The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-23
BOTH SIDES
CLAIM GAINS:
STRIKE IS IN
SECOND DAY
Farrell, Pa, Where Fatal
Shooting Occurred Last
Night, is Quiet-Great Steel
Centers Are Crippled,
M0ULDERS DEBATING
(By Associated Press)

The second day of the great strus-
gle between the labor unions and the
united States steel corporation opened
win the question as to the extent
10 which the industry had been affect
eu Dy the strike still uncertain. con-
lused as 1t is by the conflicting claims
OF the leaders on either side.
mat the industry has been gravely
crippled in the great centers of Pitts
ourg' Chicago and Youngstown was
rIain' and early reports today re-
'oIueu several gains for the strikers.
.ne flttsburg district, several of
.ne carnegie Steel company's plants
nere closed, and the Braddock and
RANKIN plants of the American Steel
and Wire company, both of which ~.
tempted to continue operations yes-
terday. shut down today These two
concerns employ approximately 10. 600
men.
In tne chicago district similar con-
oltlons prevailed. Nearly all of the
plants in that region, including Gary
and Hammond, either were closed to-
day or operating on greatly reduced
capacity.
Inc strike leaders claimed that 75
per cent of the 10000 workers were
out, and that in Gary the percenta1e
was 80. Steel company officials re-
iused to concede higher percentage
than twenty.
Success at Mahonino.
IN the Mahoning valley district. Of
wnlch youngstown is the heart, all re-
ports agreed that the strikers had
achieved their most marked success
The strike leaders claimed that * rfo
men had quit work, and their claims
were supported by the fact that many
large plants were closed. three IN
particular which employ alone Ia son
| men. Plants which were still onerat.
Ing had admittedly greatly reduced
forces.
| The possibility OF the spread OF the
| strike to as yet unaffected plants. was
more threatening today. At the Beth
| lehem works of the Bethlehem Steel
| corporation. where $4,000 men are EN-.
ployed, the union leaders announced
that no reply had been received tn
their request for a conference with
the company officials. and that pre-
paratlons were being completed for
calling out the workers.
AT Cincinnati the executive board of
the international Iron Moulders' union
is in session and will decide what
| action will be taken by that BODY,
AT Buffalo, switchmen on the Soutb
Hunalo railway quit work when order
ed to move cars into the Lackawanna
steel plant
Rioting, which broke out at the close
OF the first day Of the strike. was re-
sumed at different points this morn
ing. The known casualties so far are
cne man dead; three others SO badly
wounded that they may die, and
scores more or less severely wounded
The fatality occurred in the Pitts
burgh district.
Ebert H. Gary, chairman OF the
board Of directors of the United States
Steel corporation continued TODAY his
| policy Of silence in regard to the steel
strike. Although he met newspaper
men and chatted with them, he refused
to make any public comment on the
steel situation.
1t was asserted today by officers of
the Bethlehem steel corporation. the
largest Independent company in the
country, that no ultimatum had been
received from its unionized employees
demanding conference with the ex-
ecutives.
SENATE ORDERS INVESTIGATION,
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 23-Investiga-
| tion of the steel strike by the Senate
labor committee was ordered today by
the senate. A resolution by Senator
Kenyon. Republican, Iowa. providing
! for the inquiry and authorizing a re-
port as to whether any remedial feder-
al action could be taken, was adopted
with out a roll call.
| Senator Kenyon said It was pro-
posed to call leaders representing both
4 q 7Ynrn 1rSd ,YA1 -
| ton in an effort to determine the cause
CT the strike. Visits by the committee
to the steel centers are not planned, he
said.
| Senator Kenyon announced later
that the investigation would be bogus
| Thursday and that the first witness
would be chairman Gary of the United
States Steel corporation, and John K.
Fitzpatrick, chairman of the commit
tee organizing the steel workers.
CHICAGO INDUSTRY ThRoTTLED
CHICAGO. Sept. 23-Dawn of the
second day OF the nation wide strike
in the steel industry found nearly all
the plants in the Chicago district
either closed down or working with a
greatly reduced force. Labor union
officials predicted that every plant In
the district will be closed within a
few days.
In this district the strike has de-
veloped no violence. At Gary, Ind.
guards escorted from the works men
who had continued their employment
and thousands of strikers about the
gates did not menace them.
At Gary some damage was reported
as resulting from failure to draw
LIQUID steel from furnaces.
Sympathetic Strike
A sympathetic strike OF the mem
bers of the Interna tional Union of
Steam and Operating Engineers in
the Chicago district was regarded as
a possible addition to the ranks of
the steel mill workers who walked
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