The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1919-10-02
STEEL DEADLOCK
STILL UNBROKEN
Each Strives to Prevent Stam-
pede Which Would Bring Al
most Sure Victory.
STRIKE PHASE is CRITICAL.
Disorders Decrease-Foster's Esti-
mate of Men Out Climbs to 342 ,ooo-
Eight American Sheet Company
Works are Running

Pittsburgh.-The critical period of
the great steel strike has been entered
upon showing both sides straining
every nerve to swing their way the
stampede into or away from the mills
Corporation officials asserted the
trend was into plants In the Pittsburgh
district, where the works are operating
strongly. Labor declared a gain of
10000 was made, for total of 342, 900
men now out. The situation in the
West, where the industry is crippled
remained unchanged.
1.-The strike will end a minute and
half after Judge Gary consents to
conference with representatives of
the unions on strike" was the declara-
ton of John Fitzpatrick, chairman of
the American Federation of Labor's
National Committee, at its conference
in Pittsburgh just before he left for
Washington to attend the senate steel
investigation.
The National Committee will ask the
railroad brotherhoods to aid in the
general strike, it was authortativeIy
reported
Sporadic rioting broke out in steel
cities. At Glassport, Pa, the state con-
stabulary charged 1000 strikers and
four persons were wounded, shots were
fired and clubs freely used
Four men were stabbed, two prob
ably fatally, and two others were
badly beaten near the entrance of the
Newberg plant OF the American Steel
and Wire Company, in Cleveland, o.
Strike leaders at Buffalo will ask
Governor Smith to order an investiga-
ton of Tuesdays riot at Lackawanna,
in which one person was shot dead.
Governor Sproul. of Pennsylvania,
wired William C. Foster, secretary of
the labor committee, in answer tn his
protest against the state constabulary
The governor supported the activities
of the troopers and declared armed
mobs from across the Pennsylvania
state line were preparing an invasion
and that if they came over they would
be dealt with as invaders.
Violence is decreasing in this dis
/ trict and the state cOnstabulary, depu-
ties and regular police seem to have
the situation we'll in hand in the out
| lying districts.
The outstanding features of the stu
alton today were:
The United States Steel Corpora
tion still holds the key position in
Pittsburgh and the Monongahela Val
ley through its subsidiary, the Carne-
| gle Steel Company, although the
unions say they have called out enough
| men to cut the production in half in
the district
The employers gained ground I'm the
| Chicago district. where the slab mills
| Of the Illinois Steel Company at South
| Chicago reOpened; In Canton. o..
where the striking employees of the
| Canton Steel Company voted to return
to work, and In Cambridge, o., where,
! il is reported, the men who had quit
were slowly returning to the mills.
The National Tube Company did nc
! attempt to start up its plant,
bur reported that the McKeesport
| mills were running with almost the full
/ force.
As far as permitted by police regula-
/ tious. the striking workers were estab-
/ fishing pickets about those steel mills
that are still I'm operation. In the
streets Of the various towns were great
-uubers of men moving sullenly at the
.de-s Of the mounted state constabu-
/ larry whose full cartridge belts gave
evidence of grim determination to
suppress any rioting which might break
| forth
Runors Of import9tions Of strike
/ breakers have proved false TranspOr-
tation promised to bring a problem,
with frainmen reported reluctant to
handle supplies for the steel mills and
lake seamen grumbling over handling
ore for the companies.