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Show STEEL CORPORATION HEADS ARE SILENT ON EVE OF STRIKE NEW YORK. Sept. 21 The usual Sunday Sun-day calm prevailed today at the headquarters head-quarters of the United States Steel corporation cor-poration here. There was no indication of uneasiness over the fact that a strike, designed to force suspension of operations in ail the company's 145 plants in twenty states, will go into effect tomorrow. Both. Elbert li. Gary, chairman of the board of directors, and James A Farrell, president of the corporation, spent the day at their country homes. Mr. Gary adhered ad-hered to his policy of silence, and issued no statement of the company's plans for combating the strike. Each subsidiary has been given permission to meet the situation as its officers see fit. The. only general order which has been made public was the letter from Mr. Gary to the presidents presi-dents of the various subsidiaries, directing them not to yield on the principle of the "open shop." It is not probable any comment will be made on the strike until the corporation learns what percentage of its 26S.00O employees em-ployees respond to the strike call. These reports must come from plants in Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Connecticut, Alabama, California. Wash- j ington, Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas, "Wisconsin, "Wis-consin, Minnesota, West Virginia. Dela- ware. New York and Ontanio and Canada, i It was estimated, however, that the , number of workers affected directly or indirectly by liie strike will aggregate half a million. The average daily pay of 1 the corporation's employees, including the administrative . and selling force. Is $6.23. according to a recent report to the di- rectors. This is an increase of 116 per j cent since 114, when the average was : $.SS; the average annual pay in 1'JlS was $lijO. Iron ore properties of the corporation are mainly in tiie Lake Superior diptriot, the southern region of Alabama and Virginia. Vir-ginia. Coal and coke properties are lo- j cated in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado, : West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Extensive coke, oil and gas properties are also owned and controlled In a number of states and at several lake , porta there are extensive ore docks. Seven ocean-going steamers and numerous smaller craft are owned and operated to- gether with more than lOuO miles of rail- , road. |