Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-24
SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE MAY INTERVENE IN STEEL STRIKE;
 EDITH SIDE [ STANDING FIRM
Investigation Is Ordered Determine if Congress Can Relieve Situation; Union Secretary Says 327,OOO Men Are Parcpatng Crowd Told By State Constabulary to
 Disperse Fires VoIey; Bystanders and Miners Are Killed

big steel strike, continue to be made by the contending forces in the wide spread inustdrial contest now being waged.
 The leaders of the organized work CTS boldly claimed today that the strike is spreading and that thou sands of men who worked yesterday joined the walkout today. Predic- tions were made that plants still in operation would be closed tomorrow or Thursday and that no gains were made anywhere either by the United States Steel corporation, the princi- pal factor in the struggle, or by in dependent concerns.
 Representatives of the Carnegie Steel company, the largest subsidiary in the corporation, admitting that some of the plants are closed be- cause of a strike, claim that the situ- ation is better than it was yesterday. According to an authorized summary of conditions within the Pittsburgh district more men were at work at Homestead, Clairtown, Duquesne and and other places. "All told, the situ, ation is better than it was yesterday. The situation in the Monongahela valley, where our four big mills are located, is considerably improved and is encouraging" was the state ment of an official of the Carnegie company.
 Nearly Half a Million.
 William z. Foster, secretary of the national committee for organizing iron and steel workers, in charge of national headquarters here, said re ports received by him during the day from organizers and others in charge of steel districts show that 27.1O0 men are participating in the strike According to his figures, 5000 addi- tional men are out in the city of Pittsburgh; 5000 more at Braddock, and 5000 additional in Rankin, near here. He claims 10000 additional are out in the Chicago district and 5000 more in the Youngstown dis trict. and 5000 more in the Wheeling field. While not giving any figures, corporation representatives tonight disputed the figures, asserting if they were true, many of the districts in- cluded in Fister's list would be com pletely shut down, which is not the case. The United States Steel cor poration, according to reports, has not met with as much success in operating some of it's subsidiaries in other parts of Pennsylvania as has the plants of the Carnegie company in this immediate vicinity In sev' eral localities it's Smaller works were closed down when it was found in- sufficient men had reported to keep the plants in successful operation. Representatives of the Carnegie in- terests here declared that this was due to lack of adequate police pro tection for men willing to work.
 MT. Foster said steel workers were being arrested at Duqusne for being on strike and fined when they re- fused to return to work.
 The matter of financing the strike will also be taken up at the meeting, he said.
 "We are going to prepare to fight to the bitter end" he added. '1f itI is to be a long struggle we will be ready. It is fight for industrial democracy and the workers are de- termined to stick"
 When asked if Samuel Gompers
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