Show CRUCIAL MOME MOMENT I IA A I Employers Look for Break in Ranks Today Union Men l Pre Predict Huge Accession Accession sion From Front Plant By ny As s Ires TIT ITU ITIl both sides determined to W v brcik brck the app apparent deadlock in inthe inthe inthe the steel which ch developed at the close of t the e first week attention to today today today to- to day is Io focused on un strat l strategic ie points tho i li lii ll l q arti ar- ar I I ti l l y i in ia ll c i se sector e t tot where a walkout of approximately l of or the time Bethlehem Steel CO company lP has lans been ordered for forI t this is I Both Doth capital and nd labor utilized the th I Sa Sabbath bath in laying pla plans plaits ls for tho the lSe second week which is expected by man many I leaders to produce a greater reater test of ot strength than tItan the first Sides ShIes Du Busy of ot labor ar are arc T their forces Or r a dc determined effort mills and to Increase to reopen ma many 11 tho time output of ot those which Weathered the tho initial walkout Directors of at tho the strike on the tl other hand are aro making every effort to 10 rally more workers to their colors hud and to effect ct a virtual paralysis of ot the tho in In- In j Yc Yesterday passed quietly in the thc steel centers In Allegheny county count mass mass meetings called by union or organizers were held without disorder under su supervision supervision sU- sU of the sheriff Although an nn atmosphere of ot expectancy expectancy tancy was wag seen in districts at affected by by- bythe the strike it brought no material development lenders on both sides APparently apparently ap AP- AP contenting themselves with marking time In preparation for today's to to- days daj's offensive arid and e In En Suburb Pittsburgh h Sept 28 One S. One man was shot and nd slightly wounded and three others arrested when a a. crowd of young oun nun liun arc are alleged to havo have attacked a deputy sheriff In mill dl district toda today None Nolte of oi the men amen Concerned concerned con Con- cern d wai a strike the police polke sa say Notices s were posted to ted throughout Homestead today by the Carnegie Carnegie- Steel Ste company compan offering 1000 reward for the tho I arrest and conviction of or time the person or persons who yesterday Y shot Peter Luke a cm loyal 1 worker I Gompers Says Steel Strikers Will Win Tin New ew York Sept 28 VIctory S. Victory for the tho striking steel workers was predicted tonight 11 by Samuel Gompers president i of the American federation of oC Labor On the tIme eve e of oC his departure for tor I Washington a he ho asserted that the strike In all nil probability will b be discussed at President Wilsons Wilson's Industrial l conference conference con con- ference to begin In lit Washington on 00 October 6 G. Important Des Dc Developments lie Ho contended that public opinion leans toward the tile strikers In iii their fight for tor collective r bl bargaining and said that Important developments dc In the steel situation aro are looked for in itt Washington this week Tho The lowering of or labor standards would precipitate a calam calam- ity he ho added The Tho labor chieftain decried the time at at- taken by Judge e Gary Gan of ot the time board of directors of or tho the United States Steel corporation and characterized character character- the time charges that tho thu strike was Inspired by radicalism and as all Asserting that ho had hind tIme the highest personal re regard for tor Judge Gary Gan he lie said the time has hlIs passed u d when a corporation cor cor- can regard it Its aa as wards Dr fen da Strike Leaders I Defending John Fitzpatrick o chairman chair chair- man of or the tho strikers strikers' national committee and William X 7 1 Foster I secretary of time the steel ech workers workers' union from charges charitoS of h ho h U J You have hac not heard rd of them making revolutionary rc speeches in this strike Judge Garys Gary's refusal to meet tho two men amen on tho time ground that they did I Continued on oil Iago o 20 STEEL STRIKE BA BATTLE BAffLE TIlE TEST TODAY Continued from Paso Page 1 1 not represent a majority of ot the em em- on strike was c censured by Mr Ir Gompers who said that JUdge Gary would woud have o been In a better position to know now if it and Foster represented rep rep- resented the Iho men had he ho conferred with them thorn It lIt is unthinkable that this strike will bo be lost said Mr r. r Gompers It is bound to win because the men are aro Inthe Inthe in inthe the right They arc are striking for better living ll conditions Throughout tho tIle world tho the qt the worker is awakening to oi his right to enjoy enJo fair tall play He realizes that it lt t Is Js this thi for which he made sacrifices es I during during- the dark clark days of or the war U n Any lowering of labor standards s or wages wages' now would be bo a calamity It would bring about a crisis With lov lower r wa wages es consumption would decrease and an with less consumption there woul would necessarily have havo to be curtailment of ot production 1 ne ersch recognition of or the principle principle prin prin- ciple of or fair pIll play on tho the part of employers em em- will increase our prosperity In support of the contention that the was strike was fomented b by agitators It has pointed out that William Z Foster Fos Fos- I ter secretary of tho the national committee com corn for organizing iron and steel steelworkers steelworkers' steelworkers steelworkers' I workers' workers once advocated syndicalism and that John Fitzpatrick chairman of I the committee was an nn extremist |