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Show 1 AWK MARK W OP OTIRI OTICT fflNSYLVANIA STATE POL1CEBREAK UP WORKMEN'S MEETING GSTRERI1G 15 CHARGED il TROOPERS j Number Injured, Many Arrests Made in Collision Colli-sion Near Pittsburg; Unionists Make Protest. Preparations Complete for Inauguration of Great Struggle Today; Both Sides Confident. PITTSBURG, Sept. til. Clashes bj t-eon Pennsylvania mate polioe ar.C Oiotvuti bcttt on holding labor meelhi in t!-3 Pittsburg district todr.;.- ushered in the strike in the iron and steel in-dustry. in-dustry. The most serious disturbance j occurred at Xorth Clairton, 20 miles from Pittsburg, iate in the afternoon., where the state troopers charged a crowd of union Tren holding a mat; meeting and broke it up. Resistance v.-as offered and it is eharjreii. by union leaders that the mounted policemen used their.elr.bs vigorously and injured a number of the crowd. About a score of men were arrested. The meeting was broken up at the request of local authorities. au-thorities. According to eye-witnesses the meeting meet-ing was proceeding quietly when tho state police broke it up. The crowd scattered and some ran up a railroad embankment and threw stones and j other missiles at the troopers. Durtr.g i the melee, several in the crowd v.ero i struck on the head by pedicenttn, il tu;j i said. The crowd soon scattered. No ore was reported seriously injured. It is alleged that several shjts were firec by someono in the crowd. WILL .MAKE PROTEST TO STATE AUTHORITIES. William Z. Foster, secretary of tho national committee for organizing iron and steel workers, tonight said that a vigorous protest would be lodged with the state government against what he termed a "murderous attack upon law-abiding law-abiding people. ' Some of the blast furnaces of the Carnegie Steel company are located at Clairlon. There was a slight disturbance at McKeesport, where union organizers attempted to hold a mass meeting in defiance of the proclamation of lunor George I.ysle, forbidding public gatherings. gath-erings. More than 2000 steel workers and sympathisers were gathered near the southern limits of the city when a j squad of "McKeesport police dispersed jthem, driving the crowd into Glassport, an adjoining borough. When the crowd again began to a-sembie a-sembie in Glassport the local police a peared and ordered the mee'.ing dispersed. dis-persed. The crowd refused to move a:;d a detachment of mounted state police po-lice appeared and v. ith drawn cluba broke up the meeting. So one was iu- jured. Two ai'ens were arrested, j After dispersing .the Glassport meet I ing the state police returned to Me-j Me-j Kee-sport and patrolled the streets. : Crowds were di.-:ivrsed without tiij'-fieuliy.. tiij'-fieuliy.. All preparations had been completed by Mayor Lysle tonight for putting down disorders in McKeesport. All day long men were being sworn in as 1 special officers. Members of tho Mc Kee sport chamber of commerce were sworn in as special police. j GREAT PLANTS ARE UNDER HEAVY GUARD. A U plants in t ho McKeesport ii It: trlcl arc u:ider heavy tonipht. .S.-areh- li;rhlii have '.-:. n : rtaMed a 'id command a.' e;iva::ccs to the eoupa.'! 'y proper!; . Quiet rtfig-iieJ too ay ai Pu Quene, Tl.v.ues-vfcad and oast Du wuesne. There v. no 1 1 e -ru n made by ;,ic steel u-.ea to ho'.d meetlr-s. Tve steel p!:.r.:t; a: Io,.-.(-s:c:;d ard Du Que.mo arts prepared o protect their r.rpe"i Snei-in. barbed -A ire fences PtL-.-e ef:ii c-'H.l run ted aboijr exposed prot'Criy, ar.d r.ti'.n,p.!:(,,'urj have been in-i-'.tall-'d. Deputy .-lieriffs are patrolling tile conipany properties. Although the c ; '. i 1 of t i ie ur.icns made f Continued on P?ge Column 3.) ! were posted with cards calling upon the i iron und steel workers to strike. A small ' detachment of state police arrived at ; Braekenridpo for duty. Orders were ; Kiven stool workers by the union officials i in chnrKC of the Brack enridse district to ; avoid violence of any kind. Union organ-i organ-i izcrs .said pickets would be thrown aoout the mills ihere tomorrow. mm QURGED BY ARMED TROOPERS j (Continued From Page One.) 'the strike effective toniorruw morning, reports showed that steel companies in the rittsburg: dtstrirt. at leaKt. have already al-ready f-!t the efftvt of tlio sununons. Tlte fckclftnti Sunday clay hlmts In many pliint.s wore not as tvniipict'' an imdt-r normal ;ondiUon-. and miinii I :ii!-ih said that a' larpp jnniilt'-r ni men liad Ut'ciued not to report t'jn:ghi. prp:pared tor long and bitter tight. Sunday w.is a day of expectancy in virtually vir-tually all iliij ir-m and btf'.'l mill coiti-m'jiiitics coiti-m'jiiitics in the dusi n t. Active unionists union-ists were hu.y caiuasMiit: nu-n in their CornmutiitUs to an t 1 ;t of the ex tent of the v.a'.Kmit. and in the afternoon after-noon nia.s nice I iA w oi u held In ):uiny places, in la.st -f fort.1 to j)criiua'Je men to join the .strike. National :Uyh of lnhor hiiIohm involved in-volved have lone prepared for the strike, , In the event t hey ra n not maku ;i h ri -tlnient. They Kay they are prepared for a. hitler battle and Would not hae koii-into koii-into it If they wero not mho 1 tiey cuuld sustain t he Minrl?. 'on f id Mire h.u' been eprefed that money to tmanco tli .strlko will not ho lacking. I' was said a meeting of the national unionn will be held fwn to romplelo plans lot tho tU-port tU-port of the strike.. l,nbor leaders wrp nr-'ker today If they knew of any efforis bt int mwle tu brtnK about a KiispenMon r the atiiko. Thtry said thev did not. 1'p t') the laFt, minute there wan n faint hope held out that I'r'e-idenf Wilson ndnht find a way out. in;i noildntr lias come from htm to t h- union Jt ad.-rs. National he;, rh 1 1 in rt ith of th" frleol workers wero drs.-rt.fl todav. All nr-ani.-rs were out m the In Ida holding meeting. MEN WARNED TO OBSERVE GOOD ORDER. W'illlnm I'fM-i r, ku etwr -t rrMirT of the linlinnul inminltU-e, sixikn lii halls ;it Kankln fuid liiadflo-k. H- w.t rnei I I ho mm to keep away from tin; mllht uhd hcI orderly. At. the h'nd'iurn-teiH of the A nuil -t.'.'i mat r-d A s.o-la l ion nf lion, Si ei-1 mid Tin U'ork'-r-i, the lru:.'..t 1 1 id I v id mi 1 union lit tlip conttht, N, . Tiuhe. Ihe t-resnlen t . m Id ino'-h of hi:-' 1 1 tie- has breil tu k 'li ii In k iep ii v ito-n j i f ni k In pi a n I m where the Anuih-'.wmited si.allon h:r; i K l' ' 1 11"!) t H. I I IK I ti:d 1-Hr I loll. 'I i y, for tho men to n-nm I u n I. v. oik. but not to perforin th" dulh1 of ni':n in oMifr liin'.'i v ho K'i out on nt r ik'f. No I ti foi nvi I Ion iniiip from the corporation corpora-tion Hld- oi1 the oont.st todnv. (ifthiaH of f-ul nldldl I'-m ami he!' jieii'!--nt r uie ei iiM diirliu; the pa.d w.dt drrl:n'd th.-v would opefate their I-Ihii'm If they :tn, and lhv have tninl" nil pre pn ra t Ion h lo do mo and IproiCft. thrlr loal workers und prop.Tty. ( Jim l dw wf-re on duty at ti II I lie ft'-el mllU In tliis dltfh-l. Tim tdty and bor- oil a nt horlt l''S t !iroiiK mom I. Alletthrn y i eon nf y ni" In' pf "!':i i r rl for n n y emer-I emer-I kcik V. ! "nion h-ndei'M. in I Iwi r i'lrculars !hhi1 ot In rwlii, have ciititlonid their men I HtmhiHt ioli'in e. says noses will 1!e Counted this hjorning. There v, ah no n 1 1 nipt in.idc t o-1n y to p,(.itlii Hi" ntiinl-er of men ho will ohev the Mirlk" or'l'-r. "oh-m will he eoiinl'd tomorrow." Hii Id Ki'cteinrv k'ostrr. ";tud . o v.'lll k tiow pi " 1 1 y W'd I hy Tuo?- da v ho-.v rif"'Mivolv wo have thd up the nte.d phmtM." I ' nion lend --r: ? U I rule t he fd uf em"tlt h f)f enmpfiny oflii'hiln that mil tnor than l.'i p"r ("nt of th" fteid worker.i ure or-Kiuii'd. or-Kiuii'd. The lMidi'tfl also rdnlm that fH p"r eMit of the fdcel woikcr.H In the union voted ftr Ihe Mlrlke. 'orponi i ion ofiitiiilM puld tuuth n'ten-tlon n'ten-tlon to the liorioni phml .f Cm inerh-aii Hl"" find W'll (onipnnv. The en i plo of th" plant. roiMi.ii ny ' ofll. ;ile mm, will 1'. mnln loval. I'nlon h :i-l"i n li;t ve r-oti- eenttnt"d on thhi plant und ;r it th"V will fuipihi" th" mI""I eoii i. ,i'n i ion ofll-i-htl.i tomorrow juofiilnr. The iieliou of horoujh 1 1 1 1 1 1 mi i' II h e hi hr";ikln up nuiF'M-itKT.MmiM nuiF'M-itKT.MmiM oda M,n Ii.Ikmi on I In- mi Hiorllv of a pio. hiMi.Hlon t hh d to dux- bv u'liihnii s, i laddoi u. MinM'irr "f A ' iMiinlv. v.hiiii iiehnh-.s th" rlt v of I 'It I Mliln k 'I a i cut u m, j ii to I.'- iii hlr.o a nd Nul i ono |
