New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Even Foreigners Lose
Spirit ana Return IT,
Absence Of Mass Meet
ings and Professions
DuQuesne Has a
Surplus Of Hands
Bethlehem Turns Dowu
Demands: Break in
Mahoning Mills Likely
BY Theodore M. KnapDen

PITTSBURGH, Sept. Wsginr a
dogged war of attrition. the antagcn
lists in the struggle for the domination
of steel surged backward and forward
to-day. The waring down process ia
vored the big plants Of the Carnegis
Company in the Mononga hela VALLEY
while the Jones & Laughlin plant
which has stood like rock in Pits.
burgh, began to slip q little. Between
explosive breaths both gladiators looked
to Washington, the labor leaders VIII
hope that some sort OF Federal inter
ference might result from the hearing.
of the Senate Committee on Labor and
Education, and the steel captains wirh
dread that there might be some sucn
result
The presence in Pittsburgh Of VIII
lam j. Flynn, chief of the bureau o
Investigation of the Department OF .Ius
tlce, suggested one sort of interference
with the strike that the corporations,
would welcome ADMINISTRATION Of
the revolutionary aspects Of the strike
and further inquiry into Secretary Eos
ter's leadership of it.
Fosters Record Scrutirj<ed
Flynn, who was in conference vita
United States District Attorney Low
rey Hames. said that he was here TO
look into certain elements of the
strike in which the Department OF jus
tice is greatly interested" II is
known that Fosters record has beer
laid before the Department of Justice
in great detail, as we'll As manv othcr
facts relating TO radicalism involved "
the steel strike.
From President +. c. Grace Of n,
Bethlehem Steel Companv came Al
answer 20 the strike committees ulfi
matum TO that company II natnr,
was held back by the strike leaders foi
hours. but they finally admitted ths,
1T was a refusal Of the conference de-
manded. President Grace declared
that his company would continue ifs
present system Of collect Is. bargain
ing with its employees. His answer i,
10 De referred to tire nation com
mlttee of steel workers. and a -f5tc
order to the Bethlehem employees MAJ
soon follow. The Bethlehem company
employs 10000 men.
the Mahoning Valley, the stronghold of
the strikers, was showing signs OF
break. and that the men SSho ha6
walked out had called meeunes to vote
on returning 20 work
FROM Chicago It was reported th.-
9oo" men were al work in the United
states Steel Corporation plant A. Gar
and that 90 0mcu were TO resume their
lobs At Indiana 1Iarbor
Along with rapos-+l
walls of Industries already distressed
FOR steel, Of railway congestion. or
account OF rAW materials pihre Dn
at steel mills and nothing going oui.
and the minor wal Of disturbed locsi
trade IN al steel centres, 4hovlna tha.
the innocent bystandcr," as usual, =.
getting more than his share Of tha
spent bullets and badly AIMED proiec-
tiles of heavier calibre.
Ihe protest OF the strikers agains.
tie authorities interfering with their
meetings was laid before Sheriff Had
dock. of Allegheny County. bv com
mlttee this afternoon. and in answer
he said that hall meetings would be
permitted. but that outdoor meetings
would not be allowed He explained
IN regard to the state police that under
the state lazy they could be sent into
any community with or without request
from the local authorities and that ne
had no control over thela whatever.
Duquesne Has Too Many Men
travelled through the strategic
valley of the Monongahela again 70
day and watched the silent battle y.
the fortress positions of Homestead
Duquesne, the Edgar Thomson worhs
at Braddock and Clarion. At tn
Duouesne works the mills and shop
were actually Overlooking with mer
and applicants for work were bcias
directed 20 The other plants OF the
Carnegie Company.
Lest this may seem oyerdone =
should be explained that at no time
have the Duquesne works been moro
than 300 short in total of 1000. and
tnat the ordinary absenteeism amount
20 about 200 Mill men say that there
IS plain relation between the stead
fastness OF DuQucsne and the 100 per
cent order that has been maintained
in that borough
Somewhat more men reported az
Homestead this morning than yester
day, and the mounted troopers and the
local police lolled in idleness il
streets that at an early hour were free
OF even suggestion Of a great and
bitter internal struggle and given over
to hosts of happy, faxen-haired chill
dren, who were skipping and rompinc
schoolward from the homes Of the
workers.
Children Look Well Fed
One searched in vain for signs Of
malnutrition among these children n,
the industrial serfs," of whom ,bs
more unfortunate get no less than
$izo month and the more fortnnats
not cent less than $3.50 week.
one wondered what these robus.