The evening world., 1919-09-25

--gaged in the production OF stccl are
~--all Afnericans A small pereentage 70
composed Of second generation Poles
Italians and Slavs who are proud OF
their American birth and citizenship
and are loyal to the company.
Most of these men are property
owners and have bank accounts and
own shares. wholly or partially In
the United States Steel Corporation
They are almost universally against
=ths strike. The exceptions arc radi-
" calls with ieanings toward l. W. w.
= and proletsriat rule, and quite num-
ber OF Americans who can trace their
ancestry back two or three genera
7. tons under the American flag have
been bitten by the Bolsheylk bug.
STEEL MILLS IN DISTRICT ARE
STILL RUNNING.
with these men and a consider
able percentage OF workers earning
smaller wages at work. the mills IN
THE PittsDurgh district are producing.
One small mill established . record
for output two days ago. The only
way the strike leaders can reach TINS
Lclass OF mill labor is 70 make their
~strike OF unskllled and manual labor
ere 10 thorough and effecutal that no
4 raw material can be brought into the
mills and no finished product sent
'Nout In that event tho fires in the
furnaces must die out and the ma
9'cainery must be stopped. for the
.ssldlled men will have nothing to work
with.
went thoroughly through two OF
I, the mills OF the Homestead plant
J, partially through others and had an
s,nopportunity Of look in at the rest
. yesterday. Every mill was turning
out steel products and oil we're work
ing with practically full forces OF
skilled men.
The absence Of laborers was notice
able, but the hot metal was coming
from the blast furnaces and long lines
Of fiat cars were being loaded IN one
mill with steel plates from which the
arsat pipes for the new water supply
systsn Of Jersey City are to be
h, fashioned.
K FEWER OUT THAN DURING THE
a INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
During the influenza epidemic the
Homestead mills were shy an average |
of a,7OO men daily for several weeks. |
The production did not fall below |
normal Officials OF the company say |
N there are leas than that number on
strike at the present time.
As the strike ages, the strikers |
4 are, By common consent In the public
mind In this community, set In y
class Apart--a class Of foreigners
with no real interests In the country, |
largely prepared 10 return to their
native lands with their savings, and
I'm revolt, not against working con-
ditions, but against our system Of
IL government b." /
if Whether this assumption 10 we'll
founded or not. the fact remains that
( The leaders Of these men are radicals.
William z. Foster, the guiding spirit
Of the strike, 10 on record as adVoeat-
lno the overthrow OF the Government
by force, and thers was during the
Z war q distinct absence OF loyalty to
the Government among certain classes
Of foreigners employed In the mills.
However. n noticeable percentage
/ of the strikers resents the term
L foreigner" Fathers OF grown chill
\ 4 dren who have been educated In the
public schools and are earning good
II wages proclaim themselves Amer
leans. y
III q 10 among thsse that the first bic
break VIII come unless Foster and his
associates are able TO put more OF a
punch In their strike before long.
I1 Foster admits that most OF the men
, ON strike arc foreigners by birth, but
he says the reason IL that tha per-
centage OF foreign laborers In the steel
mills ls higher In the Pittsburgh dis
trict than elsewhere. This Ia disputed
III by Steel Corporation officials, who
M claim that the foreign element Is about
l3 proportionately the same In all the
.,E mills in the country.
Be that as II may. II is interesting 10
read In the Pittsburgh newspapers the
~ names OF men arrested and hnod for
~ alleged illegal acts in connection with
VI. the strike. Here are 'Sw strikers
IN arrested or fned yesterday, the names
n being selected at random from long
list OF similar names;
" MOSTLY YOUNG MEN WHO DID
III NOT SERVE IN THE WAR.
III Frank chinkunss, John kow'
alsISl. George wAehowski, lsidor
oardzdis, Joe Zinokas, Domlniek
E Msrkunas. Joe BaroholkiS, staney
0obriek, John WysxueEanskl,
Michael Puranski, Samuel Aliens.
Et Iuk. Alexander Votuk, Roasn
padkiewiez, Adam Wiereisiswski,
nj Robert Dswieez and Joseph
III warEaw.
About half OF these are men be-
tween twenty and thirty years Of age