The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-25
STRIKE
DEVELOPMENTS j
NOT NUME R0Us
Both Sides Claim Advantage in
Situation
VIOLENCE is MUCH LESS
Foster Predicts Shutdown of All
important Mills in Pitsburg
District
VIOLENCE is MUCH LESS

New York, Sept 24.-The third day
of the great steel STRIKE passed with
out either capital or labor having
made any apparent material gains.
/ Last night attention was being focus
sed on Washington where the inquiry
into the industrial struggle by the
Senate labor committee is to open. to-
day.
From their respective headquarters.
industrial leaders and directors of the
strike issued their usual conflicting
statements, which left still in doubt
| the exact number of workers who
have walked out William z. Foster.
secretary of the strikers national
committee claimed that, in the vari-
out steel centers, $4,000 more men
had abandoned their posts, bringing
/ the total to $4,000 but in the crucial
Pitts burgh district, officials Of the U.
! S. Steel corporation and several "in-
! dependents asserted that the stream
Of labor had turned and was flowing
| into the mills
| According to reports from Pitts
! bHrgh where union labor leaders
| held a general parley to consider con
1hhNI VI Allt oAiihtB lihAti6tlo VI lHb
! plants are seeking now to take the Of
fensive. Not content with merely
| holding what forces remain, they are
said to be trying TO- induct wayering
strikers to return. On the other
hand labors recruiting forces are not
inactive, as shown by the fact that of
ganizers from the Mine Workers un-
| ion have been called to reinforce
agents Of the steel workers union in
| enrolling nOn-union workers
Despite the prediction of Mr.. Fos-
ter that, through the work of these
organizers, the strikers will be able
gradually to shut down all the import
ant works in the Pittsburgh district,
employers of labor claimed that yes.
terday they had been able to increase
| production in all important plants, in
cluding those In Homestead Clarion
| Braddock, Duquesnet and the Pitts
burgh city mills of the Carnegie com
pany
As in Pittsburgh the situation in
Chicago also was clouded by conflict,
ling reports Tho ihdsutry in that sec
ton, though crippled by the closing
of many plants. was by no means. tied
up and the company officials claimed
additions had been made to the re-
duced forces with which they were
continuing operations.
In the Youngstown district, where
advances were claimed by the strik-
ers, the strike spread yesterday to
Ifabrcating plants, two of which were
closed as was the Youngstown Press
ed Steel company. Paralysis of pro
duction in the Mahoning Valley,
caused by idleness of $4,000 workers,
continues, every plant being closed.
From Canton, Ohio, came the an
Inouncement by the general manager
of the Canton Sheet Steel company
that his men, numbering 1900, had
voted to return to work.
In the Colorado district. plants of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron company
in Pueblo which closed Monday, re.
main idle and, according to officials.
will make no effort to operate with
strikebreakers.
Yesterday was marked by sharp
decrease in violence, Although riot
ing occurred in Cleveland, order
reigned in Buffalo, N. Y, and Pitts
burgh, Newcastle and Farrell, Pa, the
storm centers Tuesday.
On the heels of these riots came
charges from strike headquarters that
in Buffalo the trouble had been lin
cited by hired detectives" for the
purpose of bringing in the state con
stabulary and breaking the ranks of
the strikers"