Republican farmer., 1919-09-26
SHOTS ARE EXCHANGED
 IN FIGHTING BETWEEN
 POLICE AND STRIKERS

ployed by the Bethlehem Steel Com pany that these men would not join the strike pending an attempt to ob- tain a conference with the company officials.
 Some of the blast furnaces in the Pittsburgh district were banked but the majority Of the plants were in operation although admittedly with forces reduced rom Is per cent to G6 per cent In the Chicago, district, including Gary and Hammond, where 90, 900 s5ceI workers are employed. similar conditions were reported At Cleveland the union leaders claimed that l5.OOO men were out and that 1G mills of the American Steel and Wire Company, employing 5000 men were closed down
 At Ohio's second greatest steel center, Youngstown, the strike lead CTS also claimed that the great ma iorfty of the workers had struck and ct Steupenville where three plants of the Carnegie Steel company are To-
 cated. it was asserted that all three
 had been forced to suspend opera tons.
 At the less important points In Ohio and Pennsylvania. including Portsmouth. Warren, Canton, Toledo, Columbus. Loraiu, POttsville. Read Ing and Harrisburg, officials of the ,-a~ioua plants announced that thcir mon had remained loyal and that Op- cretions were in full swing. One not able exception was Johnstown, Pa,
 where 12,OOO men are reported to have struck.
 Outside the great pivotal states of Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. con- ditio1s were reported nearly normal with few important exceptions Al Buffalo where the great independ- | ent plants of the I.ackawanna Steel Company are located, the union chiefs ! claimed that 70 per cent. of the work [ CTS had obeyed the strike call Al , Vvheelinz. West Virginia, it was as serted that 8,C9O men were idle The ! Colorado Fuel and Iron Company s plant al Pueblo, Colorado, was closed down when its 2,OO0 employees walked out.
 { The mills of the Illinois Steel Com pany at South Chicago were closed, ! the unions estimating that 95 per cent. of 4,0CC men on the day shift had struck.
 i Pittsburgh, Sept. 22.---The struggle . between orga aujzed labor and the em- { gIoyers in the steel industry was in T g ! oad nearby districts many thousands of men obeyed the orders Of their : leaders and failed to report when the whistles blew for the day shifts to go to work. How many joined in the walkoUt and with what degree of eff 7 fecuiveness the strike was initiated ! was not known definitely by either ] side in the contest in the early hours
 of the day.
 Dawn found mill guards, borough ! and city police, the mounted Penn ! sylyania state police, volunteer guards, deputy sheriTs, detectives
 and other guardians of the law on i duty for any emergency. Likewise the | strilye leaders in every steel mill com ! munity was abroad instructing st-ik-
 CTS and Dickets in their duty and per
 suading men on their way to work
 to turn back and join in the strike.
 Early reports indicated that hun dreds of men were turned back in l various communities.
 Full protection as far as could be made was given to men who deter
 mined to go to work, the streets and l roads leading to the mills in every
 steel continuity in the MonongaheIa, Allegheny and Ohio valleys being pa- ] troucd by armed guards
 l Early reports from populous center.
 of Allegheny county showed that tht
 strillc went into effect without an,
 disturbances. At McEeesport, stron.
 efforts were made to bring out tn,
 men, all streets leading to the stee
 mills were heavily guarded. Rair
 fell in the early hours which ha,
 the effect of keeping men from con l gregating.
 Al Braddock, where the UniteC | States Steel Corp0ra .ion has extensiv, | works and also at Homestead, crowds
 of men walked the streets but ever
 one was kept moving. No early re 1 ports came from steel corporation ! sources of the effect of the 5triks.