New-York tribune., 1919-10-13

duced since the ar1uistice, and the
foreman couldn't be better.
g. d A'eheha.!. now storosoepor
III the nc, Atcaeoa NotAs o. the Car
nes'e S.eel Company ;r Pittsburgh. at
70 cents - hoGs, advocated the zen
Noas Ga IS l4eaus os preventing
: 9OunI .1,, men foai o3ins tempted.
hea they ,Fc~.. - Aours." ne
.... sa.0. :, SouhG a~a doe c&ro 10 20
out .or a good ti.ac - night They 81.
around tAc- house while and then so
% bed - r
The men at the NcCutcheon plant
We're 40 Wei ploased and so discerning
mat not N'an ioined the strikers A.
a Ma'ter o. faot,~hc said. nobody really
works ten hours, as on most work
thrce men DO shat would be two men q
WorA, thus giving each man regular
scst periods.
Get Pay in Hospital
II wan- % protest" said M Lighthall,
bout what Nh Gompors said in
Washington about the men in company
hospitals being held incosnmunicado.
was IN the Nest Penn Hospital for
while. The company gave me free
treatment and attention and paid me
80 2 day for the first ten days and $2.50
day after thst Visitors were per
mitted daily; n fact. my wife had
dinner with lne ,hree times while I vas
n the hospital"
Andy Barilo, Hungarian. employed
2, ne Nationa. Tube Company's work
IN Mckeesporc. had not Joined the
union. he said, was we'll satisfied with
conditions IN the United States and
had taken out his first papers.
"Strikc no much good declared John
u'atSo, Austro- Hungarian, employed
at the Mckeesport Tube Works.
STRIKE man lie wants lots OF money;
work only eight hours"
Nulatko SAID he was intimidated When
he strike started. ard stayed a home
for[fiNe days after beiNg hi. on the
nead b. Il brick thrown ia the dark.
John DoncheE, Austro- American. g..
colder in tho American army. came
5sc!: 20 his $4.5o a day ion in the Na
tiona. Tuhc Worls at AtcKacsnort 10
mad that i had grown into 4 s5.,5 Job
Vhlie the war Vas on. Neverthcl cless.
seeing = was the fashion TO DO so, lie
loined the union. Called on By the So
c!ety of Fore gn Wars to act a. dep
uty policeman one SUNDAY before tie
strike began. ne tore no his union card
and stood Dat.
Hardly any soldiers Joined the
strike" he said. "and all the Americans
stayed al work. He had stones thrown
at him, hut didn't mind .hat MUCK.
Boss Charges intimidation
Arthur Mann. superintendent OF the
American Steel and Wire Company
plant at Donora, said that 5000 out of
force of 4,30O We're on STRIFE. Sixty
five per cent OF the force were foreign.
and he was convinced that moat of
them We're iutimidated from going to
YORK. lie answered the story Of Nike
q kelly, strike leader. who had com
plalnsd Of The way he vas treated By
his foreman, O'Donnell. whel. working
in the ;aills. Mann. who rose from the
steei workers ranks. explained that q
t7'eiNe- hoar day WAS not 50 bad ss i.
sounded. siacc by & system o. nlterna-
ton such men es roll hands really
worked onlv SIX hours of the twelve,
rest ard work alternating in half-hour
periods. lie considered education and
America n!zation OF the Foreigners i'm
porsau-. out had met with discourage
.'ig results in trying to promote them.
Af,as great effort he had succeeded in
getting only eighteen men out oY 4,300
- atten,. tree night schools conducted
hy the company. The Poles we're the
easieso OF the foreigners to American
lze aUl the Russians the most difficult.
Mills Need Foreigners
Mann revealed the wea kncss Of the
steel companies, il the strikers should
hcld out, when he said that the mills
couldn't run without tho foreigners.
He kept no blacklist, and said that he
had never heard o. one being kept by
the Steel Corporation. He admitted
that he had discharged some men be-
cause they didn't subscribe for Lib
erty bonds.
u had Is discharge some because
the foreigners we're not buying bonds"
he said. AFTER that we got 100 per
cea, subscription. and the discharged
rleH came bach; and too. bonds"
According TO Mann, il would be diff
cuit TO introduce The eight-hour day.
because the men would object, as they
prefer t~elve-hour shifts with the over
time pay rather than eight hours
straight. Besides the ho.sing prob
lam in Doncra was such ma. living
places could not be foNca co. the addi-
t:onal men If the mills we've put on