The sun., 1919-09-25

| than Pittsburg when you consider the
| conditions I'm very well satisfied on
| the whole. Pittsburg In the heart Of the
violence Of the whole strike And II II
| were not for that violence on the part OF
| the Cossacks and the local authorities
preventing our meetings and arrestlng
our organizers on their perfectly peace
able missions the Pittsburg mills would
not be running SO well as they are"
II Is this complaint OF violence against
the state police and the local authorities
| that he intends 60 play the hardest when
/ he gets to Washington tomorrow. He Is
going TO charge that his men have been
futhlessly deprived OF their constitutional
| rights.
''The world war;" he said to-day.
was started by q single postol shot and
| the sasslnati Of one man. AS mat
| ter of fact this whole trouble here was
precipitated when company guards so
brutally murdered Mary Smelling. Since
that time the violence and terrorism
| have been worse than they were In Col
orado or any place else that ever
heard Of"
Asked about radicalism IN his own or
ganization he replied:
Neither 1 nor the organization has
ever violated the law or set ourselves up
against the Government. That's why
business. They're acting under color of
law"
f. p. walsh to Help Strikers.
To solve this question the conference
to-day called Frank p. Walsh on the
telephone and II was announced later
that Mr.. Walsh would come on from
New York for the specific purpose OF
trying to protect the strikers legal
rights.
To-day. in contrast with the previous
days OF the strike the companies gave
specific figures and the workers confined
themselves to generalities in their state
ments. In the critical Homestead
region, which includes Duquesne, Nc
Keesport, Rankin and Clarion. the COM
panies reported gains early in the day
that the strike leaders did not specific
ally deny.
Braddock. Rankin. Tarentum, Brack-
enridse and Natrona all showed In
| creased operations for the day. though
the companies claimed only insignificant
accessions to their working forces.
At vandergrift. which the strikers
have claimed all along as shut down.
the companies announced that twenty
sheet mills were in full operation.
One additional furnace was restarted
at Braddock. Most important of all, the
Cargnegie company got two more OF its
Carrie blast furnaces in operation at
Rankin. Gains were made also in the
operation of the by-products plant at
Clarion, upon the output of which de-
ponds the operation Of scores OF other
big works in the district.
From New Castle came the report
| that the American Sheet and Tin Plate
Company had twice as many hot mills
1 IN o
| McKeesport the National Tube plant was
| reported to be working without diff
Guilty, though the other plants In that
town remained badly hampered II not
| shut down by the strike.
In the Farrell-Sharon region, where
shootings have been the most frequent
| and where clashes between crowds and
| the local police and State troopers have
been almost constant, better order was
reported to-day.
Says "Red Flag Has to Co."
| This Improvement was typified when
J. II. Moody. the doughty burgess Of
| Farrell. who with little sleep has been
on his feet leading the forces of law and
order since Saturday night, declared:
| The red flag has got to go. There's
| only room for one fag-the stars and
| Stripes-in Farrell"
Then he went to bed.
| Moody's forces have been augmented
| by twenty more State troopers. They
made their presence felt there to-day
when a forbidden meeting was at
| tempted by the strikers. With the State
police ready on their horses the former
workers gave up the idea, trudged seven
I miles to cross the Ohio State line and
were addressed by some of the leaders.
|. Blast furnaces nevertheless continue
| TO be hard hit in this region by the lack
| of labor. OF the fourteen in Farrell,
Sharon, Sharpsville and Middlesex only
three were operating to-day.
| In Pittsburg itself the condition re-
manned about stable all day, with most
Of the big plants operating, but special
departments are badly crippled by the
lack OF both skilled and unskilled labor
| The strikers were aole to report no sig
nificant gain in their efforts TO unionize
and cal; out the Jones & Laughlin plant,
the biggest OF the local independents.
Those in attendance at the strikers
conference here to-day included Harry
J. Stahl of the foundrymen, William
Harmon OF the machinists. Joseph G..
ISouse Of the boilermakers ]. Manly Of
the structural iron and steel workers and
d. ]. Davis OF the Amalgamated Asso-