Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-09-22

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.Iairton, when the Penn
'sylvania state police had
another brush with
crowds which refused to
disperse. Several shots were fired by
each side, according to the Clarion
police.
According TO the police, c.lwds per
sisted in gathering on Second street
during the morning and We're broken
up. Finally large crowd resisted
the efforts of the police to disperse
the many missiles which were thrown.
The state troopers charged the crowo.
Clubs were welded vigorously.
About a dozen were injured. Several
shots fired by the crowd were re-
turned by the police. No one was
hit.
Twenty arrests We're made and the
prisoners were sent to Jail charged
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the foreign born element was respon.
! for the disorder At noon lie Dor.
| ough was quiet. Yesterdays clash oc-
cured in North Charlton, nearby.
Police Clash With Crowds.
Dawn found mill guards borough
and city police, the mounted Pennsyl-
vania state police. vounteed guards,
deputy sheriffs. detectives and other
| guardians of the law OF duty for any
emergency Likewise the strike lead
| ers in every mill community were
abroad inslructing strikers and pick.
cts in their duty and persuading men
on their way to work 10 turn back and
join in the strike, Early reports indi.
Gated that hundreds OF men were turn
ed back in various communities.
Full protection as far as could be
made was given TO men who deter
mined to go to work, the streets and
road leading to the mills in every
steel community in the Monongahela,
Allegheny and Ohio valleys being pa
trolled by armed guards.
The state police had their first clash
with crowds Sunday afternoon in
North Clarion and near Mckeesport.
where they broke up mass meetings
at the request Of local police officials.
Strike leaders charge that number
of persons in the North Clarion crowd
were severely hurt in the clash there.
Fifty Per Cent Quit at Joliet.
! Chicago, Sept - Numbers Of
workers in plants Of the United States
Steel Corporation at Joliet, Gary.
South Chicago and Indiana Harb,r,
all in the Chicago district at midnight
Joined the nationwide strike of steel
workers called for this morning, but
early today neither representatives OF
( the men nor officials Of the company
! were prepared to give exact figures as
10 the number OF employees who had
ieft their work It was admitted by
company officials that others would
/ fail 10 report for work at y o'clock. the
4 hour for changing shifts.
The number Of steel workers en-
ployed in the Chicago district is esti-
mated at 10000, and representatives
Of the unions today held to their pre-
! yiouS claims that at least s. per cent
Of these workers would strike Com
panN officials said the number of men
who would quit work would not ex.
cced 20 per cent Of the total and
might not 20 above II per cent
six OF the eleven blast furnaces at
the South Chicago plane were closed
: during the night and should the en-
aineers carry out their threat to strike
il was said a total Of thirty-nine blast
furnaces in the Chicago district, which
includes fo"ty.three mills within ra.
, dus of ninety miles of his city, would
be compelled to close. Shutting down
e. of he blast furnaces would affect the
rolling mill, and other branches OF the
steel industry
While the engineers at Joliet, Gary.
Indiana Iiarbor and Hammond have
e voted to strike IN sympathy with The
y steel workers. such action was In OPP
position 10 orders form their interna.
g ticual officers At Joliet union OH.
;, cials claimed that gn0 men out OF the
l. 0u0 employed az the llinois Steel
Il ConpanyS plant there walked ont dur.
i ing the night, and that before the day
l. was over more than one-half OF the
i force would be out.
Pittshurgh, Sept - The strike be-
:, tween organized labor and the EN-
ployors in the steel industry was in
/, fun swing today. In the Pittsburgh
md nearby districts many thousands