The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-28
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Pittsburg, Pa. Sept. 27.-The close
Of the first week of the steel workers
strike was not expected to see any
radical changes in the situation. Both
sides today virtually marked time
waiting for Monday when both steel
companies and strike leaders expect
changes Steel company officials said
they did not expect any considerable
number Of men to return to the mills
day but did look for a general influx
with the beginning Of the new week
Strike leaders are prepared for any
alleged attempts of the companies to
make a breach in the ranks Of the
strikers Mass meetings We're plan
ned for late this afternoon, tonight and
tomorrow in a number of places, in the
expectation of holding the men al
ready out and persuading workers to
join the strikers. There has been Il
great concentration Of organizers in
this district to spread strike and every
effort will be made to shut down the
big plants of tine Carnegie steel Com
pIny that are stir in operation in this
section. Renewed efforts to bring out
the Jones END Laughlin men in the
district also is to be made.
Chicago Sept. 27.-More mills at the
United States Steel Corporation plant
nj Gary, Ind. open with officials
claiming $500 men ut work: approx
mateiy 1000 men on the job at the
Illinois Steel Company mills, at Chi.
cago. with some sheets actually rolled
yesterday; an answer awaited to an
appeal to Washington by employees Of
the Inland Steel Company, and a fed
eral injunction against plcketing at
the plant Of the Pollock Steel Com.
pany at Chicago, sums up the situa
tion in general in the steel strike in
the Chicago district as the sixth day
Of the walkout began.
Conflicting claims by Industrial
heads and labor leaders as minor riot
ing at the Illinois Steel Company and
at Gary, marked passage Of the firth
day of the strike.
From Gary also came a report that
several cases of rifles had been taken
into the United States Steel Corpor.
atoms plant and that 800 rifles we're
sent into the American sheet and tin
mills Four to five hundred guards
were said to be on duty and were to
be augmented by four hundred.
The temporary injunction against
picketing at the Pollock plant in south
Chicago is returnable before Judge
Lands Tuesday. The company repre-
sented that "A federal contract for rail
road axles was being held up and that
50 per cent of the employees desired
to return to work tomorrow.
The appeal Of the Inland Company
workers was addressed to Senator Ken
yon and contradicted statements by
John Fitzpatrick, Of the steel work
ers' union, before the senate investi-
eating committee. Nearly ninety per.
cent of the 1000 employees want to re.
turn TO work; the company wants to
operate and the men have nothing to
strike for" the telegram read
Youngstown, Ohio, Sept 27.-Em.
ployes of the Ohio works who held a
meeting last night voted 81 to 29 to
return to work when the proper time
presents itself" according to a state
ment given out after the meeting. A
committee was appointed, the state
ment said, to induce railroad men in
the mill yards to join in the movement
to return.
Gary. Ind, Sept. 27.-Observers re-
ported that more strikers returned to
work tQday at the Indiana Steel Com,