The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
Night Turns Discontinued
in Many Mills in Pitts
burg District.
MORE RIOTING OCCURS
Large Independent, Jones q
Laughlin Steel Works,
Running in Full.
48 ARRESTS AT CLARION
Foreigners Most Numerous
Among Agitators and Those s
Who Walked Out.
By star Correspondent Of THE Sun.

PITTsBURG, Sept. 22-The Pittsburg
district was hard hit on the first day
of the steel strike. Both sides made
many claims, of which the kindest
thing that can be said Is that they
are ex parte.
Independent investigation upon any
adequate scale Is impossible in the
welter of tall stacks and the myriad
of huge stockades that line the three
converging valleys Of the Monon-
gahela, the Allegheny and the Ohio
rivers for. forty miles in every direc-
ton and amid the drab, smoke stained
villages on the steep sloped hillsides,
where dwell the steel workers, from
the comfortable expert with his
garage to the "husky" in his bunk
house.
From sources that are unquestion-
ably dependable the situation this
afternoon in the United States Steel
Corporation plants was as follows,
although changed little in the eve
ming, as some plants or departments
of works in operation during the day
were not on at night:
Sixty to 70 per cent. Of the plants
were In operation.
| The strikers were directing their
principal efforts at Donora, Cleve-
land and Gary.
The chief centres of the strike arc
at Gary and Cleveland.
| Intimidation, the employees say,
kept many men away on the first day.
These workers are expected to return
. tomorrow.
| Most of the strikers are foreigners,
as Americans generally remained
loyal to the company. This tine
strikers combated, insisting thnt
| Americans have reported as Loyalty as
foreigners to the union call.
How the situation Appears.
The situation appears to be as fol-
lows, as viewed mostly from the
strikers standpoint:
First-A little more than half of
| lle plulllS nave Deth ClOSeu
Second-If there is any advantage
in the day it lies with the strikers.
Third-Violence so far has been
only sporadic. 1t increased tonight,
with the first killing of loyal en-
ployee and the first wounding Of a
State trooper, both at Sharon.
Fourth-All the chances favor the
further extension of the tieup, with
Mr.. Foster indicating his belief In this
trend by sending to the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation tonight a letter In
which he gives that hitherto unaf.
fected company until next Monday to
meet committee or face a strike.
Fifth-Steel officials are maintain.
ing a calm attitude. Apparently they
are not deeply disturbed by the shut
down of the industry at this time
Reports on Violence Differ.
The company and the union differ
radically in their versions with re.
gard to violence. The union officials
cite as a typical instance Of the Bour-
bonlsm of the local and State Of
ficlals the riding down of a group Of
men in Braddock this morning.
These men, according to the union
officials, were attending mission
preached in the Roman Catholic Slav
Church. AS they came into the street
from early mass they gathered in
small groups. They were immedi.
ately charged and clubbed by State
troopers.
, The company, on the other hand,
charges that violence about the gates
of many of their plants, personal at.
tacks on loyal men, many Of whom
were hauled from street cars, have
been responsible for the closing down
Of those of their plants which are
unable to operate this morning. They
: insist that these events invariably
occurred when police protection was
inadequate, and they insist that the
watchfulness Of the local officials and
the readiness of the State police to
act are but common sense precau.
, tions to insure that the Industrial
struggle does not turn into outright
war.
They charge that the strikers have
already commenced their favorite
trick of other strikers-sniplng at the
. valley plants from the strikers
houses on the high hillsides.
In second outbreak at Farrel
tonight one man was killed, two