The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-02
DRIFT RAck TO WORK.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 30.-Reports
from steel corporation and union heaa-
quarters, police and other sources in
the Pittsburgh district today. did not
Indicate a substantial change in the
steel workers strike, which now has
entered on its second week. though
MORE men were reported returning to
work.
The American Steel and Wire Com
pany announced that the rod mills in
Its pant at Braddock, Rankin and
Farrell. resumed operations today. The
fcotnpany's Plant at Donora, also closed
last week, reported men returning there
Tor work.. In the Cleveland field, the
company announced, the nail depart
ment of the e. P. Works began opera
tons.
The McKeesport Tinpiate Company,
at Port Vuc, resumed operations in the
finishing department with a complete
personnel, officials stated.
Mills in the Shenango valley reported
strike conditions much improved. Fiji
ty-four hot mills out Of 60 are operat-
ing at the Shenango and Newcastle
plants Of the American Sheet and
Tinplate Company. The Carnegie mill
there is operating at about normal. Of
ficials a y.
In the vandergrift 26 out of 80 hot
mills of the American Sheet and Tin
plate Company are working.
At E!nwood City the National Tube
Company reports to be operating at
SIS per cen OF capacity.
Jones and Laughlin officials re-
ported the fourth attempt to call out
their men had been a Psychological
vriSfo1s - ard that NAV -orNrfo1 foI.x
as usual-100 per cent. Less pickets,
they said, were on the streets this
morning than at any time during thu
strike.
The Carnegie Steel company ap-
peared the most optimistic in this dis
trict. They announced several hundred
men reported today, among them be-
ing many foreigners. Preparations were
made for firing another furnace, max
ing a total OF six of the II Of the Edgar
Thompson plants operating.
The West Pennsylvania Steel COM
pany at Breckenridge believed the
strike at their plant had been broken
by the pledge of 900 men to return to
work today. 1t is said an agreement
a benc reached among native born
workmen that a strike does not exist
and hat men who voted against re-
turning to work will be declared to
have quit their positions.
All districts reported order.
From strife headquarters came the
statement hat with the additional or
Eanizery brought into the field during
the past few days there would be very
few assertions and a large number Of
additions to the strikers ranks.
Fosters Statement.
"The steel workers now on strike will
eithe: be granted their demands OF
they will be starved into submission
INC compelled to return to work." Will
!am 4. Foster, organizer, said today in
q statement to newspaper men.
Il am convinced" he added, that the
steal workers are thoroughly organ
lied. We are not claiming that the
steel industry is shut down entirely
Some plants are not operating. Bur
the normal production of steel has beer
lowered in most cases we'll over sc
per cent. We are winning, that Is al
I can say"
Confidence In Foster.
h steel workers national commit
tee fate Saturday at it's meeting in
Pittsburgh voted an expression or con-
3idence in Secretary William q. Foster
attacked in congress and elsewhere
for alleged "~radicalism," and extended
an invitation to the Senate labor com
n:ttee to visit Pittsburgh and investi-
gate for itself causes OF the strike
ard illegal and brutal methods en-
p'oyed by the steel corporation to break
the strike"
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GoMPERs SEES VICTORY.