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down. At any rate. II is there and in
Duquesne that the main efforts are be-
ing concentrated by both sides. The COM
pany says It is getting adequate protec-
ton from the police and State constabu-
larry. The strikers say the officers are
interfering with them in the most out
rageous fashion.
state Police on Patrol.
State police are constantly patrolling
the Homestead and Duquesne districts.
They ride on the sidewalks. The strik-
ers allege that they arrest them without
any charge. The police say they make
the arrests under the suspicious per-
sons" act. At any rate. when such men
are arrested they are fined by the
burgess or the mayor and have the OPP
ton OF paying $50 or of going back to
work. The strikers also charge that the
police enter their homes to make ar
rests without warrants.
All of this procedure is based by the
authorities on their desire to enforce
law and order. The constitutional
rights which the strikers say are in
fringed are now on their way to test
in the courts but the test will not even-
tuate until after the strike is old and
dead.
]. L. Reaghan, organizers who were ar
rested in McKeesport. made the con-
stitutional argument In the appeal OF
their cases to the county court This
was the first time that Mother Jones
had ever been placed behind the bars.
When in court to-day she was asked for
her address. Wherever q good fight for
freedom is going on" she replied and
refused any other habitat.
Women also bore a picturesque part
in the close struggle In McKeesport. Mrs
Mary Orosan was arrested in mems at
tire while she was trying to persuade
men not to go to work. Her husband
protested when the police started to take
her through the streets in mems clothes
and he, too, was arrested. Three other
women were arrested there for undue
efforts at pursuasion. One was charged
with dumping a bucket of whltewash
over policeman.
Mother Shot, baby Escapes.
A woman was shot and seriously
wounded in her bed at Butler last night
by shots intended for her husband. Her
two-months-old baby barely escaped
The State police arrested a striker and
charged him with firing the shots
| through the window in hope of getting
at work
The riotlng continued spasmodIcally
in Farrell ami Sharon throughout the
day. Three persons are dead and thir-
| teen seriously wounded in the two towns.
Several of the wounded are State police.
Details Of the situation to-day on the
whole were regarded by the strikers as
| favoring their side. Though the COM
panies claim gains in the key position at
Homestead, Duquesne, Braddock and
| McKeesport, 1t is nevertheless true that
| many more men quit in Pittsburg itself
to-day. 1t Is further true that some of
the Independent corporations are capitu-
lating and more are preparing to do So.
The big Spang- -Chalfont Steel Com
| pany plant across the river from Pitts
| burg closed this afternoon
The Wheeling Steel and Iron Com
pany. on the other hand, at Wheelins-
| w. Va, posted a notice announcing that
| it had signed an agreement with the
| strikers granting all their demands and
that It would reoren.
| In Plttsburg itself about the only plant
operating is the big Jones & Laughlin
! works On the other side of 1t the
Byers & Oliver plants are shut down, and
! the idle workers OF the plants are having
their effect on the Jones & Laughlin men
despite persistent efforts of the police to
| keep them away from them. Two Or
ganizers for the union. former employees
OF the neighboring plant, were arrested
| in fig time this afternoon charged with
lettering when they stopped to light
| cigarettes near some men who were
! emerging in overHlls from the Jones &
| Laughlin plant.
| Prediction by Foster.
| Secretary Foster predicted that the
| strike would be effective in the Jones &
Laughlin plant by Thursday or Friday.
Another important announcement from
| Foster tonight was that the Glassport
and Clarion by-product plants OF the
steel companies were limping along with
the aid OF a few Turks and negroes.
These plants make gas essential TO the
| conduct Of the other plants, and IL they
go down the results will be far reaching
| in the district
The night communique from the officea
of the Carnegie Steel Company again
claims that the Duquesne plant is ope at
ing 100 per cent, and insists that condi-
tlons satisfactory at all critical points
continue with some slight improvements.
I'VE have not hit them 100 per cent.
Of course" said Foster tonight. But
considering the difficulties we have had
to work under the fact that we have
not been allowed to hold meetings that
| OTkdHlLeTS ubNo Docn dflNch OUT VI dI
rested and that the men have been ter
rorized We believe we have done very
veil. Certainly the men are not showing
any tendency to go back to work. and
our organizers at the Jones and Laugh
lin plant are swamped with applications
10 Join the union. We've already licked
them at Homestead. and I'm confident OF
the ultimate result at Duquesne and No
Keesport."
Foster again bitterly combatted the
idea that the strike was among the
men of foreign birth and language.
ITS in Pittsburg." he said, that the,
have the biggest element of foreigners
and it's there that the company says
. we have failed. It's in their boasted
: American plants, like Vandergrift and
, Newcastle. that the strike has been most
, successful In Johnstown there are SOC
ex-service men among the strikers.
Much Money Saved by Men.