The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-10-02
TROOPS REFUSED
IN STEEL STRIKE
Authorities at Waukegan, ILL.,, Re-
queSted Militia Be Sent to
Keep Order.
ANOTHER PLANT IS OPEN
Illinois Steel Company In South Chi
cago Puts Mills In Operation
Mob Stones Foreman's Auto
Pittsburgh Strikers Aided.

Chicago, Sept. 27.-Two hundred
kegan to be in readiness to Quell fur
ther disorders among striking employ
ees of the American Steel & Wire COM
pany. An appeal was made to Gov
ernor Lowden for state troops, but
Adjutant General Dickson, after Wis
II to the city, decided that Sheriff Ell
mer j. Green could handle the situa-
tIon by mastering a large force of dep
uties. He declined to call out the
militia at present. All was quiet about
the wire works during the morning.
Another mill of the Illinois Steel
company's South Chicago plant was
placed in operation today and the act
ual manufacture of steel begun for
the first time since the calling of the
strike.
Even union officials admitted that
the activity in the plant was no longer
camoufage-for the characteristic
glow of steel was in the sky all
night and the extension of activities
indicated an increasing operating
force.
The duplex mill was manned and re-
opened and preparations made to fan
to fame the banked fires under two
more furnaces.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept 27.-Interest
in the steel strike situation in the
Pittsburgh district conferred today
about the fight of the union for "the
right Of free speech and free assem-
blage" in Allegheny county, a question
which has been prominent here for
many months and which was brought
to a head by the walkout of steel
workers.
According to union representatives,
authorities of certain cities and towns
I'm the country have refused to grant
ings, and have sanctioned the breaking
up of such sessions by state troopers
and local police in many instances.
According to union representatives,
the sheriff has given them permission
TO hold indoor meetings within the
county, and has promised protection
for orderly gatherings" of strikers in
halls.
Youngstown, O.. Sept. 25.-0hio's
greatest steel center, the Mahoning
valley with the city of Youngstown
as its axis. is completely shut down.
No dark clouds of smoke indicating
activity of thousands of workmen
obscure the skies. The sun shines I'M
INSTRUCTED.
The steel strike has resulted in the
closing of every mill In the valley,
Forty-four thousand men are idle and
weekly wages aggregating approx
mately S2,500,000 are unearned and
unpaid.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. '25.-Disorders
incident to the strike continue in the
Pittsburgh district. The most serious
outbreak occurred at Farrell, Pa,
where two men were killed during
a clash between strikers and their
sympathizers and state troopers In
the disorders of Monday and Tuesday,
at Farrell, Newcastle and other points,
four persons have been killed, more
than a score shot, many others have
been slightly wounded and hundreds
of arrests have been made.
Cleveland, Sept 25.-Four men were
stabbed, two probably fatally and two
others not so severely. at the entrance
of the American Steel and Wire com
pany's Newburg plant in the first seri-
Gus local disorder of the steel strike.
The trouble broke out when a car
stnnned to let off Workmen.