Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

At the Carnegie plant at Duquesne, tn,
company said its information was that
the works were in 100 per cent
operation.
Newcastle Mills Work
At Newcastle the Carnegie rolling
mills and blast furnaces were reported
in good shape. with one furnace bank
down, and with all the men concen
| trated on the other furnaces.
All the plants Of the Carnegie Com
pany within the city Of Pittsburgh were
reported to the company, 1t was said,
as operating close to 100 per cent.
| Summing up, the representatives Of
the company said the situation might
have been worse" He said that, in all
pIants where men failed to report they
we're nearly all foreigners.
Mr., Foster said his reports showed
that the Carnegie plants at Donora and
Monessen were completely shut down,
n total of three men reporting for work
in the two places.
Representatives Of the Jones d
Laughlin Steel Company reported that
all the plants Of the company are work
| ing 100 per cent.
| From labor. corporation and police
sources came the information that there
was no trouble reported anywhere in
the Pittsburgh district during the early
hours Of the strike.
Strikers Mostly Foreigners
Information from the employers side
Nhat ha Sfrika 1tpn
is sharply drawn between Americans
and foreigners The Americans. it was
said. went to work, while the for
sigrprs we're, in the big ma jority, among
the strikers.
Blast furnaces. according to company
sources. where the largest percentage Of
foreigners are employed. were the hard
est hit. The furnaces, it was said, were
expected to he the weakest spots from
the corporation point Of view.
Reports from the West Penn and
Allegheny Steel Companies were TO the
effect that 35 per cent Of their men.
virtually all foreigners. failed to report
for work.
| Secretary Foster, at union headquar-
! ters, later said that reports from out
side Of the Pittsburgh district show the
! shut down general.
At the same time Mr.. Foster an
nounced that meeting of the national
committee would be held in Pittsburgh
| Wednesday morning.
Reports from McKeesport were that
| all steel plants in that part of ALE
| ghpny county. except the McKeesport
| Tin Plate Company at Port Nue. which
was closed for an indefinite period last
night. were operating. Some plants
were reported as normal and others RS
! working "a per cent of their force. ant
still others that their works were short
handed but in operation.
Officials Of the Shelby plant of the
| National Tube Company at Ellwooc
City. Pa. said the works were in opera
ton. although short some of its foreign.
! born labor.
Exodus Of Workers Begins
Many families at Clarion and North
| Charlton are leaving town Some are
going to Europe and others to different
parts Of the United States. The same
movement was noticed at Braddock
where the railroad station baggage
room was piled high with baggage.
The lone mill at ConnellsviIle-tha
of the Sligo Iron and Steel Company
was in operation today. its $50 en-
ployps having voted not to strike, com
pany officials said.
The police of North Braddock are
| investigating the circumstances sur
| rounding an attempt early today of two
men to enter the home of w. !. Dixon
superintendent of labor and transpor
tation of the Edgar Thompson .Stee
| Works. The house was under guard
and when the men were discovered the,
exchanged shots with special policemen
and disappeared. The police are no
sure that robbery was the motive.
Dawn found mill guards, borough anC
city police, the mounted Pennsylvania
state police, volunteer guards. deputy
sheriffs, detectives and other guardians
of the law on duty for any emergency
Likewise. the strike leaders in every
steel mill community were abroad in
structing strikers and pickets in theii
duty and persuading men on their way
to work to turn back and join in thu
strike. Early reports indicated tha
hundreds of men were turned back il
various communities.
Full protection. as far as could b,
made, was given to men who determined
TO go to work, the streets and road,
leading to the mills in every steel com
munity in the Monongahela, Allegheny
and Ohio valleys being patroled by
armed guards.
First Clash Occurs
The state police had their first clast
with crowds Sunday afternoon in Nortt
Charlton and near McKeesport, wher,
they broke up mass meetings at the re
quest of local police officials. Strik'
leaders charge that a number of per
sons in the North Clarion crowd wer,
severely hurt in the clash there.
Resistance was offered at Nortl
Charlton, and it is charged by unior
leaders the mounted policemen use'
their clubs vigorously an injured
number in the crowd. nineteen per
sons were arrested, some of whom wer,
\ brought to the county Jail. The meeting
was broken up at the request of loca
authorities.
According to witnesses, the meetin
was proceeding quietly when the stat
police broke it up. The crowd scattere
) and some ran up railroad embank
, ment and threw stones and other mis-
siles at the troopers. During the mele
several in the crowd we're struck on tn
, head by the policemen, it was said
: The crowd soon scattered and. as ia
! as can be learned, no one was injure
= seriously. Several shots were fired b
= some in the crowd, the police say.