The evening world., 1919-09-26
STEEL STRIKE APPEARS DEADLOCKED,
EACH SIDE WAITING OTHERS MOVE

district the surcst way to avoid dis
turbaucc by dangerous elCmD IS 20
keep them behind the barrier at in1.
starting point.
Therefore this is a minority
strike. Outside Of the radicals
who are running the strike and
the men who are ont because most
OF them believe This is the curtain
raiser Of an industrial drama
which will put the laboring man
in control Of industry, the people
in general are Indifferent or an.
tagonistic.
And this In the face OF such con-
ditions as am about To describe.
In Brlddock yesterday the site of
the Edgar Thomson steel Works, the
scene OF bloody and destructive strike
incidents In the past, the main street
was crowded with strikers, There
was no evident attempt on the part
OF the authorities "a enforce the law
proclaimed by the sheriff in his riot
act that not moro than three persons
shah assemble together In any public
place.
Mounted state policemen patro,led
the thorOughfarcs, but DID not inter-
fere with the men on the sidewalks
Occasionally local policemen made
passaS Scways through the crowds for
pedestrians, just as New York police
men do when there is n sidewalk
jam.
why Is this?" / asked "A labor
leader, who was showing me through
the borough
"Thc cossacks amounted pol!cel,"
he replied, "are just waiting for 4 biz
crowd 70 gather, and then they will
ridc in and club hell out OF every
body"
HAS that been done in this striker
| asked.
mot yet" was the response, but
we haven't given them chance
We are law abiding. At any minute
you may see those fellows charge
| down the street with clubs drawn
and revolvers ready trying to incitc
! the people TO resistance. That IL
why they are letting the crowds
| yathCr"
didn't believe my friend the labor
leader, nor aid h"l "ve policeman,
who told me a little later tha- tue
non ON the streets were not strikers,
but workmcu waiting to go Into the
| mills on the 8 30 o'clock shift When
| $50 came, however I was Ia Home
| stead, the blood SOAKED hoid OF COM
! hnt in the greet strike OF 1892,
! Homestead was what might he
called "all agog" when we drove into
! ne DlSlltNN part bE lHt Town I'LL
| i-0W ~" l." f~Out ~ ~" fiTo station
! where the chief Of Police and half
! dozen assistants We're largely en-
| aged in chewing tobacco. Two New
| York newspaper Dhotogru piers In
| formed us that b,g raid or search
| tor firearms in the homes Of strikers
| wos - ho sto~od us the workers
changed shifts in the mills at 5,BJ,
Soon after 5 the streets were filled
| with women and children nocklng TO
| the avenues leading from the gates
! OF the mills. Ten Pennsylvania
| mounted police, most OF them plainly
| cN-service men Of the United states
| Cavalry, rode down the main street
| and scattered As they divided by
| twos the people assembled on the
| sidewalks scurricd into their houses
| and street corner groups dissolved.
| There was no search for firearms
! and the procedure of changing shifts
in the mills was no more tumultuous
than the lunch hour in Union square.
But We had ample opportunity to see
| why things were so peaceful.
The borough policemen, and coal
| and iron police were quite inactive.
! The mounted cnnstahularY rode
| through the streets warning every
body to get inside fence lines or in
| side doors where there were no fence
lines We saw only two or three pro-
! tests against the order and in one