New-York tribune., 1919-10-02
All the Foreigners Struck

Americans"
All the Foreigners Struck
This company's personnel statistics
arc interesting because of the light
they throw on the nationality factor in
the strike. Out of $500 men, 900 were
foreigners. They struck to man, and
only twenty or thirty have returned.
Only 500 OF the Americans went out,
and large percentage of them have
returned.
All the steel companies report sur
prise at the numbers Of new men re-
porting for work, although no effort
has been made to bring them in from
outside. They are largely returned SOL
dIers, farm boys and men who have
been employed in lines that have not
enjoyed the general increase in pay Of
recent years. They have read in the
papers of common labor getting IS or
$6 day and of semi-skilled labor get
ting 81 or So, and they have volun-
tarily decided to avail themselves of
the opportunity. At one mill to-day
saw absolutely green men stepping
into 81 and SO a day places at the open
heath furnaces.
All Plants TO Resume
The outlook now is that by the first
Of next week practically every plant in
the Pittsburgh district that is now
closed will undertake to resume in some
fashion. They all consider that the
situation has quieted to such an ex-
tent and is so firmly under the con-
troll of the police that they will be able
to work without moestation to the de-
gree that the number of men reporting
will make possible. Thereafter it will
be steady uphill fight, they say, un-
less the strike is called off or d panic
seizes the foreigners and they should
rush back to work
Reports received here from all other
steel centres indicate a general tend
ency to resume. The Youngstown plant
Of the Carnegie company is expected TO
start the latter part of the week, and
there viii be general effort to start
up again throughout the Ohio and
West Virginia districts, where suspen-
sion was complete.
Disturbances Are Feared
1t is feared that resumption there
will be accompanied by riots and fight
ing and there was ono conflict in
Youngstown to-dav as men went into
the Carnegie plant to get it ready for
operation. The strikers say that what
evc- success the early resumers may
have had. disappointment awaits any
attempt at general resumption and that
it viii prove their strength.
The Big Four" of the Carnegie
company in the lower Monongahela
valley are strengthening their posi-
lions daily with the possible exception
OF the Clarion plant, and, according
to company sources, Homestead has
regained so per cent of the men who
went out on September %. The Edgar
Thomson mills are steadily gaining,
and at McKecsport the companies are
declaring that the strike as serious
obstacle IS already a thing Of the past.
The Jones and Laughlin plants in
Pittsburgh and vicinity. though
strained by the loss Of number of
men, are still keeping production at
normal. Now, as at the beginning Of
the strike, the Carnegie "Big Four"
and the Jones and Laughin plants are
the commanding factors in the nation-
wide struggle
Strikers Issue Bulletin
The strike committees press bureau
began operations to-day with the is
suance Of 10000 copies of g bulletin
headed Don't Believe Lies-the Strike
Is Growing" The committee felt that
the press Of the country was not faith
fully depicting the strike situation, and
accordingly decided to transmit the
real facts itself. it starts out b.
saying:
The great steel strike is a tremen-
dous success. Over $4,000 steel work
ers are now on strike. The big mills