Arizona republican., 1919-09-29
RADICAL STRIKE. CHANGE IN FAVOR
 IF FLOWERS |S. EXPECTED TODAY
Steel Companies Confident Hundreds Will Go Back to Work-Union Leaders Say There Will Be No Break in Ranks
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

PITTSBURG, Sept. 2S.-Sunday passed quietly in the steel strike zone of the Pittsburg district. Strikers mass meetings were held in several parts of Allegheny county under the supervision of the authorities. The crowds gathered and dispersed without disorder.
 Steel companies expect tomorrow will show a radical change in their favor. Operating officials have been bending their efforts toward making a good showing when the plants resume operations of the week.
 Assurance that they would be pro- tected, company officials say, will lead thousands of men to return to the mills.
 Strike leaders express confidence that there will be no break in the ranks of union men. They do not expect the return of many men, and say the num- Der going back will be more than coun- terbalanced by those who join the walkout
 Speaking of the situation outside the Pittsburg district today, Secretary William z. Foster of the steel workers national committee, said the union ex- poets "every man in the steel plants of the Bethlehem Steel company against which the strike becomes effective to- morrow morning, will respond to the call.'
 Secretary Foster also said the drive against the Jones and Laughlin com parU in this city, the largest indepen- deuf plant in the Pittsburg field, is bearing fruit and the full effect will be felt tomorrow.
 Many organizers and strikers spent Sunday in making house to house can vases in mill towns to induce waver- ing men to join the strike.
 Reports that the strike was waning were vigorously denied at union head quarters. Telegrams were exhibited from several organizers asking that thousands of the red, white and blue union cards be hurried to them. we are much stronger today than the first day of the strike" Foster said.
 The organizer from the Sharon Far rell district reported that the men were holding solid" there, despite reports from company sources that strikers were gradually returning. He said that he employees of the Sharon Steel Hoop company last night voted not to return 10 work Monday.
 The south works of the Carnegie company at Farrell, which has been re- ported to be operating. is 'only running the machinery and not producing" the organizer said.
 C. J. Boyle, general organizer of the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers, arrived at headquarters today and said a corps of twenty of the brotherhood's best organizers was be- ing sent into the district to aid the workers.
 J. G. Brown, who was one of the lead CTS in the Seattle strike is investigat- ing all arrests of strikers by state and local police He said today that more than 150 union men are now locked uI in jails in Allegheny county.
 Following up the vote of confidence given Secretary Foster yesterday by tht national steel workers committee union headquarters today gave out g letter said to have been written by Judge Samuel Alschuler of the United States circuit court of appeals for thu seventh district, bearing on MT. Foster. alleged radicalism. The letter is dated Chicago, March 2S, 1919, and said 1T part:
 ''In his representation of the employe. in the various controversies before ms in which he participated he impressed me as particularly intelligent. honor. able. moderate, tactful and fair. If ir his earlier wanderings he imbibed fol 2 time fantastic. extreme and destruc. tive social ideas, l am sure there wa: nothing developed in the many confer.
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