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Show profit-sharing system in our plant and the men who remained loyal will continue con-tinue to receive their share of the profits, uven though the plant is ciosed." The union leaders of the district met in Chicago to(iay and after their reports re-ports had been tabulated the claim of 75,000 strikers, as against vesterdav's figures fig-ures of 67,500, was given out. J. II. De-Young, De-Young, who presided, said that the national na-tional strike committee, of which John Fitzpa trick is chairman, would espouse the cause of the engineers who quit th.nr posts at Gary despite orders to the contrary con-trary from the International T'nion of Steam and Operating Engineers. The men face possible forfeiture of their union charter, II. M. Comer ford, international secretary of the engineers, exhibited a telegram from Milton Snelllngs, president of the organization, condemning the strike. Mr. Comeford blamed "an Incorrigible In-corrigible radical element at Gary" for the happenings there and criticised the actions of the committee which called the big strike over recommendations to the contrary from President Wilson and Samuel Gompers. Conservatives Disapprove. "The "strike is not approved generally by the conservative element in the labor movement," he said. "It could not be with such radical leadership." The first court action of the strike came la Led today, when the I'ollak Steel company, com-pany, manufacturing steel axles in Chicago, Chi-cago, asked for an injunction against picketing its plant, directing the action against John Fitznatrick and William Z. Foster of the national strike committee, the South Chicago Union council and four pickets. The application will be heard tomorrow. The company set forth that its employees were willing to work, but that several had comolained that tney had been threatened with bodily harm because of their refusal to strike. MORE MILLS ARE SHUT DOWN IN CHICAGO DISTRICT CHICAGO. Sept. 23. Closing of addi-rlt'iial addi-rlt'iial stepl plants in South Chicago and Indiana Harbor and ansence of apprecia- b'.y increaaod activity in mills wliich ' were attemntin? to -oporate with reduced , forces in Oary marked the second day ot the steel strike in the Chicago district. dis-trict. ' ; The uuion leaders claimed pains of ap-j ap-j .proximately 10.000 in the number of ' : e'.rikcrs. Officials of the United States Steel corporation plants maintained the i reticence which thoy have exhibited since the first strike murmurs were heard and ' operators of independent plants settled down to a policy of watchful waiting. Anion.? the rank and file of the strikers the holiday aspects of the walkout were accentuated. The moving picture houses and other recreation enterprises in the sreel towns are booming', and hastily organized or-ganized dances were advertised by mushroom mush-room social clubs. ' No sins of disorder were in evidence at any of the strike centers. On the contrary, con-trary, union pickets joked with the po-; po-; licmen who kept them moving and even ex. hanped badinage wfth company guards routed about the entrances of the plants. Gary MHls Operate. Today only the Gary mills of the United Sr.! tes S' eel corporation, some smaller . r si ablisi.ments in Uast Chicago and five independent plants in Hammond tried to opra te. At South Chicago a few men patrolled the silent mills as fire guards and at Indiana Ha rbor the banked fires i -Kmoj.lt-red and thin wisps of smoke curled ' . lazily from the tall slacks. .1. W. Lees, general superintendent of the Inland Steel company at Indian Har- '; ":or, explained that he ordered a shut- ( i down rather than take the responsibility , lor an industrial warfare. "We could have continued to operate," he said, "but we were caught tn the troubles of the United States Steel cor-portation cor-portation and evidently must halt while eah side thinks tilings over. "Whether the employer sees it or not, the time has come to share profits with the men. We have had a bonus and |