The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-25
Industry Paralysized in Youngs-
town District and $4,000 Is
Estimated Number of Work
srs Who Are Idle.
CouPANIES SATISFIED
IN PITTSBURG DISTRICT
Rusiness Agent of Unions Says
Trump Card" Has Not Yet
Been Played in Birmingham
district Where Few Are Out.

ponort5 from all steel centers- today
...orded little change in the alignment
=, the opposing forces of the labor
,rions and the steel companies. In the
1r,bo,jng valley of Ohio the strikers
r,rcess is complete. The industry.
,bich is the backbone of Youngstown
.,d a score of neighboring villages
(. raralvzed and all it's $4,000 wage
earners idle. Elsewhere the struggle is
bsing carried on with varying success,
The issue still being doubtful on the
great sectors radiating from Pittsburg
and Chicago.
IN the Pittsburg district the Carnegie
steel company announced today that
me situation, looks good and back
a IN its optimism with claims that
men we're returning to work in con-
sderable numbers. AS usual these
,aims were stoutly denied by William
L Foster, chief of staff for the unions,
zbo reiterated his assertion of yester-
hv that the strike was spreading.
lsimed that two additional large plants
"a been closed today and that Home
tead would be idle by the end of the
week. The strikers placed piclSets
round various plans 70 rthe first
me-
The situation around Chicago is more
siinite than that one in the Pennsyl-
ania region. A majority of the mills
re closed and those who are still
,perating are doing so with reduced
'orces. The threatened sympathetic
rrike Of the lake seamen seemed near
r as the result of the refusal of the
,rsws OF eleven ore freighters to dock
heir vessels.
important decisions affecting the
sprtad Of The strike to allied indus
!, lies are expected to be tho outcome of
he meeting in Pistsburs of the ma
ional steel workers committee of which
lIr. Foster is secretary. The question
d, summoning rot only the Lake ses.-
men, but union trainmen to the as
ls,ance of the steel strikers will be
iscussad at this meeting.
In the meantime the Jnirc1 States
snate committee whlch will inve,ti-
ate the --r.l<e. is preuarinS for It's
Ilaeting tomorrow when Jodd Fitzpat-
lex, commander in chief OF the strik-
5, will be the principal witness 1t
as reported from Washington tonight
lat this committee would also in
sstigate charges that Secretary Foster
as l. W. w. affiliations and that
e-e are more sinister motives involv
II the strike than the question of
hor unionism.
Rotings and disorder still mark the
ogress of the struggle. but so far
ay svoradic. The latest outbreak
ceurre1 today at C;e leland. where
if men were stabbed in a battle
sTeen strikers AMI non-striaers, two
Rahly fatally. At Farrell, where
Favcst disturbances to date have
reported, the town executive,
lsssS Moody, is Yhder special guard
The result of auyneroES threats
saast his life and the streets are
AIo-ed by large forces of state
'opers and deputy sheriffs.
Arminsham. Ala, Sept. 24.-"Our
mp card has not yet been played,
the strike has by no means fall
declared r. w. King, business
1I for the machinists' union this
nIng. Mr.. King stated that inn
ant developments in the situation
tCOntinled IN papa tuvoN