The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-23
Rioting Breaks Out Anew in
Farrell, Pa.-EIeven
Shots Fired.
OPERATORS Confident
Predict Victory at End of
Month Mother" Jones
On Hand in Pittsburgh.
(BY GEORGE r. HOLMESl

national News Service. AFTER a
night of incipient rioting in half a
dozen towns in the Pittsburgh dis
rlct, during which two persons were
Killed and eleven others suffered gun
shot wounds, the situation in the
strike areas was reported quiet this
morning.
state troopers. reinforced by spe-
clal police and deputies were every-
where in evidence in the mill towns,
patrolling the streets and preventing
anything. which gave the appearance
u crowds or congestion about the
mil entrances or in the streets.
The principal disorders occurred in
FARRELL, New Castle and Donora.
mere were minor disturbances in
other cities, none of which attained
ne seriousness of these three points.
IN Farrell two men We're killed and
three injured. The trouble started.
Is said, when Paul Prouse,
striker, took pot shot at State
trooper Smith, who was riding down
The street. Smith was hit in the leg
and Prouse was then killed, according
20 reports by Andrew Winbeknecht,
special policeman. This proved
riot started which ragged for several
hours before the authorities sue
ceeded in getting it under control.
Included in the seven shot in New
, castle were two women, both of
Whom appear to have been nonpar-
nclpants in the disorders. Hundreds
Of shots were fired.
Another man was shot in Donora,
where there were slight disorders
when the night shift came on. Home
stead. where the bloody riots of 1892
occurred was the scene of some dis
order during the night. but was quiet
his morning.
Further trouble is feared today as
= result of orders from strike head
quarters to the strikers to picket
every plant in the district. There
was little picketihg done yesterday,
out today William a. Foster, secre-
;ary of the iron and steel workers
lnion, declared the work to be under
aiken in earnest.
With the battle well begun, both
sides apparently settled down today
Yor finish fight. At strikers head
quarters 1t was asserted that the fig
ores on the number Of strikers on,
he first day have been greatly in
creased
operators StIll silent.
The operators maintained b their
usual silence. but all of the mills
which opened on the first day con-
.inued operations
Opinions as to the probable dura-
;on OF the strike varied here today.
William z Foster asserted that the
strike would last until Ebert n,
iary agreed to meet representatives
of the workers in conference" F
In steel circles today it was pre-
1icted that the strike would last
month and the operators would win
the strike in the last week of that
month.
But little change in the operating
situation was apparent today. The
! operators stronghold at Homestead,
'ouquesne, in Pittsburgh proper,
opened for business with the usual
shifts.
"Mother'' Jones on Hand.
Mother" Jones. the fiery old god
mother to all strikers, who has been
IN every big industrial dispute for
pearly half a century, is here. Due
20 advancing age, however, she is not
as active as in years gone by, al
though she still addresses meetings
and gives counsel to "her boys"
Walkout Closes Plants.
Pittsburgh, Sept. 23.-Braddock
and Rankin plants of the American
steel and Wire company, both of
which operated yesterday at de-
creased capacity, were closed today
FOR an indefinite period. These plants
employ approximately 10000 men, in
'luding great numbers of foreign
speaking Iaborers. 1t was due to the |,
HaIkout of Iaborers that the plants
we're closed.
$4,000 Out in Valley.
Youngstown, o., Sept. 23.-Quet |
'eigned throughout the Mahoning
ALLEY last night, where union officials /
,'aimed approximately $4,000 men are
m strike in the steel industry.
Only two Of the big steel compa
1es were making any attempt to
Youngstown Sheet and Tube COM
osny and the Carnegie Steel com
osny. Both companies, however, ad
nit they are badly crippled. The /
Carnegie company is expected to an
1ounce complete suspension at any
lime. Yesterday officials announced ,
they would suspend unless more men .
reported for work.
Railroad men who conferred with |
President w. G. Lee, of the Brother
rood Of Railroad Trainmen, in CIeve-
and yesterday. were advised that |
where they have agreements with the /
on duty, but that where no agree
rent is in effect the majority should |
.ule. Most of the trainmen, union of
iciaIs say, already are out.
Shut Down at Buffalo.
6uHaIo, Dec. 23.-Announcement |
was made shortly before noon today /
hat the Lackawanna Steel plant,
which has been employing anywhere
from, 5000 to 10000 men for the past
year, had shut down this morning
On account of the steel strike. The |
plant Of the Donner Steel company
will close tonight.
At Farrell, Pa, more rIoting oc-
:urred today. A man was killed last
tight and several other persons in
ured. Many shots were fired in the
hat at least eleven persons were
struck by bullets.
j. Fl. Moody, burgess OF Farrell,
as taken personal charge of the po-
ice of Farrell. He appealed to Sher-
If Gibson at Mercer to send deputy
sheriffs here to assist the local au-
horities and the detachment of state
roops on duty. Additional state po-
ice, as a result of last nights trou-
ole have been ordered here.
Many cases of individual assaults
we're reported by the police.
AT Coatesville. Pa, twelve hundred
men were on strike al the Midvale
Steel Ordnance corporation branch
lere and five hundred at the plant
IF the Lul<ens Steel company. Both