Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-27
CONTEND|NG PARTIES IN TIE
 STEEL STRIKE ARE OPTIMISTIC
the A. F. of L. Senate Labor Committed 4n
 vestgaton Declared Gary Could Have Stopped Strike By Granting d Conference the Strike Committee-Charg
 ed That the Authorities of Western Pennsylvania Are Working Help the Corporations Against the Workers

United Mine Workers, while on the witness stand pointed out deputy sheriff i'll the court room and said: T saw that man over there shooting into the back of Strezeleoki." He said the miners were orderly at the time of the shooting. He said that he was told by strikers that Mrs. Sellens had been Killed while protecting small children
 After testifying that the deputy sheriffs were to blame for Mrs Sel- lens death. two witnesses from Natro- na were arrested in the courtroom on orders of Sheriff Paddock on charge that they had been wanted but were not found until they appeared as wit nesses.
 President F. A. Grace of the Beth lehem Steel Company sent a reply 10 the union leaders yesterday announce ing that the company would not de- part from its present method of Ieal- ing with it's employees or grant the union aconference. Secretary Foster of the national committee declines to ma ke the letter public.
 It was very quiet day in the Pitts- burgh district There was an ex- change of shots between state police and some men near Clairton. twcrty miles from Pittsburgh, in which no one was hurt. Arrests continue to be made in different places of men who are usually charged with lettering and disorderIy conduct.
 Continuing the fight for free speech and free assemblages the union com mittee having this matter in charge, today was busy making arrang ernent3 to hold mass meetings Of the work CTS in many mill towns. There will be meetings in Homestead and Nat roma with the consent of Sheriff Had dock of Allegheny county. it was stat ed. and deputy sherifrs will be sent to prevent interference by state police.
 Sheriff Paddock announced today that he had given the strikers per mission to hold meetings in halls in any city or town where local authori- ties had not banned such gatherings He said that the union committee had misinterpreted his instructions when they announced that he had promfs- in any city or town wherever they could obtain hall" The sheriff sad that he could not overrule local au- thorities in regard to meetings.
 Mayor George Lys1e of MckeesDort declared that no meetings would be permitted in that city, where they have been banned for many weeks ffo said that he has as much authority as the sheriff in this regard and wou. oppose any move to permit ucll gath erings.
 We had trouble and riots because of these meetings before there was strike. MT Lysle said. 'I cannot and will not tolerate such gatherings''
 The union steel men are also :5arred from holding meetings in D1uuesne and Clairton. according to reports at strike headquarters
 MT Foster said the union wishel to avoid trouble with the authorities. out would demand that the constitutional rights of the workers be upheld" He said that the mass meetings conducted by. the organizers were always order ly and peaceful ani there was no good reason for them being banned by any community"