Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-23
SEVERAL PERSONS SHOT
 IN RlOTING AT CARNEGIE (Cnn&inI.ed

confidence that in view of the fact that the steel workers did not cause general tieup. as was predicted in
 some quarters, they would have more men at work on the second day than the first.
 Union Leaders Highly Pleased. The union leaders at headquarters of the national committee of the steel workers declared that they were highly pleased with the answer made unorganized men engaged in the in dustry. William z. Foster, secretary of the national committee. predicted that the intensive campaign to union ize the plants not only of the steel corporation but independents as well, would result in bringing many more thousands out on strike.
 Secretary Foster gave out figures from union leaders in all steel districts of the country. indicating that ap- proximately 2S4.oo men out of the half million engaged in the industry burgh district alone. he said. T, 900 men were out.
 Claims of Officials. While corpora ton officials refraired i from going into figures. their state ments on the situation did not agree in any particular with the figures is sued by Secretary Foster. It was | more than 15.000 workers in this dis trict answered the call It was ad- mitted by officers of the Carnegie Company. the steel corporations larg est subsidiary here. that some of the plants were short handed, but that fficient men reported on the day and night shifts to permit all of it's 1 important mills in the district to oper- ate almost at one hundred per cent. It was also admitted by steel off cials that blast furnaces, which they said they had always regarded as weak spots. were in some instances
 men to report. Where this occurred 1 the furnaces were banked and the men who reported were concentrated on other furnaces. No man was sent
 home but was given something to do. if he cared to work officials said. In the city of Pittsburgh the steel cor pora tion's plants were fully manned, i; it was given out.
 Operating Plants.
 | At Homestead, Duquesne and Brad dock. where the steel corporation has immense plants. there was a. sharp conflict of claims as to the effective ness of the strike. The Carnegie Com pany through a representative. said that little difficulty was experienced in operating the works at those places Mir Foster claimed there were !; z, 900 men on strike at the Homestead " bor struggles in years past. The com pany said this was not true there were not many more men employed there than 5000 and that the works was not crippled.
 MT. Foster said his reports showed 5000 men idle at Braddock and 12.00o 1 in all the plants at McKeesport and DuQuesne. l There were many idle men noticed 1 on the streets of Homestead, McKees- port Duquesne and Braddock during l the day, but whether they were largely 1 strikers or men working on the night
 shifts could not be definitely deter l mined.
 ] According to officials of the Jones and Iaughlin Steel Company, that concern was but little inconvenienced
 /, by the strike today. There were few defections followed by a few more at
 the noon hour, but representatives of
 i the company said these were about
 i the normal number of men who lay
 1 off each day
 1 Majority of Strikers Foreigners. l Virtually all reports from the side
 l of the employers mentioned that the great majority of strikers were for 1 eign born andn that, generally speak
 | ing. the American born workers did
 i not respond to the strike call. It has
 i been repeatedly admitted by union
 ! leaders that a majority of the. men
 1 employed in the steel industry are of
 ! foreign birth and that, it was but nat
 ural thaH.a largA perceISage of thaun