Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-20
BOTH SIDES FEEL
CONF F|DENT AS To
OUTCOME; LINES
DRAWN FOR F RAY
Companies Say They viii 0p-
crate; UnioniSts Equally as
Positive That Strike Order
VIII! Be 0beYed.
NEITHER SIDE WILL
OFFER ANY FIGURES
Some Workmen Have Already
Quit and Sought Work Else
where, Is Report; Two Mil
lion Men Involved.
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Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept 19.-Prepara-
tons for test of strength between
organized labor and capital in the
s.eel industry throughout the United
States to begin Monday, went forward
today with both sides apparently con-
fident of the outcome. There Vere no
official statements forthcoming from
either side, but informal talks indi-
Gated that they were ready for the
contest.
Representatives. OF steel companies
in the Pittsburgh district let it be
known that they intend to operate
their plants Monday and also let the
impression go out that they do not
look for so large a walkout as the
union leaders assert will take place
Organized labor expects q big turn
out of men and predicts that the en-
ployers will receive the surprise of
their lives. Neither side will venture
Yigures. Both frankly confessed they
do not know how many men VIII re-
main at work or fail to answer the
whistle. Monday only can tell, tney
said.
understood to have canvassed their
men to get an idea Of the number of
men who win strike, Union leaders
said that from their experiences these
canvasses usually prove to be mac
curate and pointed to past strikes
where a majority of men in a plant
have signed up not to strike and then
quit when the time came.
1t was said tonight that in num-
her of plants some men have already
quit and sought work in other PAGES.
1t was expected by union leaders here
that many men on the night shifts to-
night will take their personal belong
ings out of the mills at quitting time
tomorrow morning, as many of them
do not work Saturday and Sunday
nights.
All the national leaders of unions
involved in the strike had left the city
tonight for their respective head
quarters, to make final plans for the
strike, and much of the activity about
the offices of the steel workers ma
tional committee had to do with the
preparations in the Pittsburgh dis
trict While national headquarters
are in this city, in charge of William
u. Foster, secretary of the national
committee, It was learned that much
of the work will be conducted by dis
tricts. These districts and the men in
charge, Mr. Foster said. are as follows;
Chicago, Il. J. Evans; Cleveland. H.
w. Raisse; Youngstown, J. u. Me-
Cadden; Inner Pittsburgh j. l.. Beag-
han: Outer Pittsburgh. J. McCraig;
Bethlehem, David Williams; Buffalo,
III. C. Thompson; Birmingham, Ala,
T.. S. Ingram; Pueblo, Colo. w. H.
Young.
Reports Of strike developments will
be made to these districts, and If inn
portant enough. will be forwarded to
national headquarters.
Mr.. Foster. in answer TO queries,
said that all men in non-union mills
have been asked to strike. None Will
be left to preserve company prop
erty, such as keeping up furnace
fires and preventing ore from cooling,
he said. "The companies have had
twelve days notice of the strike he
said, "and if they have not arranged
to look after their furnaces 1t is not
our fault"
1t was given out here that an inn
portant meeting of the executive coun-
Gil OF the American Federation of
Labor and representatives of the
unions in the strike will be held
probably in Pittsburgh in two
weeks. Questions of financing the
contest, it was said. would be taken
up. According to the letter addressed
to President Wilson last night by the
national committee the unions CO.
operating in the strike have total
membership of two millions.