The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-10-04
OPERATORS Gain
IN PENNSYLVANIA
Elsewhere There Is Not Much
Change in the Steel Strike
Situation.
CLAIMS AT BETHLEHEM VARY
Prominent Residents of Sharon Defend
State ConstabuIary Against Charges
of BrutaIity-Senate Committee
Is Going to Pittsburgh.

New York, Oct. 1.-The ninth day
of the national steel strike showed lit
tie change in the situation generally,
except for continuation Of gains by
the operators in the Pittsburgh and
western Pennsylvania district. There
conditions are rapidly approaching nor
NAL in the principtl plants, with more
men returning to work.
The confidence of Wall street in the
strikes ineffectiveness was apparent
when Crucible Steel rose to new high
level and other steel stocks were steady
with slight gains.
The extension of the strike to the
Bethlehem plants apparently has had
little effect on the situation generally.
The plants continue operation al
though some departments are Grip
pied.
Elsewhere In the Cleveland, 1Ounss-
town, Chicago and Wheeling districts,
the situation was unchanged with
plants for the most part idle.
At Waukegan, ILL.,, strikers clashed
with deputies and state authorities
We're ready to dispatch state troops to
the scene il necessary.
Claims Are Conflicting.
Bethlehem, Pa, Oct. 1.-The same
conflict of figures which featured the
initial stages of the steel strike in
Pittsburgh prevailed at the Bethlehem
plants here. Officials of the plants
said the situation was improved all
around and that many men who stayed
away from the mills to see how things
turned out returned to work.
The strike leadero3 this district, Da-
( vSid Wifliaifis, anh6unted etIFHt the
| strike was approximately 30 per cent
effective in most departments al.
! though admitting that the departments
for treating castings, the bridge shop,
ore bridge yards hoists, and crucible
hammer are operated fully.
"Bricklayers and pipefitters are out
90 per cent" he said ''All the blast
furnaces are out save two. The sit
.uation is satisfactory for the men"
AT Sharon ana aTTell'
From Sharon and Farrell came re-
| ports that with the resumption there
| of the American Sheet and Tin Plate
company's plants all of the larger
plants in the district are again in op-
| Grafton. Only some Of the smaller
plants remain closed
Mill officials claim that more than
1000 strikers have returned to work in
the past few days.
Newcastle reported that all plants
are operating now, many of them near
| ly up to full capacity.
Defend State constabuary.
Sharon, Pa. Oct. Fifty proml-
nent residents of Sharon joined in
making and sending affidavits to SEN
I ator Kenyon at Washington, denying
strikers claims that the state con-
stabulary here is brutal in handling
steel workers who went out on strike.
| The state troops We're necessary, the
affidavits said, TO suppress disorder and
rioting which had got beyond control
of the local authorities.
Senators Going to Pittsburgh.
Washington, Oct. 1.-The senate
will carry its investigation Of the steel
strike directly into the trouble-ridden
Pittsburgh district next Friday. Sena
tor William S. Kenyon chairman Of
| the education and labor committee of
| the senate, announced that unless the
League of Nations situation in the SEN
| ate interferes, his committee which is
conducting the Investigation of the
strike, will reopen its investigation
(! Friday in Pittsburgh and continue 1t
for three days, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday.