The sun., 1919-09-28
BOTH SIDES SEE
STEEL STRIKES
CRUCIAL DAYS
Real Test of Strength Be-
tween Workers and
Employers Is On.
CALL OUT BETHLEHEM
Former Workers Also Issue
Orders to Stop Jones &
Laughlin Plants.
CALL OUT BETHLEHEM
Bv a s,or Correspondent o, THE Sex.

By a Stdf Correspondent OF THE SUS.
PITrsBuRd Sept. 27.-Monday. Tues
day and Wednesday of next week viii
decide the fate OF the steel strike, ac-
cording to steel company officers ami
union leaders.
Both sides issued statements to-day
which in some respects are conflict
ing, but from which the conclusion Ia
inescapable that the companies have
succeeded in putting more of their
plants and furnaces in operation.
This. despite the assertion Of William
q. Foster, secretary of the strikers or-
ganizers, that the plants returned TO
activity are producing nothing but
smoke and noise"
To counterfeit the losses in the ranks
Of the men who walked out strikers
issued definite strike calls to-day for
the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and
for the Jones & Laughlin plant in
Pittsburg. The committeeman in
structed their committee for confer
ence with the railroad brotherhoods To
get immediate results" They believe
that both the Bethlehem and the Jones
& Laughlin plants will strike 100 per
cent. They have invited Senator Ken
yon's committee to come here to see
at first hand the oppression the stri'S-
ers complain Of.
Both sides will make big Sunday
drives tomorrow TO strengthen their
position. In this the men will have
the advantage. Their drive is planned
on the men in their homes. where thsy
can be reached during their rest time
away from the influence of the stare
and local authorities. In addition
meetings are planned throughout the
district.
Moral support of Companies.
The companies are quietly at work in
number of ways backed up by all the
disnterested influences in the valleys,
who are anxious to see the strike over.
Extraordinary precautions against
authorities and the State police. Hun
dreds of men have been rounded Up
throughout the district and searched for
| weapons. AS a result a goodly number
Of pistols blackjacks and brass knuckles
| have been gathered in. Tense hours are
expected Monday, when the big test OF
strength comes with the attempted re-
OPENING of a score of plants.
/ These searches for weapons were con
rev. One plant superintendent last
week requested his company managers
| mere to send him rifles for the "home
! guards" In his town tonight the state
police hauled from suspected houses a
half dozen rifles that the home guards
hac been drilling with all summer. The
superintendent withdrew his request
A mysterious element was injected
| into the situatio to-day by the publica-
ton in all of the Pittsburg papers OF a
full page advertisement saying in three
eight column screamers: go back Ia
: work on Monday" The call is repeated
| In FIVE foreign languages.
Yesterday" the advertisements run
"the enemy of liberty was Prussianism
To-day it is radicalism.' 1t then con-
! tinues:
| "Masquerading under the cloak of the
| American Federation of Labor a few
radicals are striving for power. They
hope to seize control of the industries
! and to turn the country over to the Red
rule of Syndicalism.
What Is syndicalism2 The question
is answered by Organizer Foster. Mr.
Foster is the joint author of pamphlet
In which he frankly states the doctrine.
OF this radical revolutionary movement
Answer in Fosters Words.
Then follow questions from tn,
pamphlet attributed to Foster saying
that "Syndicalism has put anarchy OF
a practical basis" and adding:
They must learn that any Labor
leader who breaches the harmony OF in
terest doctrine Is either an incompetent
ignoramus or a traitor to the working
class and should be treated as such"
The advertisement concludes: Hap
PLY the workers of this country show n,
! eagerness to subscribe to such doctrine
nor to undertake the tremendous task O.
putting in into effect. Some few hav,
. been misled. They went out on strik
not knowing that President Wilson ha,
requested that action be postponed unit
after the general industrial conference
in Washington. called for October G
They went out not knowing that III
real purpose of the strike was to plan
revolution in this country.
But now that the truth is becoming
known they are returning to work The,
have heard OF the tyranny and despot
ism of the Russian Soviet Government
of the Communists In Hungary, OF tn
Spartacans in Germany. and they wan
: no such Red rule In this country. More
over, they know that free America will
never stand other than honest govern
ment of the people. for the people and b!
the people.
'In the past the foreign borns hav