The sun., 1919-09-29


where q slavoiic priest OF great in
fiuence has been advising the men TO re-
main on strike, the reports from the
Monongahela Valley were encouraging to
the companies All but one Of the plants
OF New Castle we're to open tonight or
tomorrow.
At Farrell. where trouble2 has been
most constant throughout the strike, two
Of the three open hearth furnaces were
In operation tonight New departments
throughout the mills have been opened.
Secretary Foster continued to deqy
that his men are returning TO work.
'-rhe situation" he said, SIS really n
military one. 1t Is what happened on
the western front sgai,' and again. Wc
made the attack, and at every place
but the Pittsburg district. where we
were hindered In our organization by
the outrageous interference of the au-
thorities, we broke clean through. We
knocked them of their pins. Here in
Pittsburg we dented the line and, natur-
ally the bosses are now making their
counter attack. It's been boiling up
ali week with attacks on me, with stories
OF men going back to work. and culmt-
nstinE with the page advertisement In
the Pittsburg papers yesterday trying
to deceive the men into going back to
work.
Says strikers Are ''DuG In"
'But our men are dug in, as they
say. We believe that we are In good
form to withstand the counter attao)t.
Tomorrow and the next few days will
tell the tale and we believe that 1t Will
be good one"
Foster denied again that the men
were gong back in Chicago or any place
else along the line.
tour of the Monongahela Valley
this afternoon indicated that there is
much truth in the company's claims.
At Homestead nearly every chimney
OF the great Carnegie mills was show
ing faint train of smoke from fires
banked for Sunday. Railroad yards
were active. Across the river several
OF the big Carrie furnaces showed then-
selves in full blast.
Further UP at Rankin and at -he
Edgar Thomson Works while a Sun
day quiet pervaded the valley, the mills
gave every evidence Of the continuance
OF these processes which cannot be in
terrupted even for Sunday and of readi-
ness to resume In full or apparently In
fuii Tomorrow. Guards sat on the walls
and stood about the gates. while late
In the afternoon the men came from
their light Sunday tricks with their din
ner pals over their arms and without
sign Of any disturbance
Two shootings were recorded In the
district to-day, but one was a purely
personal quarrel at the end Of a peaceful
meeting few miles from Clarion. In
the other. Pittsburg policeman shot a
striker In the legs when he started to
run away from arrest after refusing to
move on.
The Clarion strikers had not been able
to get a hall for their meetings within
the town, so they arranged to use the
little sehoolhouse of the Terminal Rail-
way and Mine Company's settlement
near the village of Large, across q
stream from one of the Monongaheia
valleys once most famous distilleries.
When the reporter for The Sun ar
rived at this meeting the little school
house was jammed by men who cheered
speeches In English. Outside perhaps
200 men pressed about the doors and
loafed on the porches of the houses or
stood about the hillsides.
state. Troopers Arrive.
In q few minutes a detail of eight
state troopers in charge of a corporal
rode up. The corporal dismounted and
with another man walked up to the
situation In a calm and businesslike way
Each man carried the three foot stick
or mace. which can do such heavy worl
In a crowd. The strikers gazed with In.
dtnerent scorn on the troopers and the
latter returned the look with interest.
Then the corporal called one, of the
strike leaders to the door.
''Get some of the other school rooms
open." he said quietly and politely
n I'D a.
law for more than two persons TO con.
: gregate outside, and II you were Presi.
dent Wilson you'd have to obey the Law
while we're here"
Then he went down the hill to where
the rest of his men lolled in their saddles
smoking cigarettes. With a few ges.
lures, he split them into patrols to &c
through the other little streets of tbs
village. while he himself remounted an6
with single companion rode up tins
hill again. The strike leaders saw then
coming, their wiry little horses scram
bling up the bank, and it needed M
further word of command from thC
troopers to send the overflow audience
into one of the other school rooms o.
away to their homes.
At that the police did not insist hard
They let fifty men or so stand in thu
doorway Of the school. They allowed
across the way. and in odd knots on tn,
hiilsides. These police made much lesl
fuss than a New York cop at a fire lin
and the crowd obeyed them withou
the slightest effort at delay.
"Heigho!' yawned the corporal afts
q while. "this Is a good meeting. Las
week they greeted US with bricks an,
bullets"
And y certainly was q good meeting
and If this is the standard way tn
"cossacks'' work they don't earn thei
name. 1t certainly would have takei
one of the crowd to start trouble at tina
meeting.
The theme OF the speeches here ant
at the other meetings was that the mel
must respect the government first; tina
they must respect II better than Judg
Gary and the Steel Corporation.
"If you just stay away from th