The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-07
Pig Iron Output Is Hit Hard.

Through their control of the common
labor the strikers still dominate the blast
furnace situation and. as one steel man
remarked to-day. You cannot make
bread without dough. and you cannot
make steel without pig iron."
In a certain sense Clarion has be-
come the fulcrum of the situation. In
that town are the plants that produce
most of the by-products essential to
steel production throughout the district.
The company announced that it had
poured the first heat to-day from the
furnace lighted last week.
There are now running at Clarion
five of fourteen open hearth furnaces.
the one blooming mill, three of four
finishing mills and but one of three blast
furnaces. This gives an aggregate
operating ratio of co per cent for Clair
ton. But the blast furnace ratio is only
80 1-3 per cent, and the blast furnace is
in the end the controlling factor.
slightly better ratio on blast fur
naces has been attained at the impor-
tant Edgar Thomson and Carrie fur
naces of the Carnegie plant, Braddock
and Rankin. Six of the eleven Thorn
son furnaces are in blast ana four Of
the seven at the Carrie plant.
As trolley car loaded with workers
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Clarion, to-day five shots were fired at
1t from a nearby hillside. No one was
injured. The magic State police were
on the job quickly, but their search of
the hillside failed to net the snipers.
The coking plant at Clarion is APP
parently operating on a fairly full
schedule.
No attempt was made to open the
plants In Youngstown or the nearby
district to-day. A thousand men were
reported to be engaged in cleaning and
repairing in the Carnegie plant there,
hut there was no sign Of steel making.
Nor was there anything doing at the
plant of the Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Company. normally employing
$4,000 men.
Five plants are running in McKees-
port, but the big Port Vue plant of the
McKeesport Tin Plate Company Is OPP
Grating only its finishing mill. Not
single hot mill is in operation there.
weirton Tin Mill Resumes.
At Weirton, w. Va, the Weirton
Steel Company announced resumption
in its tin department No work was
done in the steel department.
The Lorain Steel Company is working
at Johnston, but there Is nothing doing
at the Cambria works.
Donora and Monessen were the hottest
spots in the quiet struggle for workers
around here this morning. Five small
plants resumed operations. No effort
was made there to resume operations in
the big American Sheet and Tin Plate
plant or in the Loop mill OF the Carnegie
company.
Twenty pickets were arrested In
Monessen as the morning shift went to
work to-day, and a street car was fired
upon in the outskirts of the town.
AT Donora it was said that three de-
partments are now In operation, includ-
ing one wire and rod mill out of three.
tho zinc works and the blooming mill.
No furnaces have been started.
While the u. s. Steel Corporation
contends that tonnage is gaining at
Homestead and that more than 100 new
men were put to work today the railroad
men reported to strike headquarters that
not pound OF finished steel is being
shipped out of the Homestead mill.
New Xensington reported tonight that
two plants of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate, normally employing 1900
men, had resumed in part.
The statement of the Carnegie COM
pany said In part:
Looks as If we have New Castle