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Show LEADERS PREPARE FINANCIAL PLANS FOR LONG STRUGGLE PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 3. While the virtual deadlock continued today in the steel strike In the Pittsburg district, leaders of the organized workers ' were ma.kinfr plans to finance a prolonged struggle. The twenty-four international presidents presi-dents of the unions involved in the strike will meet with the executive council of the American Federation of Labor at Washington Monday for the purposo of discussing plans for the paying of strike benefi Is, it was a nnounced at national headquarters here. The federation is expected ex-pected to levy assessments on all its ' members to aid the benefit fund, it was stated. The individual international unions are reported to have large de-fenso de-fenso funds available for paying benefits. The average benefit pa id by some uninus is $7 per week for single men and $: for married men, H. C. Hughes, international inter-national president of the coopers' union, said. Tho amount varies in the different differ-ent unions. Ho, estimated that $2.liuO,i00 per week will be necessary to cover the benefit fund. While union loaders continued to claim they have the stel mills in this district cripphd. The company officials said that many men were returning to work and that production whs nearly normal. From different places today came word that si eel companies were preparing to open all mills shut down by the strike next Monday. |