2
MILLS IN EAST
PENNA. OPERATE
WITHOUT LOSS
Strike at Coatesvillc Is Only
Exception in This Sec
tion of State
Philadelphia, Sept. 23. With a
single exception there was no evi
dence early to-day of a strike in
the score or more steel plants in
Philadelphia and other eastern
Pennsylvania cities.
The excoption was at Coatesville
where approximately 400 men out
of 6,000 employed by the Midvale
and Lukens Steel Companies re
main away from work. Officials of
both plants said last night they were
operating as usual and that produc
tion would not materially be reduc
ed unless more workmen quit.
Pickets were out at both mills, but
there was no disorder.
Normal conditions were reported
by the Midvale Steel and Ordnance
Company, the Pencoyd Iron Works
and the Baldwin Locomotive Works
in this city. Employers declared
that the proportion of organized
steel workers in the Philadelphia
plants is small and that no cessation
of work here is anticipated.
Similar reports were received from
the steel and iron plants in Read
ing, the Eastern Steel Company at
Pottsville, the Steelton plant of the
■Bethlehem Steel Company and the
steel and wire mills at Allentown,
Oatnsauqua, Hacungle and Topton.
Officials at all these plants said they
were operating as usual and that
there were no indications of a
strike.
Employes of the Reading Iron
Company at Danville, numbering
more than 500, voted to live up to
their agreement with the company.
The agreement does not expire until
July, 1920.
Union employes of the Bethlehem
Steel Company at Allentown have
decided not to participate in the
strike, pending action on a request
for a conference with officials of
the company.
Normal conditions were reported
at all the steel plants in and adja
cent to Wilmington. Del.
OUTLYINGSECTIONS
NEED MORE POLICE
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the United States Steel Corporation,
were practically dead, he asserted.
Mr. Foster's claims were not
borne out by reports coming from
the Carengie Company and from in
dependent steel company sources.
The situation is improved, was the
flat declaration of a representative
of the Carnelgie Company. "We
have more men going to work at
Homestead," he said, "and our re
ports show additional men are com
ing back at other plants of the
company."
Situation Better
It was said by a company repre
sentative that the situation at the
Carrie furnaces at Rankin was bet
ter than yesterday. One blast fur
nace was put in operation to-day
and another expected to do the
same to-night.
At certain points in Western
Pennsylvania outside the Pittsburgh
district strike conditions while not
bad were not as good as they were
in the vicinity of Pittsburgh it was
said in corporation sources. This,
was due, it was further said, be
cause police protection for men who
wnnted to go to work was not as
adequate as it was in and near
Pittsburgh.
Few disorders were reported in
the earlier hours of the day except
at Farrell, in the northwestern part
of the State near the Ohio line.
Rioting occurured there last night
and one man was shot and killed
and a number of others were in
jured bv bullets, including a State
Trooper. Sporadic rioting also oc
curred there to-day, it being report
ed that a number of persons were
wounded in shooting affrays.
Women Arrested
Three women were arrested at
McKeesport to-day for alleged at
tempts to intimidate men who re
fused to go on strike. One of the
women was atttred in men's cloth
ing.
One of the women is alleged to
have thrown a bucket of water on
•i loyal workman when he refused
'o listen to her plea not to go to,
work. When a patrolman came to
ihe man's rescue, the officer was
meared with a bucket of whitewash
it was alleged.
J. L Reaghen, of Pittsburgh, vice
-irestdent of the Pittsburgh Central
Union, and John Patterson,
of Chicago, vice-president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen,
'wo union organizers, arrested yes
terday, were fined $lOO and costs
on a charge of disorderly conduct
and violating a city ordinance, in
McKeesport police court.
"Getting Good Break"
The Monongahela Valley plants
in Donora and Monessen remained
hut down to-day. No attempt was
made to work. More than 12,000
men are out ip Monessen and ap
proximately 5,000 are out of work at
Donora.
The Second avenue plant of the
National Tube Company in this city
did not resume operations to-day,
about 2,200 men being idle. Only
100 laborers showed up for work.
"We are getting a very good
break," said an official of the Car
negie Steel Company to-day, in giv
ing an authorized summary of the
rituatton in the Pittsburgh district
o far ns it relates to that.corpora
tlon.
"If becomes more apparent that
'he strike is due entirely to activi
ties among foreign workmen. Al
most without exception our Amer-
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lean workmen are with us and are
either actually at work or are ready
to go to work at the first oppor
tunity.
Foreigners Coming Back
"A most encouraging feature is
that a number of the foreign ele
| ment returned to work this morn
ing. This relieves the situation at
the Carrie furnucestln Rankin, where
it is hoped to start one of the fur
naces during the day. Other depart
ments of the Homestead plant are
operating and In every instance
there are at least as many men
working as yesterday. There is a
noticeable increase in the number
of men in the general labor de
partment. The Americans are stick
ing to their work to a man, and
there is absolutely no disorder.
"The Edgar Thomson works con
tinue to operate and more men re
ported for work here than yester
day. The open hearth, too, is In
better shape. This plant reports
that quite a few of the foreign
speaking men have returned to work
this morning. •
"All told the situation in the
Monongahela, where our four big
mills are located, is considerably
improved and is encouraging."
The Carnegie Steel Company,
largest subsidiary here of the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation, has
closed several of its plants in the
district, but according to an official
of the concern, the situation is im
proving.
Disorders, some of a serious na
ture, marked the first day of the
strike in the Pittsburgh district.
Two men were killed at Farrell, Pa.,
one during a clash between State
Police and local officers and a crowd
of about 1,500 persons, near the
American steel and wire plant. The
other victim was murdered by a
fellow boarder when he is said to
have refused to go on strike.
Two Troopers Shot
Two State Troopers were shot
during the Farrell outbreak, while
seven persons were struck by bul
lets during a clash between mill
guards and a crowd at New Castle,
Pa. Other disorders occurred in the
district and many persons were
slightly wounded.
One man was killed, two State
Troopers were shot and many other
persons less seriously injured last
night in an outbreak at Farrell. The
fight occurred near the American
steel and wire plant, when, it is said,
members of a crowd threw bricks
and other missiles at the State Po
lice and local officers. Paul Prouse
died as the result of a bullet wound
received during the melee. Private
Frank Millignn and Sergeant Smith,
State Troopers, were struck hy bul
lets and the former is in a serious
condition.
* Arrest Klcvcn
Disorders, so much feared by po
lice authorities in the steel strike
zone, were in evidence in several
places in the Pittsburgh district.
During a melee in front of the
zinc plant of the American Steel
and Wire Company at Donora early
last evening, one man was shot and
slightly wounded. Other persons
suffered minor bruises.
Riding into a crowd at an en
trance of the Carnegie Company's
plant at Homestead, after it had re
fused to disperse. State Troopers
last night arrested eleven men and
turned them over to the Homestead
police.
Another outbreak occurred short
ly afterward in Homestead, where
a large crowd ussembled. The State
Police charged and, it is alleged,
used their sticks freely. Several men
suffered bruises, but none was se
riously hurt,
I yogion Is Loyal
Two men were slightly injured in
an early outbreak at the entrance
to the Farrell, Pa., plant of the
American Steel and Wire Company
during the change of shifts. The
two men were attacked by a crowd
of about 2,000 persons. The trouble
was quelled by mill guards and bor
ough police.
The tirst fatality to result from
the steel strike occurred last night
when Alexander Russ, of Farrell,
was killed by a fellow boarder be
cause he had not struck.
The East Liberty Post of the
American Legion last night adopt
ed a resolution declaring that if the
necessity arises it will offer its
services to the proper authorities
to aid in maintaining law and or
der.
Two New Troops
An early survey of strike condi
tions in Carnegie Steel Company
plants in the immediate vicinity of
Pittsburgh, said an official of the
company showed no material change
from that of last night. It was stated
that conditions at the Homestead
plant were improving and that more
men were reporting. At Duquesne,
the company representatives said,
the plant was working 100 per cent.
The company had no early reports
from outlying sections, it was said.
Six arrests of men found loitering
about the Jones and Laughlin plant
counting the workers as they came
out, police said, were made early.
They are said to have refused to
move on when ordered.
It was learned to-day that two full
troops of State Police, about fifty
each, have been ordered from the
eastern part of the State to the wes
tern part of Pennsylvania. One of
the troops will operate out of Greens
burg and the other out of Butler,
the headquarters of the two troops
permanently located in this section
of the State.
William Z. Foster, secretary of
the steel workers national commit
tee, said to-day reports from men
in the field showed that the strike
was spreading. He said his reports
showed that the Homestead works
of the Carnegie Company were prac
tically "dead."
Mr. Foster said he had a telegram
from Birmingham, Ala., stating that
4,000 men are out there. This, he
said, was pleasing because the union
had not expected to make as good
a showing there as the telegram in
dicated. •
Orders have gone out, Mr. Foster
further said, to "pull out" the men
in all the plants of the Jones and
Laughlin Company. Not much effort,
he said, had been made to bring
the Jones and Laughlin men out
j Gompers Names
Labor Men For
Industrial Confab
Washington, Sept. 23.—President
Gompers, of the American Federa
tion of Labor, announced the names
of the fifteen representatives of la
bor who are to take part in the in
dustrial conference called by Pres
ident Wilson to meet here October
6. Resides Mr. Gompers they are
I Joseph F. Valentine, president
Moulders' International Union;
I Frank Duffy, president of the Car
| penters' Brotherhood; W. D. Ma
; hon, president of the Amalgamated
Association of Steel Railway Em
ployes; T. A. Rtckert, Jacob Fischer,
Matthew Woll, Frank Morrison,
Daniel J. Tobin, John L. Lewis, Sara
A. Conboy, William J. Johnston,
i Paul Scharrenberg, John Donlin
j and M. F. Tlglie.
on strike up to this time. The union
hoped to be able to close the plant
by to-morrow.
Mr. Foster appeared in the Alle
gheny county court to-day as a de
fendant for alleged violation of an
ordinance at Duquesne. He was ar
rested several weeks ago.
Two More Plants Close
Braddock and Rankin plants of
the American Steel and Wire Com
pany, both of which operated yes
terday at decreased capacity, were
closed to-day for an indefinite period.
These plants employ approximately
10,000 men, including great numbers
of foreign-speaking laborers. It
was due to the walkout of laborers
that the plants were closed.
Immediately after the decision to
close the plants the company Be
gan paying off the men.
Owing to the closing of the plants
the crowds on the street were greatly
augmented in the two towns to-day.
The police and State constabulary
were having considerable difficulty
in keeping the crowds moving. Two
arrested were made by the State
Police.
Continue Operations
Although crippled in all depart
ments, the Allegheny and West Penn
Steel Companies at Brackenridge
were operating.
Union organizers said fewer men
reported for work to-day than yes
terday while the company officials
declared that a greater number of
men appeared. The Allegheny Steel
Company officials said that they ex
pected to start operation of the bar
mill to-day, which was closed yes
terday by the strike.
Officials of the Homestead Steel
Works said that but ten per cent,
of the employes had left the plant
and that they were all foreign boru.
Union organizers declared that the
men were continuing to leave the
plant and joining the ranks of the
| strikers. Several men were arrested
for refusing to obey orders of the
State Police, at the Duquesne Steel
Works, officials stating that the plant
was running in full. Fourteen for
eigners were arrested for loitering
and disorderly conduct.
Eleven Struck by
Bullets in Renewal
* of Farrell Rioting
By Associated Press,
Farrell, Pa., Sept. 23.—More riot
ing occurred to-day in Farrell,
where a man was shot and killed last
night and several other persons In
jured.
Two persons were shot, neither
seriously, and several other persons
were otherwise injured In renewed
rioting when State Police and local
authorities dispersed crowds that
had congregated in Main street. Last
night one man was shot and killed,
a State Trooper was shot and ser
iously wounded and another State
Policeman was injured in the head
with a brick.
This morning's melee did not last
long, the authorities acting with
much vigor and succeeded In scat
tering the crowds.
After the trouble was over several
thousand strikers and their sympa
thizers went across the Ohio State
lino, several miles from Farrell, to
hold a mass meeting. The burgess
of Farrell has forbidden the holding
of meetings in the borough.
Many shots were fired in the new
disturbance to-day. The police say
that at least eleven persons were
struck by bullets.
J. H. Moody, burgess of Farrell,
has taken per onal charge of the
police in the streets of Farrell. He
appealed to Sheriff Gibson at Mercer
to send deputy sheriffs here to assist
the local authorities and the de
tachment of State troopers on dnty.
Additional State police, as a result
of last night's trouble have been or
dered here.
Many cases of individual assaults
are reported by the police. Alvin
Pfelffer, of Farrell, while driving
along the street In an automobile was
suspected of going to one of the steel
plants and was attacked by several
persons with stones and sticks. His
machine was damaged but he was
not badly hurt.
Two other men were shut up in
the old Mercer county brewing plant,
the police said, by strike sympathiz
ers to keep them from going to work
They were found and released by
the police.
During the trouble here last night
two horses of mounted troopers
were shot.
Quiet Nearby
In Sharon and other nearby com
munities all was quiet. All steel
and wire mills in this vicinity are
closed to-day. not a whistle blowing
anywhere. Among the larger plants
closed are the south and north mills
of the Carnegie Steel Company here
and at Sharon; the American Sheet
and Tin Plate Company and the
American Steel and Wire Company
These plants operated part of the
time yesterday.
The shooting here occurred late
last night. Crowds had congregat
ed on Broadway, the main street,
and at the request of the borough
authorities, the State police tried
to disperse them. Part of the street
is being paved and many In the
crowds threw bricks and other mis
siles at the troopers. Shots were
fired and the fire was returned, it is
alleged. When the shooting was
over and the crowd dispersed, it was
found that at least three persons
were shot and many were injured
by flying missiles.
Paul Prach, 34, of Farrell, was
shot in the face and died at the
trooper, was shot in the hand and
Buhl Hospital.
E. Milligan, of Butler, a State
Cyrus Lowe, of Sharon, received
bullet wounds In the hand and leg.
Strikers Are Filling
Streets of Coatesville
By Associated Press,
Coatesville, Pa., Sept. 23.—Twelve
hundred men are on strike at the
Midvale Steel and Ordninee Corpo
ration branch here and five hun
dred more at the plant of the Lukens
Steel Company. Both concerns em
ploy between 6,000 and 6,000 men.
Good order prevails. The strikers,
mostly of unskilled class, are picket
ing and the streets In the vl :lnlty of
the mills are filled with men.
HARRKBURG TELEGRXPH:
GARY AND STRIKE
LEADER TO BE CALLED
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pressed concern over the general
industrial situation.
"This strike seems to be the first
skirmish in industrial warfare," said
Senator Kenyon. "Let us face it
and find out the facts."
Publicity, Senator Kenyon and
other members said, might be help
ful. The senator explained that his
resolution was in the interest of
neither the employers nor employes,
but "the great third party—the pub
lic."
Senator Kenyon announced that
the investigation would be begun
Thursday and that the first witness
would be Chairman Gary, of the
United States Steel Corporation and
John J. Fitapatrick, chairman of the
national committee organizing the
steel workers.
The Kenyon resolution was en
dorsed by Senators Knox, Republi
can, Pennsylvania; Owen, Democrat,
Oklahoma, and Norris, Republican,
Nebraska.
Senator Thomas said he did not
oppose the investigation, but doubt
ed whether it would bring results.
Senator Smith, Democrat, South
Carolina, said he was concernod that
Congress should be called upon to
fix industrial relations, believing it
tended toward Socialism.
Knox Urges Step
Senator Knox said that if reports
that steel workers on strike were
largely foreign born were true, there
should be an investigation by Con
gress to determine the basis of the
government's policy in the future.
Senator Thomas said the refusal
of Judge Gary to receive represen
tatives of the workers was "unjusti
fied and unwise," and that the strike
was "one of the developments that
but American institutions to their
supreme test." He said tha tthe
Senate investigation would require
too much time to be of service.
Senator Kenyon said industry was
in "a rather ticklish" situation and
needed every steadying influence.
If reports that 300,000 men are on
strike are true, he added. Congress
should "not sit idly by and do noth
ing."
The Senate investigation of the
Paint Creek, W. Va., strike several
years ago, he said, had stopped the
disturbances.
"Leaders of the strike and rep
resentatives of the steel property
owners," he said in conclusion, "can
be brought here before the com
mittee and we can find out just what
the matter is. The day is gone by
when either capital or labor has the
right to precipitate such conditions
on the country."
Mahoning Valley Mills
Either Closed or Run
on Limited Scale
Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 23.—The
country-wide steel strike, now enter
ing its second day, finds the mills
of the Mahoning Valley, Ohio's
principal steel center, either com
pletely closed or running on a very
limited scale.
Three large companies. Brier Hill,
Republican Iron and Steel, and
Sharon Steel Hoop closed complete
ly yesterday. They employ about
16,500 men. The Carnegie Steel
Company announced its work greatly
curtailed and said it would close un
less the men return to work. Other
companies were able to continue
operating some of their mills in a
limited capacity.
Yesterday's quietude was inter
rupted last evening when men were
leaving the plant of the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company. Approxi
mately 500 men cangregated at the
main entrance gate, at the plant and
engaged in picketing. This pre
cipitated trougbe and many blows
were struck. The arrival of police
and deputy sheriffs armed with riot
guns had a quieting effect. Later a
few shots were said to have been
fired. No one was seriously injured.
Bethlehem Steel Heads
Have Not Yet Received
Ultimatum From Workers
New York, Sept. 23. Elbert H.
Gary, chairman of the board of di
rectors of the U. S. Steel Corpora
tion, continued to-day his policy of
silence in regard to the steel strike.
Officers of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, the largest independent
in the country asserted that no ulti
matum had been received from its
unionized employes demanding a
conference with the executives.
Nothing could be learned concern
ing the probable attitude of the
company in advance of a demand
for such a meeting.
All the Bethlehem plants are run
ning to capacity.
Charles M. Schwab, president of
the company, will leave this after
noon for Chicago, to attend a dinner
of the American Institute of Mining
Engineers, but it is understood his
visit to that city has nothing to do
with the labor situation.
Private advices received here by
men connected with the steel in
dustry declared that 21,000 more
men were at work to-day in the
Pittsburgh district than yesterday.
Wilson Feels He Has Done
All Possible to End Strike;
Will Let It Work Sell Out
On Hoard President Wilson's Spe
cial Train, Sept. 23.—President Wil
son was without official advices re
garding the strike of steel workers
and It was indicated that for the
present he did not propose to inter
fere directly.
He was represented as feeling that
he had done everything possible to
prevent the strike, and that the best
that could be accomplished now was
to maintain order while the situ
ation worked Itself out.
Much interest was expressed by
White House officials, however, in
the progress of events as reported in
the newspapers.
Lebanon Mills Do
Not Feel the Strike
By Associated press.
Lebanon, Pa , Sept. 23. The
strike in the steel industry was not
felt in Lebanon as puddlers and
rolling mill employes have been out
since April for increased wages.
Threats were made to call out fac
tory employes in all departments by
Thursday unless demands for in
creases are met by the Bethlehem
Steel Company, but officials stated
the men would remain at work.
MANY TRAINMEN OCT
Youngs town, Ohio, Sept 23.—Rail
road men who conferred with Presi
dent W. G. Lee of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen in Cleveland
yesterday, were advised that where
they have agreements with the steel
companies they should continue on
duty, but that where no agreement
is in effect the majority should
:rule. Most of the trainmen, union
officials say, already are out
Independent Mills Only
Are Operating m Chicago;
District Engineers May Go
By .Issocialed Frjss.
Chicago, Sept. 23.—Dawn on the
second day of the nation-wide strike
in the steel industry found nearly
all the plants in the Chicago dis
trict either closed down or working
with a greatly reduced force.
bor union officials predicted that
every plant in the district would be
closed within a few days
Labor leaders asserted to-day
that more than 75 per cent, of the
workens in the district have left
their work, while company officials
said the number who failed to re
port at the mills was not more than
20 per cent, of the total of nearly
90,000 men employed in the district.
In this district the strike has de
veloped no violence. At Gary, Ind.,
guards escorted from the works men
who had continued their employ
ment and thousands of strikers
about the gates did not menace
them. Some damage was reported
there as resulting , rom failure to
draw liquid steel from furnaces.
A sympathetic strike of the mem
bers of the international union of
steam and operating engineers in
the Chicago district was regarded
as a possible addition to the ranks
of the steel mill workers who walk
ed out. Engineers at Gary, who left
their work yesterday, reiterated
statements that they would remain
out. On the other hand H. M. Co
merford, secretary of that union,
declared "even if this union has a
personal grievance it would not
strikei in the face of a repuest mada
by the President of the United
States that no action be taken until
after he had opportunity to confer
with the various parties to the con
troversy on October 6."
Mr. Comerford reviewed the atti
tude of the engineers' locals in vari
ous steel zones. At Waukegan, Ills.,
and Youngstown, and Stubenville,
Ohio, he said, the men are willing
to work but the mills have been
closed by the companies. At Gary,
Ind., and Joliet, Illinois, certain
radicals have ignored the interna
tional officers' directions to remain
at work, he said, and cannot be con
trolled.
Throughout the entire Pittsburgh
and Pueblo, Colo., district, Mr. Co.
merford added, the engineers have
remained at work.
Two Troopers Hurt
and Four Horses Shot,
Capt. Lumb Announces
Captain George F. Lumb, acting
Superintendent of the State Police,
stated to-day that corrected reports
showed that Corporal Raymond
Laughlln had suffered a fracture of
the skull and that Private Frank
Mtlligan had been shot in the eye
at Farrell. Laughlin comes from
Centralia and Milligan from Avoca.
Both are members of D troop, But
ler. Milligan will lose his eye, but
Laughlin is probably not seriously
hurt. Four State Police horses were
shot in the melee.
Calls on Fraternal
Order of Police to Stick
Pittsburgh, Sept. 23. William
J. Milten, grand president of the
Fraternal Order of Police, with
headquarters in this city, to-day
sent letters to all lodges of the or
der calling upon the members to
use every means within their power
"to. uphold and enforce the laws of
the nation, State and municipality
at this time of unrest in our coun
try," as they are obligated by their
oath of office.
Mr. Milton asks that the officers
enforce the laws "impartially under
all circumstances."
The Fraternal Order of Police has
lodges in 2 6 cities. It is an inde
pendent union, not affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
Gary Gets Morgan's
Approval of His
Stand on Strike
Now York, Sept. 23.— J. P. Mor
gan. in a cablegram from London
to Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman
of the United States Steel Corpora
tion, heartily approves of his open
shop stand and urges the steel cor
poration to be firm in its attitude.
The cablegram is as follows:
"Heartiest congratulations on
your stand for the open shop, with
which I am, as you know, abso
lutely in accord. I believe American
principles of liberty are involved
and must win out if we all stand
firm."
SCHUYLKILL VALLEY QUIET
Reading, Pa., Sept. 23. Com
plete survey to-day in this end of
the Schuylkill Valley, with many
steel plants, rolling and other mills,
shows a complete absence of labor
disturbances or strikes related to the
general strike called in the Pitts
burgh and Chicago districts. All
plants are in operation, some of them
on double turn. Prospects are that
the middle western shut downs
will divert orders to plants in this
district.
SWEAR IN DEPUTIES
Steubenvillo, 0., Sept. 23. Five
hundred deputies were sworn in to
day to maintain order at the Weir
ton, W. Va., plant of the Weirton
Steel Company across the river from
here, yhich is the only plant of the
Steubenville district operating. No
ptrangers are now allowed to enter
the town, which is company prop
erty. Strike leaders at local head
quarters stated to-day that railroad
men operating cars in the Weirton
yards withdrew this morning.
SWITCHMEN OUT
Ruffalu, N. Y„ Sept. 23. Dis
turbances which began in the vicin
ity of the Lackawanna Steel Com
pany's plant last night were con
tinued this morning. A master me
chanic was set upon by a crowd and
severely beaten. A riot call brought
out the police and two men were
arrested charged with rioting.
Switchmen on the South Buffalo
railway to-day quit work when or
dered to move cars into the Lacka
wanna Steel Company's yards.
CLAIMS DISPUTED
Cleveland, Sept. 28. Claims of
union officials that 25.000 men were
Idle here to-day in the strike of
steel mill workers, an increase of
five thousand over their estimates
of yesterday, were disputed by steel
mill officials, who deny that the
walkout is as complete as.union of
ficials claim and contend that ac
tual strikers do not number more
than 40 per cent of the union
figures.
OPERATE WITH SMALL FORCE
Gary, Ind., Sept. 23.—Several de
partments of the United Statos Steel
Corporation were being operated to
day with small fcures. Union repre
sentatives declared that 95 per
cent, of the men employed by the
corporation are out Company of
i flctals decline to make any state-
STRIKERS QUIET
AT WAYNESBORO
Work May Be Besumctl in
Plants in Factory Town
Tomorrow
Waynesboro, Pa., Sept. 23.—The
strike situation is quiet here to-day.
Warned by their leaders to respect
the deputies sworn in by Sheriff Enos
H. Horst, the strikers have re
frained from violence. It was said
to-day that work may be resumed
in the closed plants to-morrow, al
though this notice was not official.
Business mon of Waynesboro,
keenly alive to the seriousness of the
situation, prevailed upon the manu
facturers to confer with them on
the situation in the hope that the
trouble might end and work go
ahead as before at the borough's
industrial plants..
The firmness which the
Franklin county authorities took hold
of the situation has had much to do
with quieting the situation. All day
yesterday the Sheriff's deputies were
on duty on the streets, but they
found no infraction of law.
Constable Walter Klipp, Cham
bersburg, yesterday, was in Way
nesboro serving warrants on a num
ber of men who were implicated in
the trouble at the local plants the
15th and 19th of this month.
Eighty-six warrants were served
in all. Sixty-five of these were for
the trouble on the 10th, while the
other 21 warrants were for of
fenses committed on the 19th. The
charges are assault and battery and
riot.
The Landis Machine Company,
following the labor disturbance here,
has secured an option on ten acres
of land in Hagerstown, for a contem
plated new plant. It also is consid
ering a location in Lancaster. A
committee composed of President J.
J. Oiler and Directors W. L. Miniclc
and J. G. Moornaw, went to that
city yesterday to look over a site
and proposition offered by that city.
It is not believed a definite move in
either direction will be made if the
effort now in progress by leading cit
izens to syttle the local strike is
successful.
Three of New Castle
Injured Are Likely
to Die, Following Riot
3y Associated Press,
Now Castle, Pa., Sept. '23.—With
State police, 150 deputy sheriffs
and scores of policemen pa
trolling the streets about the steel
plants here, the situation following
serious riots last night was slightly
improved early to-day. Nine per
sons, two women and seven men,
shot last night in addition to the
stabbing of one policeman and in
juring of another with a club, in an
attack on the plant of the Carnegie
Steel Company. Three of the in
jured likely will die, it is said.
Rioting assumed serious propor
tions late yesterday when rioters
stoned workmen in their way to
the mills. Five workmen were
caught against a stone wall and
were being stoned by a mob when
guards set out to rescue them. A
pitched battle took place before the
guards rescued the injured men.
Two policemen were injured when
they attempted to disperse a crowd
which refused to allow workers to
enter the Shenango works of the
American Sheet Tin Plate Company.
The riots followed the appearance
of several hundred men said to be
from Youngstown, Ohio.
Thirty persons were arrested last
night charged with rioting and
carrying concealed weapons. With
the arrival of a score of State con
stabulary, the strike zone will be
cleared up here to-day, it is believ
ed. Mills are being operated at
about 5 per cent, capacity, accord
ing to plant officials.
Cambria Steel Is
Paying Off Men
Johnstown, Pa., Sept. 23. An
nouncing a general suspension of
work, officials of the Cambria Steel
Company to-day began paying off
their employes, automatically cutting
off the men from connection with
the company. The plant was closed
yesterday by the strike.
The Lorain Steel Company an
nounced that it is operating in full
but with a force estimated at 85 per
cent, of normal.
There has been no disorder.
Farm Bureau Imparts
Information to Tillers of
Acres in Cumberland
Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 23.—Two Im
portant field meetings were held to
day by the Cumberland County Farm
Bureau. Ono was at the Brgnds
ville Milk Station and the other at
the farm of John L. Basehore, in
the Lower End. At the first meet
ing there was a demonstration of
the hot-water method of the con
trol of loose smut in wheat. At the
other information was given on the
benefits of spraying potatoes and the
uses of various kinds and amounts
iof fertilizer. Potatoes were dug up
and compared. Dr. E. L. Nixon, of
State College, and P. L. Edinger, the
county agent was in charge.
Mrs. M. H. Garland Hostess
For Sunday School Class
F.nola, Pa., Sept. 23. —Mrs. M. H.
Garland entertained her Sunday
School class of Evangelical Lu
theran Church at her home on the
State read lost evening. Those pres
ent Included Mrs. Ross Morris, Mrs.
Shepley, Mrs. M. H. Garland, Mrs.
Berwick, Mrs. Coldren, Mrs. Harry
Smith, Mrs. L. B. McCaleb, Mrs.
John Roth, Mrs. Jack Dunfee, Mrs.
Benjamin J. Passmore, Mrs. Wend
ler, Mrs. C. W. Miller, Mrs. Cocklln,
Amelia Roth. Jean Dunfee, Billy
McCaleb, Marion Morris, Mary Eliza
beth Sheffley, Mrs. H. F. Beisel,
Mrs. Tripner, Winifred Tripner, Cur
tis Tripner and Katharine Famous.
How Fat Folks
May Become Thin
If you are suddenly becoming
stout, or if you have been putting
on flesh for years, the cause is gen
erally the same—lack of oxygen car
rying power of the blood. This trou
ble occurs mostly in men artd women
over thirty, but it may be easily
treated and without any of the pri
vations most fat people Imagine nec
essary to reduce their weight. Sim
ply go to your druggist and get a
box of Phynola. Take five grains
after each meal and at bedtime. Won
derful results should be quickly ac
complished by this simple treatment.
Be sure however you get the genu
ine Phynola. It la put up in orig
inal sealed packages, is pleasant to
take and gives prompt results. Gor
ges the Druggist, Keller's Drug Store,
J. Nelson Clark or any drug atorai
SEPTEMBER 23,1919.
THREE JUDGES
SIT IN COURT
Minor Cases Disposed of at
Second Day of Criminal
Court
Three sessions of criminal court
were held this morning. President
Judge George Kunkcl hearing cases
in Courtroom No. 1, Judge C. V.
Henry, of Lebanon, specially presid
ing Courtroom No. 2, and Judge S.
J. M. McCarrell disposing of three
cuses in his rooms.
John M. Graybill, charged with
aggravated assault and battery, was
on trial this morning before Judge
Kunkel. Graybill, it is alleged
struck Samuel N. Farmer when the
; latter came from a house near Cal
der and Sixth streets, where he had
been calling on a young woman. Ac
cording to the evidence the two men
got into a dispute and Graybill final
ly attacked Farmer he claimed. A 1
verdict was expected this afternoon.
Daniel J. Morgan, charged with
false advertising, was on trial be
fore Judge Henry. It was alleged
that ho advertised that he furnish
ed certain storage battery service
but did not do so. A verdict may be
returned later to-day.
Other cases disposed of were:
Harry Griffey, larceny and carrying
concealed deadly weapons, four
months; Mike Kozar, fraud against
boardinghousc keeper, sentence sus-,
pended; Chester Davenport, larceny
of watch and chain from Patrick J.
Sullivan, convicted; George D Macey,
two charges, false pretence, 30 days;
George W. Graham, false pretence,
$lO fine and six months; Graham
pleading guilty to a charge of pur
suading a woman to furnish a $2OO
cash bond upon the condition that
she should become an agent for an
underclothing firm.
Christian Bones, colored, was giv
en from one year to six months in
the penitentiary on a charge of
larceny, preferred by a Mtddletown
store proprietor.
BUILDING PERMITS
Building permits were issued to
day for the erection of a three
story brick warehouse, two-tory
brick garage and a two-story brick
building for offices.
John Hare, contractor for H. D.
Douglass,/Will build a two-story of
fice building at the rear of 1800
Market street, at a cost of $2,000;
H. W. Black, contractor for Joshua
T. King, will construct a two-story
brick garage at 1419-21 James
ftreet, to cost $4,000; a contractor
for B. A. Cartwright will build a
three-story brick warehouse at
305-7 Calder street at a cost of $3,-'
500.
Other permits were issued to C.
C. Glase, W. H. Burkey, contractor,
one-story concrete garage, rear of
2469 Reel street, $300; Edward Ew
ing, H. W. Black, contractor, altera
tions, 1208 North Second, $2OO.
PARADE COMMITTEE TO MEET
The parade committee of the Wel
come Home celebration will hold its
final meeting to-night when details
of the procession and escort will be
gone over with Chief Marshal George
Rhoads.
Magßhu
TABLETS
Stop Stomach Trouble
Guaranteed to relieve acid stomach,
nervous indigestion. constipation,
stomach pains.
Sold by Croll Keller, the druggist,
and the Kennedy Drug Co., and all
other druggists or send $l.OO to Mag
Rhu Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. and a box
will be sent postpaid.
BELL 125 DAY AND DIAL 4016
NIGHT SCHOOL
OPEN NOW ENTER ANY TIME
Two Separate Night Schools: The One on Monday, Wednesday,
Friday—The Other Tuesday, Thursday Nights
BECKLEY'S BUSINESS COLLEGE
(Opposite Senate Hotel)
121 MARKET STREET CHARLES R. BECKLEY, Principal
SONORA
First Phbnograph
installed in an
Aeroplane
You have probably read in the newspapers of the
airplane cross-country flight of the All-American
Pathfinders, which will cover 171 cities, including
Harrisburg.
A SONORA Portable Phonograph has been in
stalled on one of these planes, the Roosevelt, which
gives SONORA the distinction of being the first
phonograph to be heard by wireless from airplane to
The fact that the SONORA S|
was chosen for such a difficult HL
feat proves that it must be con
structed to produce an exception- |nß
Come in and hear one of these -
machines demonstrated at our f
YOHN BROS.
13 N. 4th St.
Across From Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart.
BURGLARS STEAL >
CASH AND BONDS
Get Loot Amounting to $5,500
From Safe in Lancaster
Department Store
Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 23.— Thieves
got' $3,500 in cash and $1,500 in
Liberty Bonds after they had blown
open the safe in the office of the
department store of Leinbach & Co.,
in North Queen street, this city.
Goods of all description, including
much silk wearing apparel valued
ut more than $5OO, also wore taken.
How the burglars gained entrance
to the store is not known by the
police. Every window and door was
securely locked at closing time, and
in the morning, when two workmen
of the store came to sweep the floors
everything seemed intact. When
they reached the third floor rear,
where the office is located, the dis
covery made that the safe had
been blown open. Several clues are
being run down by the police de
partment. It is their belief that the
work was thoroughly planned in ad
vance and that out-of-town robbers
are the guilty parties.
Soldier Reported Dead
Expects to Be Home Soon
Columbia, Pa., Sept. 23. Mrs.
Mary Saylor, of this place, whose
son, Jay E. Saylor, of Company L,
11th Infantry, was reported dead,
has received a letter from the young
soldier saying that he had arrived
at Camp Merritt, and expected to be
home soon.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
David C. Albright, Halifax, and
Sarah J. Keefer, Halifax township.
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Kept
1 Airtight
Golden Roast
Blend Coffee
The delicious flavor and aroma
of Golden Roast is too precious
| to permit of its being dispensed
loose. So it's sealed up in pound
airtight packages Just after It has
been roasted, and in there it stays
until it is delivered to you.
We pride ourselves on the
quality of Golden Roast. And you
i will agree with us that our pride
is justified.
Order a pound from your gro
cer today. Serve it. It will tell
the story better than anything
| else.
I
R. H. Lyon
Coffee Purveyor to the Pcnn-
Harrls
lIARRISBURG, PA.
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