Show STRIKE THREAT BROKE STEEL Market I Shows Falling Off for Freight Cut NEW NEV YORK TORK Nov B. B The The steel market marketis is Irregular both In relation to prices and to demand Reports on October sales show moderate expansion which was believed to have been caused partly by fears tears of a rail strike tr This demand has fallen off and there Is a disposition to await reductions in rail ran freights There Is a fair business however in the tho lighter products which are aro steady while heavy weights are quiet and easy with some pressure to sell seil Pig iron Is quieter as the recent buying appears to have filled requirements for tIle the time being and buyers are awaiting developments I regarding freight rates Prices are barely steady and unchanged In copper coppel there has been a somewhat Improved improved improved im Im- im- im I proved demand Buyers for domestic consumption consumption con con- have been bien a little more active either as a result of betterments in their trade conditions or increased confidence In prices because of ot the strengthening tion The unsettled ruling of ot exchange rates has probably restricted export business business business busi busi- I ness but some further sales have been re reported re- re ported for tor shipment to Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and France Deliveries Into domestic consumption last month were estimated at atI I about s eighty firmly fy m millon maintaining r tar pounds fn their e quotations producers pro pro- lot of 13 11 to 13 U 1 for nearby and forward deliveries deliveries deot de de- de- de liveries of ot electrolytic Tin has shown little change Visible supply figures were bearish and general de demand demand de- de mand light but the reduction In the English English En En- glish bank rate gave a a. better tone at the close of or the week Lead was quiet Stocks both here and abroad are light and demand on the whole is satisfactory t ct z Zinc is held hi higher her checking demand somewhat have made macic Inquiries for early shipment anI and the tile ole oie market IsI is reported strong with a good demand and no extension of ot smelting operations I Antimony continues quiet and easy owing to expected arrivals here |