Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 2 | Foster Declares Steel Strike is not Lost Cause

FOSTER DECLARES STEEL STRIKE IS NOT LOST CAUSE PITTSBURG, Nov. 1. W. Z. Foster, secretary of the national steel strike committer, com-mitter, told the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. In session here today, that the "steel strike is not lost, the steel mills throughout the country are tied up, and the bottom has fallen out of -steel production." produc-tion." It was the outstanding feature of the steel strike situation in the Pittsburg district dis-trict today, for union leaders generally attended the convention and said there was no change in the situation. Steel companies met Foster's statement with the assertion that mill operations had improved during the week, and more steel had been made than at any time since the strike was declared. Sir. Foster, In appealing to the convention conven-tion for funds for the Strikers, said more than 300,000 men were out, and that the families of striking steel workers were facing starvation and crying for bread. He reviewed the work of the strike committee's com-mittee's commissaries, and said "thousands "thou-sands of dollars" is needed to carry them on. President James E. Maurer. who opened the convention, said as president he was willing to go through on any program. "We must do something and must bo active."