The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-23
STRIKE GROWS

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tomorrow. Incipient rrioting also was
reported from Youngstown.
Farrell. Pa. Sept. 23-More riot
| ing occurred today in Farrell, where
man was shot and killed last night
and several other persons injured.
| Many shotsswere fired in the new dis
| turbance today. The police say that
| at least eleven persons were struck by
| bullets
| ]. H Moody, burgess of Farrell, has
appealed to the sheriff at Mercer to
send deputies here to assist the local
authorities and the detachment of
state troopers on duty. Additional
state police as a result of last nights
| trouble have been ordered here. Many
cases of individual assaults are re-
ported Alvin Pfeiffer. of Farrell, was
suspected of going to one of the steel
plants and was attacked by several
persons with stones and bricks. Two
other men were shut UP in the old
Mercer county brewing plant. the
| police said, by strike sympathizers to
keep them from going to work. They
Fwere found and released.
During the trouble here last night
two horses of mounted troopers were
| shot.
Buffalo Riots Resumed.
/ Buffalo. N. Y. Sept 2S.-Rioting.
/
In connection with the steel strike, was
resumed early today.
/ Michael F. Murphy. general master
mechanic of the s-Iackawanna Steel
! Company. was seriously injured in
clash with strikers. Two arrests were
made.
During the night three riot calls
were answered by police reserves fol-
lowing street fights between police
| and strike pickets Seven persons
In On l. 70
the hospital with fractured skull
/ One hundred and forty switchmen
employed by the South Buffalo Rail-
way, an adjunct of the -Lackawanna
| plant, went on strike at o'clock this
morning, tying up switching within
the company yards.
More Troops TO Scene.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 23.-Two ad-
ditional troops of state constabulary
are en- route to the steel region on a
| special train from the eastern part of
the state. it was learned today. 1t
| is understood the ponce will be de-
trained at Greensburg and Butler and
distributed thru the various steel
towns.
Outbreak at New Castle.
At New Castle. seven persons. in
| Guiding two women, were wounded
during the same sort of outbreak.
| The Carnegie Steel company asserts
tHo IOHOWeQ an aNleIlpC OF
strike sympathizers to break into the
mill by tearing down the fence. City
| officials have asked that detach-
! ment of state constabulary be sent to
| Farrell. Rioting also broke out at
| Youngstown and other smaller CEN
ters, but the big Pittsburgh district
remained almost ominously quiet.
Today Is Vital.
Today is vital to both sides. The
| union leaders claim that more men
will be out of the mills today than
were out yesterday. The company Of
ficials assert that having overcome
their fear of union organizers and OF
being classed as a "scab," many men
Iwho remained away yesterday will re-
turn to the mills today.
| Clarion is looked upon by steel
men as the "Verdnn'' of the Carnegie
Steel company. Clarion must be held
if other plants of the organization are
the coke and many other by-products
| on which other mills work come. 1t
| was admitted last night that it had
been necessary to bank the furnaces
at Clarion and the finishing mill was
also closed The coke plant continued
to operate, however. With more men
reporting for work today the officials
| hoped to resume operations in other
| departments.
| William 2. Fosters latest figures
|
all sections. The seriousness of the
situation in the Chicago, Cleveland
and youngstown districts is not de-
| MED by company officials. but they
stoutly insist the union men have not
got as much as they claim in the Pitts
! burgh district. the heart of the indus
| try. Additional inroads were made in
| the district by the strikers toward the
| end of the day yesterday, but the mills
expected to gain back this ground to-
day.
| Cleveland, O., Sept. 23.-Of the
twenty steel mills in Cleveland, six
teen were closed, three seriously Grip
pied, and only one operating at nor
NAL today.
All plants of the American Steel &
Wire company, subsidiary of the steel
corporation. and the Mckinney Steel
| company, independent, were shut
down.
The Union Rolling Mill company
and the two blast furnaces of the otis
| Steel company were operating at
about so per cent capacity. The EN-
| pire Rolling Mill company, independ-
ent, is operating at normal by virtue
| of a contract with the Anal ga ated
/ Associa ton of Iron, Steel and Tin
| Workers. An effort was to be made
| today by the Otis company to open its
foundry. Police protection was de-
| manded.
H. w. Raisse. in charge of the strike
| in the Cleveland district, held to his
yesterdays figures of 10000 strikers.
HE said Unorganized workers were
being enrolled rapidly.
Gary Situation Unchanged.
Gary. Ind, Sept. 23.-With proba-
bly, $4,000 steel workers in the Calu-
| met district out, the second day of the
| - t-sI he eli. fzv.