Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-10

chateau at ZiZerS, in eastern SWitzer-
 land. has removed for the winter to Locarno, on Lage Meggore. He is ac- companied by his daughter and few old servitors.
 STEEL STRIKERS INTERESTED IN ARBITRATION PROPOSAL Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 9-The propos- al made at the industrial conference at Washington by s0muel Gompers,
 president of the American Fedora of Labor, that the steel strike be inn
 mediately arbitratcii and that the idle
 men go back to >>rk at once was re- ceived here today with considerable
 interest, although the offer is not new. It had been understoo d here that any time since the industrial struggle
 started. E. H. Gary, chairman of
 the board of the United States Steel Corporation, however, is said to be
 opposed to arbitration at this time
 because he contends the union leaders
 represent only minority of the dn-
 ployes of the steel corporation.
 Whether there is some new angle to
 the Gompers arbitration proposition
 that might be acceptable to the steel
 corporation was not known here. The
 only person in authority at national
 strike headquarters today was w C.
 no information of his own from Wash
 ington and did'' not care to comment
 on the arbitration proposal. The casa
 of the steel workers, he said, is in in
 competent hands in Washington and anything done there doubt had the approval of the officers of the tWen
 ty-four unions involved in the strike.
 A telegram, received at headquarters tonight from John Fitzpatrick, chair man of the national committee, an nounced that the senate investigation committee would be in Pittsburgh to- morrow. The national committee is prepared, it was said, to lay before the senators much evidence to support the claims of the strikers as to the treatment they have received from the steel companies and the police au- thoritieS in some of the towns of western Pennsylvania.
 Strike leaders were greatly interest ed today in the efforts of the Amal- gamated Association Of Iron, Zteel and in Workers S> settle the strike in plants where the association has agreements. In some mills where the association has agreements men walked out causing the places to shut down and throwing Amalgamated men out of work.
 The Amalgamated Association" said D. J. Davis, assistant information al president of that organization, to- day, must uphold it's contracts with the steel companies. We do not in- tend to let the steel strike interefere with these agreements.
 The Anna ga ma tea VIII attempt IO negotiate working agreements for the men employed in these industries al though they are not members of the asSocia tion.
 Mir. Davis ceturned today from Warren, Ohio. where, he said, the aS- a greement with the workers for izthej sociation had succeeded in getting an of operations at the Trumbull Hill Steel Company. .Wa ] called the men together in mass !! I,n Ga them that the association had al contract with the company and was willing to negotiate working agree | ment for the men outside the ranks of the association, if they are willing 1 The men accepted our proposal and work was resumed in that plant to- l day"
 Negotiations for the opening of the Thomas and Empire sheet mills or i the Brier Hill Steel Company, thei Western Reserve sheet and tin plate | mill and the De Forest sheet and tin | plate plant of the Republic Iron and Steel company in the Mahoning dis 1 Lrict, will probably be started Satur- lay, MT. Davis said. The Amalga- mated has agreements with these plants Where Amalgamated men went on strike, MT DaVls said, they did so through misunder- of orders.
 Efforts are being made to open in dependent plants in the Pittsburgh district having Amalgamated agree nents but closed by the strike of other steel workers, MT. Davis said.
 The Amalgamated Association is the oldest of the unions involved in the strike and approximately 65 per cent. If the organized steel workers are members of that body, it is said
 Except at Yorkville, Ohio. where in plate mill of the Wheeling Steel md Iron Company was smut down be- .ause of a strike of laborers, there was 10 notable change in the strike sit lation in this district. The Carnegie Steel Company in statement today ;aid that an average of five hun- fred men daily are returning to work md that production is increasing. The Jones and Laughlin plant, the Jig independent concern in this dis rict, is claimed to be working almost normal by company representatives. Strikers, however, declare the plant IS operating short handed.
 John Moskus, secretary Of the Ma roma district reported that the West Penn Steel Company at Breckenridge, liter attempting to operate, had clos d down. He also said that the Ale ,heny Steel Company would be closed onight. Not a man has returned to work at West Leechburg," he said
 Secretary Foster said that new reports had been received rom Homestead. He said it was lot unlikely that the Homestead plant would be closed down within ew days"
 He refused to discuss the unions plans for bringing about the shut