The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-22
STRIKE BULLETINS

Cleveland, o.. Sept. 22.-"Nineteen
thousand men are already out and be-
fore night we will have between rs, 900
and $4,000 men striking here" said H.
w. Raisse. union organizer in charge
Of the steel strike in the Cleveland dis
trict early today.
Operations in two steel plants here
ceased at midnight and the other
plants, with the possible exception of
one. were expected to be tied up dur
ing the morning.
The sixteen mills of the American
Steel & Wire company, a steel cor
poration subsidiary, employing nine
thousand men, were completely closed
down The Mckinney Steel company,
1argest independent plant was also
shut down. The Bourne Fuller COM
pany plant. another independent en-
ploying $500 men, was reported idle.
Joliet, ILL.,. Sept. "a small per-
centage of the 1000 employees of the
United States Steel corporation plant
here were ready to go to work today.
Despite last minute statements by
officials that the mills would be kept
running. there were signs they would
be forced to shut down.
Birmingham. Sept. 22.-Every steel
plant in the Birmingham district was
operating today, most of them practi-
cally at full capacity. Labor officials
attributed the small response to the
strike order to the fact that tomorrow
| is pay day at two big plants in the
Ensley district and that two others
pay Thursday.
Buffalo, Sept. 22-Union men
claimed that 10 per cent of the work
men in the steel plants of the Lacka-
wanna Steel company, the Rogers
Brown Steel company and the Donner
Steel company obeyed the strike call
today
Less than 200 workers reported at
the Lackawanna Steel company this
morning. There was no disorder
around the plant.
Youngstown. o.. Sept. 22.-Early
reports from the various steel mil
| centers at s o'clock this morning in
| dicated that the employees obeyed the
strike orders generally and that prac-
| tically all mills in the Mahoning val
| ley either were badly crippled or may
| be forced to suspend operations alto
! gether. At union headquarters it wa'
| declared the strike is a complete sue
cess and that every mil is closed.
! Atlanta. Ga, Sept 22.-Twelve hun.
dred employees of the Atlantic Stee
| company here reported for work a.
usual this morning. President r. G
Allen of the local steel workers union
stated he had received no instructions
from union headquarters to take par
in the steel strike.
Steelton. Pa. Sept 22.-Every EN-
\ ploye of the Bethlehem Steel plan
here reported for duty this morning
officials of the plant reported. Uniol
| leaders said the men were all at worl
pending the conference with compan!
! officials "a Gkad for NEXT Thursday.
Milwaukee, Sept. 22.-About sO'
out of 1,S00 employees of the Illinois
Steel company, a subsidiary of tht
| Gated at Bayview. Milwaukee. failet
to report for duty this morning, ac
cording to members of the steel work
ers union.
Coleraine, Mimi, Sept 22.-Ther
was no sign of a strike in mines ol
the Western Mesaba range today
Mine workers in Coleraine. Bovey
Taconite and other neighboring town
are said by mine officials to be nearl
all American and that they will no
strike. Foreign miners are declare
to be I w. w. members which organ
ization is opposed to a strike at thi
time.
Duluth, Sept. 22.-There is no strik
at Ihe minnesota steel company pidI
here, according to officials of the com
pany this morning. The men are re
ported unorganized and. it was stated
no men quit work. News from tn
steel corporations mines on the Rang
is incomplete. but the general tenor
that men there reported this mornin
for work as usual.
Lorain, Ohio, Sept. 22.-Officials c
steel plants here and in Elyria an
nounced that their mills opened a
; usual this morning with practicall
r all Of their men working.
Officials OF the National Tube com
pany. a local subsidiary of the Unite
States Steel Corporation, issued
, statement that all the five thousan
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