The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-25
Increased Production Re-
ported in Chicago as Well
as in Pittsburg.
WORKERS CALL FOR AID
f. ?. Walsh and Miners
Unions Will Help to
Carry On Strike.
FOUR INJURED IN A CLASH
Fitzpatrick Says Gov. SprOul
and Judge Gary Are De-
flying Wilson.
FOUR INJURED IN A CLASH

While the steel companies made in
roads into the strikers ranks in the
Pittsburg district yesterday, neither
capital nor labor scored material
gains in the general situation on the
third day of the great steel strike.
Attention is now centring in Wash
ington, where the Senate Committee
on Labor is to open an inquiry into
the struggle to-day.
The night report of the Associated
Press gives the usual conflicting
claims of both sides, leaving still In
doubt the exact number of men who
have walked out. The assertion was
made by w. u. Foster. secretary of
the strikers national committee, that
$4,000 more men had abandoned their
posts, bringing the total of the
strikers up to $4,000. On the other
hand, officials of the United States
Steel Corporation contended that
labor was beginning to return to the
mills.
In spite of the predictions of Mr..
Foster that the strikers will be able
to shut down all the important works,
employers of labor said yesterday that
they have increased production in
virtually all plants, including, those
in Homestead, Clarion, Braddock,
Duquesne and the Pittsburg mills Of
the Carnegie company.
Chicago Not Tied Up.
Conflicting reports are also made
about the situation in Chicago. II
was apparent, however, that the in
dustry in that section, although Grip
pied by the shut down of many
plants, was by no meens tied up
Union leaders held a conference in
Pittsburg yesterday to consider the
conduct of the strike. Reports from
that city are that the managers Of
plants there are seeking to take the
offensive.
The recruiting forces of labor are
also active and organizers from the
Mine Workers Union have been called
to assist agents of the steel workers
union in enrolling non-union workers.
No effort seems to have been made.
however. to employ strikebreakers,
Decrease in Violence.
Throughout the affected districts
there was marked decrease in vio-
lence. There was rioting in Cleve-
! land, but order prevailed in Buffalo,
Pittsburg, New Castle and Farrell,
Pa, where there was trouble Tuesday.
Strike headquarters In Buffalo made
the charge yesterday that the trouble
there had been "inclted" by "hired
detectives" for the purpose of bring
ing in the State constabulary and
breaking up the ranks of the strik-
ers." 1t was also said that Gov.
Smith would be asked to order an
investigation.
Secretary Foster had also sent
complaint to the Governor Of Penn
sylvania concerning the action Of the
State police in dispensing crowds IN
/ that he had been informed that dan
gerous and evil disposed persons at
points in other States were preparing
to collect armed mobs and bring them
across the State lines" and that such
mobs would be treated as invaders Of
Pennsylvania.
In Washington yesterday Samuel
GOmpers, president OF the American
Federation Of Labor, made an attack
before the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee on the methods
which, he said. had been employed
by the steel companies. He charged
the companies with murder, assault,
arrest of men, prohibition of meet
ings on rented ground and workers
dispersed by thugs, gangsters and de-
tective crooks"