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Show ONE SHOT IN STEEL PLANT STRIKE RIOT Three Others Wounded As Workers Force Through Picket Lines 1 PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4 U.R) -One man was shot and three others beaten as more steel workers joined miners on strike in western Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. The four men, none believed be-lieved critically wounded,, were victims of a clash at Am-bridge, Am-bridge, Pa., when workers attempted attempt-ed to break through a picket line and enter the Spang-Chalfant Seamless Tube company. Who fired the shot which wounded wound-ed Luke Starchenko, 37, a picket, was not determined. Witnesses said the firing came from the direction di-rection of the plant, where company com-pany police and deputy sheriffs were on guard. Alvin Curry. 31; Harry Kuntz, 32, and Ellwood Rowley, 20, were beaten during the scuffle between about 300 pickets and a score of workmen. Curry and Starchenko were taken to a hospital, but the other two were treated in the plant. About 20 other persons suffered minor hurts. Four other Ambridge Steel plants were closed today and heavily heav-ily picketed, while pickets maintained main-tained their vigil at the Carnegio Steel company's steel and by-products plant at Clairtorr. They were joined again today by hundreds of striking miners from Fayette county, coun-ty, who went into the city in small groups. |