Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-24
More Mills Shut,
Idle Employees Assert

on duty.
One furnace in the open hearth dc
partment of the Allegheny steel Com
pany in the Allegheny valley was re
ported to have started today. Nirtu
ally all the carpenters employed in the
mill also reported. it was said. The
plate mill was also in operation.
Foster Enters Denial
William Z. Foster did not agree with
the Carnegie figures. lie reiterated
that the strike was spreading. lie
predicted that the Homestead plant
would be- closed down by the end of
the week Mr. Foster. commenting
said that. in the Chicago district the
company is giving out information that
they have only a 20 per cent shut down
there, while the union leaders there
know positively that there is an OS
per cent shutdown.
I'VE closed two large independent
plants in Pittsburgh today" he added.
IhCy were the plants of the 4. VI.
KHcrS Company and the Oliver (
Snyder Steel Company"
Mr. Foster said that he was hichlv
pleased with the strike progress in this
district. Al DuQuPSne and Clairtun he
Sa'd mCn were continually walking out t
tic declared that the local steel plGntS
WCrc virtually shut down. with tho cx =
""ption of the Jones y Laughlin works
ou the South Side
Mine Workers Aides Arrive
Tho advance guard Of large num-
Der Of organizers sent into the district
by the United Mine Workers Union
began to arrive today. They are being
assigned ia Homestead. Braddork aud
other largo steel towns.
Everything was reported quiet around
the plant Of the National Tube Com
pany here. The plant. which closed
down last night did not reopen thi,
morning because of the shortage of mon
Th" works of the National Tube
Company in MckeCsport were Upcr-
ating without difficulty today. ac-
cording to an official. while at strike
headquarters in MckecspUrt it was said
employees report two blast furnaces
banked and that the pipe furnace had
been shut down. The union men claim
1000 men on strike in the works.
Conflicting claims also continue &c
come from small independent plants in
the Pittsburgh district. Many of them
are working, but few of them full
handed, according to the best informa .
tiOn, obtainablc.
Inquiry at the general offices here Of
the American Steel aud Wirc Company
As to the situation in its plants scat =
tered throughout the Pittsburgh dis
trct. elected this general statement
"Littlc change in the plants in the ont r
lying districts; change for the better
in the Pittsburgh field; Shoenbergcr
works of the company in Pittsburgh
working full handed; many men who
feared to work Monday and Tuesday
now returning because of assurance of
police protection.
Waterman Meets Death
The coroner is investigating the death
of a Waterman early today at the Nun
hall plant of tho Carnegie Company.
According to officials of the company
| he had been assigned to guard duty on
mOtOrboat and while stepping from
one boat to another his shotgun was
accidentally discharged, killing him.
At the Offices of the American Sheet
and Tin Plate Company. another sub
sidiary Of the United States Steel Cor
pOration. it was announced that tclc
gram has been sent TO J. \. Farrell.
New York, president of the corporation
that the following plants were in full
operation this morning:
Scottdalc. Pa. two plants Cam
bridge. Ohio: WcllsvilIr, Ohio: Cana
/ Dover. Ohio; New Philadelphia. Ohio
/ Morgantown. W. Va: Chester, W
Va. and McKcesport. Pa.
-Four Have Been Killed
Disorders incident TO tho strike con
tinuod in the Pittsburgh district yestcr
DAY and last night. The most seriou
outbreak occurred at Farrell, Pa.
where one man was killed during
clash between strikers and state troop
ers. In the disorders of Monday an
Tuesday at Farrell. New Castle an,
other points four persons have bee
killed. more than a score shot, man
others have been slightly wounded an
hundreds of arrests have been made.
The first serious outbreak in thi
city since the strike began ocrurre
last night when one man probably wa
fatally injured. special pOliCcma
seriously hurt and several others wpr
injured in a riot in the Lawrpnceyll
mill district last night.
The rioting started when Paul 10
>imShi. a workman, was attacked by
dozen or more men while on his wa,
to the plant of the American Steel an,
: Wire Company. Special Policeman
Samuel Carter, negro, went TO 10
simshi's rescue. Ny this time they weI
surrounded by a mob of several hun
dred persons.
Seek Shelter In shop
: Finding the odds against them tn
. two men sought shelter in meat shor
, The crowd is alleged to have attempte
to enter the building and fred numbe
of shots. Joseph Hungart2, twenty
. one. said by the police 10 be striker
fell with a bullet wound in the abdC
, men. lie was badly trampled by III
= men as they rushed into the shop.
Hungartz is in hospital in seriOl
condition. Special Policeman Carte
. who received q probable fracture of tt
!. left arm and left shoulder blade. au
a was beaten about the face and bod,
n also is in serious condition. kOsimN
was bruised about the face and head.
The plant of Spang, Chalfant & 60
Inc. at Etna. closed down last nigh
throwing about 300 men out of en-
ployment The decision TO shut dow
4 the plant followed the failure Of Il
q night shift to report in full. This
= an independent concern.