Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-24

I 1 out in the Chicago territory and B. | 900 more in the Youngstown district and 5000 more in the Wheeling field. | While not giving any figures, cor | poration representatives tonight dis l puted the figures, asserting if they were true many of the districts in l cluded in Fosters list would be com | pletely shut down. which is not the case.
 ! The United States Steel Corpora ton. according to reports, has not met with as much. success in opera ting some of it's subsidiaries in other parts Of Pennsylvania as it has the plants of the Carnegie company in this inn mediate vicinity In several localities it's smaller works were closed down had reported to keep the plants in successful operation. Representatives of the Carnegie interests here dec1ar- ed that this was due to lack of ade- quate police protection for men will ing to work.
 Disturbances at Farrell.
 Following last nights riot at Far was another disturbance today dur ing which tow men were shot and slightly wounded. At Newcastle where seven were wounded last night, the situation was in complete control of the authorities. Many arrests were
 
 the law.
 Two more troops of the state police were brought to the western part Of the state today and distributed at points where local authorities clai i'm conditions are unsafe Secretary Foster. of the steel workers commit tee. charges that much of the dfsor- der is the result of the presence of the state troopers. Today he de- nounced their alleged action in riding into the crowds and iniuring innocent persons. He asserted that in Home stead certain sections of the borough were today kept in a tumult as a re- suit of the way the. state police rode into groups of idle men and dispersed them.
 The national committee for organ zinG iron and steel workers will meet here tomorrow for the purpose of dis cussine strike progress and making arrangements for prolonging the struggle.
 Not to Discuss "Peace PIans.v
 MT. Foster said tonight that the committee had not been called to dis cuss any peace plans" but would devote its time to problems that have arisen as a result of the strike.
 The first matter to be taken up will be that of the unprovoked as sault of the state police upon innocent strikers said Mir Foster. They can not get away with such actions much | longer. We are going to demand that the troops be taken out of the district or their activities curbed.
 All information regarding the as- | saults on strikers and their brutal tac- tics in the district have been reported i to my ofhce. It is my intention to place i this information before the committee 1 Appeal will probably be made to the governor and the sheriff of Allegheny | county to furnish protection for the strikers against the state troopers"
 Mir. Foster said steel workers were being arrested at Duquesne for being out 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 i MT Foster said.
 Fight to the Bitter End.
 We are going to prepare to fight to the bitter end," he added If il is to be lon gstruggle we will b ready. It IS 2 light for industrial democracy and the workers are determined to stick
 When asked of Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation ot Labor, would attend the conference a1r- Foster said: No He explain ed that John Fitzpatrick chairman of the committee. would attend was the representative of MT. Comp CTS.
 The possibility of extending the strike to include seamen on carrier vessels on the Great Lakes and union trafnmen will also be discussed ac- cording to MT. Foster. He said rep- resentatives Of both unions had been lnvitaed to attend the meeting.
 Trainmen Have Walked Out.
 Already number of union train men in the strike districts have walk ed out and refuse to move cars of in and out of the strike -af- fected plants" he added. "The sea- men also are all ready to strike in sympathy with the steel workers"
 MT. Foster said that he had been in communication almost constantIyi with the officials of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Inter national Seamen's Union of America and that both organiza tions would 20 operate in making the strike a sue cess.
 At a meeting of union organizers to- lay, MT. Foster said plans were made i Tor holding series of meeting of steel workers throughout the district. 1 He also said picket lines would be l around a number of the plants.