The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-21
POLICE PREPARING
FOR GREAT STEEL
STRIKE TOMORROW
LARGE NUMBER OF MEN SWORN
IN AS SPECIAL GUARDS AT
THE BIG PLANTS

chances of averting the steel strike
gone and with plants all over the Pitts.
burg district shutting down for the
weekend, police authorities in many
communities where steel mills are sit.
uated prepared today to handle the
situation as it develops with the COM
ing of the walkout on Monday. The
United States Steel Corporation Off.
Gals directly in charge of its plants
were busily engaged in preparing for
the strike.
request was made of loyal EN-.
ployes to assist the Corporation to
guard its property against injury. A
large number of men, it was declared,
responded and Were sworn i'm as
guards to assist the regular company
police. Officials would not admit that
the steel company's guard would mum,
ber nearly 10000 in this district as
reported.
At the national headquarters. pre-
parations for The holding of mass
meetings tomorrow in all communities
where steel workers, are, went for.
ward. 1t is the expectation Of the
union leaders that with the strike in
effect, they will greatly increase their
membership through these mass meet.
ings.
From all over the district come re
ports that steel mills will operate
Monday if sufficient men report for
work. Workmen of the West Penn
Steel Company and the Allegheny
steel plant at Breckenridge were APP
pealed to by S. NJ. Hazlett of
the Allegheny Valley Chamber Of
Commerce, to remain at work if
they are loyal American citizens.
Both plants We're closed today to
give their workmen an opportu-
nifty to meet and consider the
adyisabilty of walking out Monday.
The Sharon Steel Hoop Company at
Sharon, Pa, and the Wheeling Steel
and Iron Company, announced their
plants would continue to operate as
long as men reported for work.
More than 95 per cent of the en-
ployes of the North Works of the
Carnegie Steel Company at Sharon
today voted against the projected strike
Monday, company officials said. Of
ficials of other steel plants appealed
to the sheriff for sufficient deputies
to handle the situation in event of
trouble.
All plants Of the United States Steel
Corporation in the Pittsburg district
where any employe is member Of the
steel workers union, will be, shut
down tonight for an indefinite period.
according to reports in circulation
here last night. The reports could
not be verified officially, but origlnat-
ed from a trustworthy source, accord
ing TO u local news bureau.
Conflicting Reports
Plants that are 100 per cent loyal
will remain in operation and loyal men
in those plants which will close will
be taken care Of by the company, the
reports say.
Mills which were reported have an
nounced their intention to close to-
night include those of Rankin, Brad
dock, Etna and Homestead and in
Pittsburg proper. From the same
source u report was circulated that
the Sonora plant, the largest zinc plant
of the United States Steel Corporation,
will remain in operation, as the en-
ployes sent delegation to officers of
the company assuring them Of 100
per cent loyalty.
Those plants which will remain
working will continue to do so, the
reports aver, only so long as opera
tions are not nterfered with. Should
the mills close, it is unofficially esu-
mated that by Monday morning 1885,
coo men will be idle.
Reports that the United States
Steel Corporation would shut down
its plants in the Pittsburg district un-
less there was 100 per cent loyalty
shown by the workers We're denied
today at the officers of the Carnegie
Steel Company, Il subsidiary. The
plants will operate as long as men
report for work, it was said.
Machine Guns in Mills
The reports caused stir in labor
circles here but We're not believed in
view Of the statement made by L. II.
Gary, chairman of the board Of the
United States Steel Corporation in his
letter to the presidents of the subsi-
diary companies that the plants should
proceed with their business in the
usual way.
At national strike headquarters to-
day w. H. Foster, secretary of the
national committee of the steel work
ers said that the next move was up
to the employers. 1--WE have called
., ba cold thpNr will
stay out until the companies make a
move that will bring them back"
Asked how many men he expected
will answer the strike call, Mr.. Eos
ter replied that he did not know but
that the union would begin count |
ing noses" Monday.
Mr.. Foster was also asked whether
he knew if steel companies through
out the country were fortifying their
plants and said that the committee
had been receiving reports for a long |
time that guns, machine guns and
ammunition have been taken into
mills from time to time.
New York, Sept. 29.-It was learned /
at the offices of the United States Steel
Corporation that the methods to be en- |
ployed in combating the strike called
for Monday morning would be left in
a general way to the direction Of the
heads of the various plants and sub
salaries. The plans to be followed are
not expected to be uniform, but will
be governed largely by local conditions.
1t is not the intention Of the corpora
tiop ~ oloca oil plantS whera tho ON, |