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Show uu COLORADO PLANT DEAD. PUEBLO. Colo.. Sept. 23.- With the Steel plant of the Colorado Fuel & Iron eorapam. closed as a re.-ult of yesterday's yes-terday's strike of workers, tbere was no excitement here today and on!y a mall number of strikers were in the vicinity of the plant. The eompan made no effort to resume c,pcration.- Strike Conditions Unchanged PITTSBURG, Pa . Bent 28.- Steel strike conditions in the Pittsburg district dis-trict were not greatly changed todj. according to reports f.om both labor and companv sources Secretary William Wil-liam Z. Fofter of the tcel workei Honai committee, said th strike va? spreading and that more men fnare Mil today, not only in the Pittsburg district dis-trict but aUo in outlying sections and in other parts of the country. The Homestead works of '.he Carnegie Steel company, subridiary of the Uni'ed States Steel corporation, were practically "dead." he asserted. Mr. Foster's claims were not borne out by reports coming from the I i-negie i-negie company and from Independent ' steel companj sources. "Tho si'ea-tlon si'ea-tlon is Improved." was the flat dec- lartlon of a Carnegie company. At certain points in western Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania outside the Pittsburg district, strike conditions, while not as bad were not as good os thoy were in tbe vicinity of Pittsburg, it was faid in corporation sources. This was due. it was further said, beCBUSS police protection pro-tection for men who wanted to go to work wa- no as adequate as tw as in jad near Pittsburg. |