The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-24
Presence of so Negroes as
Armed Deputies Arouses
Foreigne
RACE RIOTS IS. FEARED
Strike Leader 5 md Heads of
Mills in ! cago Area
Both I IN Gains.

Farrell, Pa pt 24.-CBy the AS
sociated Pre- Although all was
quiet here u following last nights
outbreak in which one man was
| killed and several persons were
| wounded, the situation was tense
| State police and a large number of
| deputy sheriffs were patrolling the
streets within the riot zone. Thirty
more of the constabulary have ar
| rived. Among the armed deputy
sheriffs put on the streets We're about
| fifty negroes. Their presence has
aroused the feeling of the foreign ele-
ment and race rioting is now feared.
Two men We're arrested early today
at the home of Burgess Moody. One
Rad pistol, the police said. The po-
lice believe they were planning to
make an attempt on Moody's life.
Burgess Moody has received many
anonymous letters. A special guard
has been placed about the Moody
, home.
Both Sides Claim Gains.
| Chicago, Sept. 24.-(By Associated
| Press while leaders of the strik-
steel workers in the Chicago dis
! trict and heads of steel mills each
| claimed gains, there appeared little
change today in the number of plants
in operation. A majority of the mills
were still closed and one in operation
worked with a reduced force.
| The only disorder in this district
since the inception of the strike oc-
| Cured at Indiana Harbor, Ind, last
night, when strike sympathizers out
| side the coke plant of the Mark
! Manufacturing company. attacked
| about twenty five men as they left
! work.
Eight or ten men were badly
| beaten and We're taken to an emer-
geucy hospital after Indiana Harbor
! police stopped the fighting. A num-
Der of shots were fired at the police
| but none was hit A negro striker
who carried rifle was arrested.
The men who We're attacked had
remained to pull fires and prepare the
| plant for an extended shutdown, it
was stated.
! Eleven steamers carrying 100, 900
I tons of iron ore today We're tied up
in the out harbor at South Chicago
! by the refusal of the crews to dock
the vessels.
Federal officers at Gary arrested
Michael Yalovitch, charged with maxi
ing seditious utterances.
Aerial Patrol Set Up.
Youngstown, O., Sept 24.-An
aerial patrol of the Youngstown
strike district was established today
by the Youngstown police depart
ment Aerial photographs will be
taken of activities about the big
plants and turned over to the police
department..
Indiana HarbOr, Ind, Sept. 24.-Of-
ficials of the Inland Steel company
sent an ultimatum to their striking
employees today that unless they re-
turned to work within two days the
company will shut down the plant
for six months.
Canton, o., Sept. 24.-Practically
all of the 1000 employees of the Cam
ton Sheet Steel company who quit
work Monday in response to the
strike order, have voted to resume
work Sunday.
The action followed an appeal of
officials of the company.
Press Giving Raw" Deal.
Pittsburgh, Sept, 24.-Chairman
Fitzpatrick said on his arrival here
today that the situation was "satis-
factory" He declared that the strik-
ers around the Chicago district were
getting a raw deal" from the press
Il want to go to Washington as
quickly as [ can" he said. Among
the officials who attended the meeting
were Harry ]. Stahl representing the
foundry employees; William Harmon,
machinists; James G. Sause, boiler
makers; j. Manley, structural iron
and steel workers, and D. j. Davis,
assistant president of the Amalga-
mated Association Of Iron and Steel
Workers.
Buffalo, n. Y, Sept. 24.-With the
plants of the Lackawanna steel com
pany. Rogers, Brown & Co. and the
Donner Steel company closed, and
additional deputies and state police
patrolling the streets of Lackawanna
today there appeared to be little like
lihood of a recurrence of the troubles
which led to the killing of one man
and the wounding of several others
last night.