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Show MEN REFUSE TO REPORT FOR DUTY ON NIGHT SHIFT (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) CHICAGO, Sept. 21. With men and employers rushing eleventh-hour preparations prepara-tions to completion, the grat stul strike fell on the Chicago and Calumet districts tonight, when hundreds of workers refused re-fused to answer the steam blasts calling them to earlv niht shifts. Officially, the strike went Into effect at midnight, but afier a day of ha-ranuuing ha-ranuuing and cheering of lar;;e crowds gathered at meetings in the various "steel cities" suuth, east and north of Chicaco. hundreds of union men refused to enter the plants. If nil of the men who appeared at the vanoi s meetings In Gary. Indiana Harbor, Har-bor, Joii't. Hammond und Waukegan fail to appear for wurk tomorrow, the claim of the unl-ms that the sr.-ei indus-I indus-I ry will be tied up in the middle west mav he fullilled. The situation at Gary, the vortex of the lo. al strike whirlpool, was typical. More than tijnn men answered the union call at Hast Side park to har the ofli-i ofli-i lals of- the United Slates Se'-l corporation corpora-tion condemned for their refusal to treat with t ae workers. Tii1 union heads cla imed that f.ci.ij men were a i ready on strike and would not report for work. Eu'-al sup-r Intend - nt s, however, de-cktre-j that the plants would continue to op -rate as long an the men cRn.e to work. There will be no il res drawn as lone as t here are fait '.ful em ploy et- to w a ten them. They d.-rldod H3 mere esai;pera-i esai;pera-i Ion union claims that the plants .ould be shuf down. They rstlinntod the union strenirt'n as between 5 ni;d per cent of the workers' total and promised pro-tpetinn pro-tpetinn for the men who reported for work tomorrow. TPe ni;mncMiif nt of the Illinois Slec i conipauy. a subsld .ary of t be I" n it ed States Stef 1 corporation, niKd-" re;nly to protect itfi plants. 1 City autliorl t ies and Siurin i,-n-Parties, in whose territory clashes .ire i exported if any mn ferial lie, will throw ' hu ud i ed of deput Ies Into lary. Eift v ' police will palrol the main Mreet. Proad- j w a'. and rre ent crowd m from accumu- : la t The strikers drew cn-isidf rable i sat isf art ion from t be fact that no one 1 repotted tills morning to join t ho "rttl-Zi-ns" league" wiibh v.ns planned as ft hul wai k analnflt disorder In Gary. ! A not her faiuit men in 1 ndln na Harbor ovfrilowod into the streets becHiise tlie auditorium w as too small to urcotnmo-flaie urcotnmo-flaie them. It was clnini-'d that Sn per (nt of the 12, 000 workers were union-Iz-d. .lollet saw h repetition of thi. Only ?:,w men could 11 nd room In si do the Slavic school hall, ami more stood fibout In Die streets. unnlle to har the rnpfsn(ic brought by organisers from Chi- , Cairo. ! In Hammond, where l.vvt employees of the Staudiird Slel Car conipKUy have been on strilco for weekn, every man but one in Ihe 1 soil union of eloelrical workers work-ers voted to no out In nympalhy with the Mer-1 workers. Thern are about 10,00') ernploved in the ti'aile In Haiunmnd. Nearly 'nOii m.-t at Winik..in. tho limne nf tb- M'irk plant of Mir American Steel - Wire conip.ni. which Ikik teen considerabk- labor trouble during thf pa ft yea r, 1 nion leaders cla lined t hat 'JO0 ie. riilts Were obtained duvliuj tlio meeting. |