The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-06
mo STAMPEDE
BACK TO WORK
Pittsburgh District Makes At
tempt to Resume 0p-
erati0ns.
GARY MELEE FATAE
Boss" Dying of Wounds.
State Troops Ready to En-
force Martial Law.

Pittsburg, Pa. Oct. 6.-Whiis 4
number of plants in different parts
of the Pittsburg district started opsr-
ations today in varying degrees, thsrs
was no stampede back to work by
steel mill strikers.
IN the Uonora- M onessen sield,
where there has been a virtually 100
per cent shutdown since tho strike
began, five small mills had sufficient
men on hand to mako a start, com-
pany officials said.
About twenty pioksts were arrested
in the vicinity of steel mills In Mon-
essen charged with unlawful assem-
blage by state police, and five shots
wore fired at a street car filled with
men on their way to work. No one
was injured.
In the city Of Pittsburg there was
no notable change reported.
Anticipating serious trouble when
mill operators attempt to carry out
their promise to reopen the mills to-
day in the face of threats by union
leaders to oppose to the utmost any
effort to reopen the mills" Adjt. Gen.
Harry B. Smith, of Indiana, Is keep
ing close watch on the sitaution.
armed with an order for martial law
all signed, and giving him power to
assume military control.
Strike leaders have greatly in
creased the number OF pickets at the
steel mills. Eight companies of
militia are now at Indiana Harbor
with one battalion at Gary.
Numbered Hurt During Fray.
Klein d. Dunness, a boss in the
American Sheet and Tin Plate mill
at Gary, Ind, was reported dying to-
day of gunshot wound suffered Sum
day night in n clash between several
hundred strikers and special depu-
ties at the plant. According to the
authorities, more than 900 strikers,
mostly foreigners, planned stoning
the plant and to force their way past
| the guords to drag out non-union
| workers. The strikers were met at
! the gate OF the plant by squad OF
/ special guards and q battle followed
during which several were injured.
During the melee shot was fired,
the bullet striking Dunness, who was
standing In the doorway Of his home
here.
Prepared For Martial Law.
One OF the three great blast fur
naces of the United States Steel corr
| poration, at Clarion, which have
| been down." was blown in today.
| -Four large mills in Donora and Mon
/ essen, which had been closed tight by
| the strike, started this morning. Of
( ioI- nt OF
| cent. of their employees would return.
The Carnegie Steel company re-
ported that the largest force since the
beginning of the strike reported for
! duty on the night shift at its dif<
ferent plants in the district last night.
Two hundred and fifty policemen
were stationed at the plants of the
| National Tube company and the
Jones & Laughlin company in this
| city, early today after 1t had been re-
ported that trouble was threatened.
Everything was quiet with steady
| streams of workers going into the
| plants.
Fired on Car OF Workers.
The shooting at a street car hlled
| with workers and the arrest of
| twenty pickets marked the resumps
| tion OF operations in the Monessen
| plants. No one was hurt by the shots,
only one of which hit the car. Mems
| bers of the state police are search~
| ing for the gunman.
! EVERY American reported for work
| today" an official Of one Of the four
| plants to start said today.
The strikers committee was mark.
ing time today. Activity at head.
| quarters was restrained because OF
| the presence in washington of all the
| leaders who will confer tonight with
| the executive council of the Amer
| lean Federation of Labor over ways
| and means of conducting the strike.
No Effort to Operate.
| At Wheeling, w. Va, the steel mills
| at Weirton were the only ones to re.
| sumo operations in this district to-
day. No efforts were made to ops
| crate the plants in this city or Steu-
| benville. Ohio.
! Superintendent Williams of the
| Weirton plant said that sS per cent.
| of the Americans and a good many
foreigners reported this morning.
At Youngstown, o., no attempts
| were made to start operations in the
| steel plants of the Mahoning valley
this morning despite reports last
| week that the mills gates would open
| today. 1t was said large number OF
men were ready to go into the plants,
The steel strike in Coatesville, Pa.
is ended. The strike leaders this
| morning advised those men still out
to hunt for other jobs and go to
| work.
| When the strike began two weeks
! ago 100 of the between 5000 and
5000 men employed by the Coates
| willie branch of the Midvale Stee
company and the Lukens Steel com.
pany quit work. The number ol
! strikers dwindled each day until to-
| day there were about 300 still out.