Show ARE lESS It REA TENH G I I WH gi lt CONST CONSTABULARY AB ARE fl r Men Organize and Raise a Fund to Be Used for Strike Purposes Rioting Is Subsiding I Pittsburg Pills bu July Jul the tho fir fin time since the tho inauguration or of th strike o of time the or of the Presse Steel Car company at McKees an effectual effort on the part or of th strikers to organize themselves Into mt some semblance of order was about today during a meeting hollI heid on tile the famous Indian mound near ilio th thI plant The meeting or of the tho strikers was wa wasI wat qUiet Orators asked the men to bo b bI patient and exercise judgment In what wha II the they said and did Cheers greeted tho th remarks of the ho speakers who were or orI o different natIonalities and spoke k in inI several languages A fall fair sized fund was raIsed Strikers and their made donations of from 1 to 5 to a 3 general account to bo be used in fighting the car compan for at a aleast least a period o of a month rIme rhe situation is summed up in tho tb statement of a lieutenant of con constabulary who saId saIdI I am convinced that for the pre pres present ent we have the riot tide on the ebb I anticipate no trouble either today or a tomorrow What the nr first t or of the tho eok will bring I cannot say nay Ve are arc pre prepared pared for a long siege and intend to t put down the mob spirit if we remain hero here the balance of the summer July outbreaks out outbreaks breaks and lets of violence are hour houry 13 y expected at time the plant or oi the Pressed Car company Mc McKees Kees Kec nocks flocks as the tho result of oC the tho ab absolute solute refusal to receive o delegations of ol strikers by President N Hon Hoff stott yesterday Mr deem deemed ed cd th that t lie he w would uld not treat with the of the strikers an any consideration and a spirit or of ani animosity an prevails In spIte of the apparent by bI bythe bIthe the strikers officials assert that 1000 men were at work oster day and that twice that number ai we declare that thai eager to o return They of thc tho ever every one of the tho departments car company compan will wUl be In operation on Monday There are arc moro more than enough Idle men Pittsburg in to fill every va vacancy vacancy cancy said even wore vere we wc to discard the fact that the striker would like to come buck back with us Of the 1500 men wh who walked out outon outon on Wednesday all but GOO will be reo re considered as rIng ringleaders leaders and being primarily responsible sible the strike have been officiallY discharged although tiley will not recognize the fact denials Were made mado by bj President of the car com cam company campany pany of charges of unfaIr methods and the tho ruthless taking of human life Ilfe He also defended the tho pooling system of wages declaring that It spurred the men on to their best and tinder it H earned morE morp than the they would If paid a fixed In spite of time the quiescent attitude of the strikers company officials still fear attempts at the thc destruction or of theIr PropertY At their request nine tet wore were sworn In by Sheriff Gumbert yesterday after making a total or of s and member of the state who are now guard guarding lag ing the A typical demonstration tion or of the attitude of the tho strikers was Instanced yesterday when a striker found a helmet which had been boen knock ell ad off one of time the The Tho Thol l khaki headgear was placed on a pole poo and of men women and chil ireum dren danced a about out It hooting and jeer jeerIng jeerIng Ing the mute symbol of martin martial law TheIr shouts attra attracted led the tho troopers who charged the tho group A brief battle ensued during which the women out nut stripped the men in their ferocious ness mess Jt It ended when the tho crowd rush rushed ed tl to tIme the land landing Ins to prevent the do de delhery ivery of oC be which the company Intended Inside the tho plant Cor or the use uso of theIr men After a des desultory clash the cots were landed and the works placed laced In a stable Inside The rite amen sleep side by br side sido with the tho I IThe torsos horses The strike movement seems to have I I certain la Ia labor gained strong sympathy in bor tor circles It Is rumored that some somo few ow Pittsburg laborers have havo gone Sono to and augmented the Rocks areas or of time tho striking men inca I Several of sympathY by local union or have mave been beon passed rho rhe committee trades council of the theA of f time the building A merican Federation of oC Labor has Is Hued a 11 statement to tho country at large argo declaring at tile the plant so o as to requIre the lie strike unorganized workmen The or f oven oen general public is asked to subscribe to toa toL a L fund which will the men inca to subsist until tho they obtain the victory which the committee declares certain I I I II I I I I t I I I I I I I I I I I I several thousand American workmen who are aro opposed to the tho All available state police In this are on duty at the tho steel strike at Mt h Kees Rocks nocks and the Butler count county au an were asked t ti await further ts When the mill gates ates were ero thrown open toda today the American workmen began besan entering the Plant Several hun hundred hundred dred foreigners endeavored to stop them and a fight followed followell All saloons at Lyndora have been closed I |