New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
More Men at Work in
Crucial Monongahela
Valley, Is Contention
of Company Officials
Say They Fight
For Whole Nation
Strikers. Exasperated as
Troopers Halt intimi-
dation. Make Threats
BY Theodore NJ. knappen

BY hcOdOrc M. EnaDpcn
PITTSBURGH, Sept 93.-Loched in
tense grip. the industrial antasonist1
OF the steel arena were strainjng every
nerve today to get a strange hold
With its right and left wings beaten
Tor the time being, the cmplovers'
army was busily engaged III cter-
mined effort to mold the Monongahcls
valley. its centre and main reliance.
A review of the situation in Pitt,-
bursh tonight. however. SHOW that
the strike made considerable progress
today among the city plants. Two
plants OF the American Steel and Wlre
Company, the A. NJ. Byers Company.
the Oliver Iron aHd Steel Company and
the Spang and Chalfant Company. inc
Aetna), were all closed, and some de-
fections were reported al the Jones
anc Laughlin plants.
Despite the losses. the employers
claimed to be satisfied with the situs-
ton. as the Duquesnc. omcstcad and
Edgar Thomson plants had retained
all the ground they held yesterday and
had gained little.
Biggest Pants Hold Firm
The conditions that prevailed dur
ing the day at our biggest plants in
the Mopongahela Valley continued to
be indicated to-night.' it Was Said a.
ihc Offices of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany by an official that is in close per-
sonal touch with the situation
I've have had no reason to revise
our feelings on the present situation
and are still rratiied at the GAINS thai
are being made.
"Of course. the Duqucsnc plant il
most pleasing in its showing OF 100
per cent: 1t is running normal to
night. The Edgar Thomson vorke
continues 20 operate with a better
showing than 1t had to-day. having
gained a few men Homestead, 90
gained few more !nen tonight while
during the day sufficient men returned
70 put IN operation one Of the bias.
furnaces at tho Carrie plant
AT all other plants The condition
was unchanged, and with the cxcep-
non of Farrell there was no disorder
at any of lhe mills or towns \: Far
rell there are continual clashes ne
tween the state police and the strikers
but despite this disorder operation
are still being carried on
Rioting Shows Increase
There was increase Of riotine. out
breaks occurring in several districts
One man was killed in Farrell the
scene of last nights CLASH between 4
mob and state troopers another was
Killed az Buffalo and man was "a
tally injured in a riot n this city. /
woman's name was added to the eatt
roll when Mr.. Sophia Johnston. =
strikers wife. VINO was Shot in 2 l-ot
10 isi- ,r,r'
I The number Of known wounded IS CIV
en- rs ten. and many others are re-
porteG slightly wounded
Strikers Report Gains
Outside reports Indicated eairs 5r
She strihers at Youngstown, where the
last big plant closed down at Cieve-
| land, where. it was said. 1000 more
men had Joined the strikers. and at
Chicago. whore the unions claimed the
! accession OF 10000 men who cid nos
answer the strike cali on the first day.
On the other hand word came from
Birmingham, Ala, ,hat many OF the
men who walAen out there We're apply
! ing for reinstatement
The strikers attribute their failure
! OF a sweeping victory in the Pitts
/ burgh district generally to the methods
of what they call the Cossacks. CON
monty known as the state mounted
police or constabulary. summarily
/ backed by the local police. dcpu1y
! Shcnffs and the local courts. Accord
lngly. they arc considering WAYS and
means of disposing of them.
Appeal TO the courts in some form, =
contemplated as the legitimate means
OF securing relief from the ever pres
ent troopers. As an illegitimate meas
ure. the loca organizers. Who ase
driven from pillar to post ny he
black horse civil cavalry Whenever
they attempt 70 hold open air meetings.
or seek to interfere with mon who wish
TO work, are talking vaguc-Y Of answer
ing force with force and assembling such
an army of strikers that the handful Of
police will be overborue by sheer weight
of numbers
Constabulary Is Reinforced
In answer TO these half-baked design.
and to the bloody affrays of Yesterday
and this morning at various point. th,
state authorities rushed two more troors
OF constapulary into the PITTSBURGH d.
trict to-day. making total Of abo..
three hundred here, with the hulk a.
them IN the Monongahela Valley and A.
points Ike Sharon. NeH Castle and Far
reli, where there have been clashes be
tween the police authorities and fbe
strikers.
Whether the methods of the troonsr,
and the courts IN dealing with oeena
ers against the riot act are SUFFICIENT
lady-llke or not-and the striker,
most emphatically declare that the
are not is believed there i, xmsj'
chance, either through judicial ..t,o,
or the use OF overwhelming force =,
eliminate them. Alert, active. he~,
there ana everywhere, tire Sonsta bula ~,