Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-24
.GOMPERS TO MEET
STRIKE LEADERS|N
PITTSBURGH TODAY
National Organization Com
mittee of Steel Workers
Will Gather.
FOSTER SAYS RAILROAD
PHASE TO BE DISCUSSED
Carnegie Company Declares Sit
uation Is Rapidly Improv-
ing in Its Mills.
MAJORITY OF MILLS OPERATE
Pittsburgh District Affected to
Smaller Extent Than ANY Other.
Western Centcrs Crippled.
MAJORITY OF MILLS OPERATE
IRv Universal servIce.l

PITTSBURGH, Sept 23.-The possi-
bility of settlement of the steel strike
being brought about by the meetings
OF the national committee on organi-
cation OF iron and steel workers here
tomorrow w2s freely discussed tonight.
At union headquarters however. it
was denied that any overtures for a
settlement were under way It was re-
ported that Samuel Gompers. president
OF the American Federation of Labor,
Is to be present at tomorrow's meet
ing.
Secretary William z. Foster. of the
orsanizins committee. said the most
important question to come before the
meeting would be the railroad phasa
of the strike.
AT foungstow. and other points,.
nc said, the railroad men have res
FUSED to haul steel to or from the mills.
hoods Will stand by and see our men
beaten and killed without coming to
our aid. -1''~'-- -
wheeling Company Signs Up.
xctosy os stosfs tonsnt ssGrsd Sben tna
Steel and Iron Company capituIateS
ana ana signed the union agreement pro-
nfdins for new wage scale, revision
ot working hours and improved plant
conditions. Shortly afterward the
spang- -chalfant Company's plant, Just
'AtSiuC VI Wheeling, smut down.
pletely. after an Intellectual attemnt 70
keep running. ~
The union men were also encouraged
tSe p 'he Am msr;ca S!0sing down OF two plants of
IN ino Hraddock and Rankin and the clos
,hg ,hg OF the syers and oliver plants on
isolatsd S opth ,he SIDE 1deos OF Pittsburgh This
;ne second largest Independent pIant
has, IN the S country. co, which has stood up
De61 oreani1ars or al since 3c the strike began.
this plant today. many of the men he
ing ing reached by pickets as the shifts
AT me reports reaching him from the
valley tonight. e
Expect to Halt Jones Plant.
plant" n's he @as SAID deelaTed Tna, to be safe
Well soon have the whole i5o,oSraSy; i5'ooo msn
On W,,h the Jones & Laughlin payroll.
Whoe eh dIsirIeff ks o,a an even break the
day. but it's coming around to that 70
All Nv we ,r1 need Is little more time"
The Trumbull and Liberty mills .t
Marren shut down completeiy tonirh,t
vris vnis makes the tie-up in the MahoninG
Valley complete.
:, The Carnegie Steel Company. in
S.atement given out tonight, said there
Vas Vas general improvement in ths
f;yeat'on Eveat mai in all the eompsnys mills,
IN IN me Duquesne mills tonight and in
sIeaSed gains were reported at Home
Agents OF the Depa NJ 1ust,o.
nippeared In Pittsburgh tonight MAXIM
John TT'rIsf Fitzastn;t aoogt Secretary Foster and
tlonal committee, who is to nreside sIe ma. :.
tomorrow's meeting. ISSUE ae
any investieaton, ss Sa,d m ne saSld would welcome
10 10 make He said Fitzpatrick wnu,a ~nSd
PROBABLY leave for washington ~ sn
after af a. ~ the nearing fixed for Thursday.
meeting. - 'oihorrows
Les, Violence Than Expected.
bad adhnpahS hnen oti1cials said tonight there
had had oeen esner,a much less violence than they
were held in several Of the stees ss'f1kers 1
0uitside o the city today. without owns ;
various sections involved in 't6n t6n me
ior'he 70 he showed shs the Pittsburgh distriet
majority G .1e Of feaS, m,,s affected of ali The
we're running today. some Of then, n.'.Ity ,r;1
that $1,000 fnrses; men had It was estimated
Nils Nils In other districts. howcver work. @
badly crippled. "o"eVer' We're
steei w'iiiSm Wnriz.r = Foster; secretary of the
men tbs, in the industry have the euj, js,So;oo9
The Iron 1oiipde's and steaS tiSe-qp Is imminent.
sfSSniting fSis the companies, took issue eepfe pitt
showins hS iseement tbat ,,s and put out reports t
are not 1e aeeedp feaedpende1t and plants
stssl oent - per eent OF the United statess ofs
Quit. most pofations or ,Snss employees havs
f''tf Of the wess me, of t the Ohio River Manly a
said to have decided to retnr,. are
Pin Hopes to Railroad Men.
bopnse ne union leaders now pin their
onerotioo d complete tie-up on co.
toGs toSsy to The bsvs vtrainms1 in1 were reportsS reported
Steel mill officials that thew vii, In the the
nan nana,e n,Sa ears from plants empioy@inS ing
News that the United States senate
and and thsf dheeided fad1e to Investigate the Strike
eorporation and John Fitzpatrick. lesd'.
FOR 70 o examInafiae :me s,fiae had been summoned
we.itcomed by the union leaders TO-DAY.
ar finS nSy business" said Secretary Fos-
oopp1nT. the. steel trust out Into the
When shown a Washington despatch
auotng Representative Cooper a,s say
ing that Foster was unit TO DC an
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