strikers Walk Out in Many Mills
In Steel District. Both Sides Settle
Down for Long Struggle. Birming-
ham District Unaiiectad.

ham District Unaffected.
The second day Of the great ST ug-
gle between the labor unions and tho
United States Steel corporation open
cd with the question as to the ex-
tent to which the industry has been
affected by the strike still uncertain,
canfused as it is by the conflicting
claims of the leaders on either side.
That the industry has been gravely
crippled in the great centers Of Pitts
burgh, Chicago and Youngstown was
certain and early reports yesterday
recorded several gains for the strik-
crS.
In the Birmingham district in Ala
bama the strike was said to be a dis
NAL failure.
The possibility of the spread of the
Strlkc to as yet unaffected plants was
more threatening yesterday. AT tho
Bethlehem works Of the Bethlehem
steel corporation where $4,000 men
are cmplOcd, tho union leaders an
honnccd that no reply had been re-
ctiNcd 10 their request for a confer
encc with the company officials and
mat preparations were being complct-
ca Tor calling out the workers.
RlotinG which broke out at the close
Oh me 'lrSt day Of the strike was re-
%lmod at different points this morn
ing. Thc known casualties so far arc
one man dead three others so bahlv
| wounded that they may die, and
scores more o. less severely wounded.
The fatality occurred in the Pitts
DUr&h district Every mill in Far
fcil, "a, was closed this morning but
"!d not prevent a renewal Of violence
IN which ii persons were wounded
Al Buffalo where The great indcprn-
oeht plant Of the lackawnnna Steel
company has been forced to SUSPEND
operations, according 10 police rc-
ports, rioting occurred last night and
VAS resumed this morning. The dis
ucr mere however was apparently
t so serious as in PENNSYLVANIA. The
h2Ancr Steel company, sister plant
OF thc Lackawanna. announced th,+
VI ratlon would cease tomorrow. In
cipIent rioting was reported from
Youngstown.
pittsburgh, Sept 21.-Clashes no.
''''eh pennsylvania state police and
owes bent on holding labor mass
heetlngs in the Pittsburgh district to-
oiy ushered in the strike in the iron
ana steel industry. The most serioua
disturbance occurred at North Clair
loh' twenty miles from Pittsburgh
late in the afternoon, where the state
troopers charged crowd of union
men holding a mass meeting and
Droke 1t up. Resistance was offered
and 1t is charged by union leaders that
thc mounted policemen used their
cluDs vigorously and injured a number
III the crowd. About a dozen men
were arrested. The meeting was
broken up at the request of local au-
thorities.
according to eye-witnesses, the
meeting was proceeding quietly when
the state police broke 1t up. The
crowd scattered and some ran up a
railroad embankment and threw
stones and other missiles at the troop
ers. During the melee, several in the
crowd were struck on the head by
the policemen, it was said. The crowd
soon scattered end as far as can be
learned no one was seriously injured.
During the melee the horse OF one of
the troopers sufl I'd broken leg.
1t is alleged that several shots were
iired by somcoro in the crowd.
William II. Foster, secretary of the
national committee for organizing
iron and steel workers, tonight said
that vigorous protest would be
lodged with the state government
against what he termed "murderOus
attack upon law-abidng people"
Some of the blast furnaces of the
Carnegie Steel company arc located at
Clarion.
There was slight disturbance at
McKccsport where union organizers