The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1919, Page 2

; t ia } THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1919. | STRIKE LEA DERS MEET IN PITTSBURGH TO EX TEND WALK OU bcwn. The union mon claim 2,000) pany was giving out information that men on strike in the works, they had only a 20 per cent. shut- ‘ MANY INDEPENDENTS ARE RUN- | down there, while the union leaders NING SHORT HANDED. there “know positively that there in ’ Conflicting claims alfp continue to|a 98 per cent. shut-down.” come from small independent plants| “We closed two large independent in the Pittsburgh district. Many of| planta in Pittsburgh to-day,” he |LEADER OF STRIKERS SOUTH CHICAGO SLAB MILLS Carnegie Steel Company at Steuben /SiX MONTHS’ SUT GOWN ahem are working, but few of thom full handed, according to the best in- formation obtainable. Inquiry at the generai offices here of the American Steel & Wite Com- pany as to the situation inf ite plants scattered throughout the Pittsburgh district elicited this general state- ment: Little change in the plants in the outlying districts; a change for the better in the Pittsburgh field; Shoen- berger works of the company in added. “They wero the plants of the A. M. Byers Company and the Oliver | & Snyder Stee] Company.” Mr, Foster said that he was highly in MANY INJURED IN ton, he said, men were continually f ‘ PT os | walking out. He declared that the Mob Disorders Also in Cleve- |iocal ateet plants were practicaty an} land and Buffalo—Troopers Rushed to Scenes, shut down with the exception of the | Jones & Laughlin works on the south | side. | + J 100k to continue.” The udvunce guard of a large num-| CHICAGO, Sept, 24.—The first vio~ worked with a reduced force. way, ts with the Amalgamated Asso- 2,000,000 each and Pittsburgh wotking full-handed r of organizers sent into the di-|lence of the steel strike in this dis- Two of three plants at Kast)’ Hundreds of strikers gathered about jon, and the hiindreds of these | More cor cArane fre vas faPaten many men who feared to work Mon-ltrict by the United Mine Workers’ | trict occurred last night at Indiana Chicago, employing 1,000 men, are not | {he sétes of the buildings, many, of H meh wll are anxious to return | Veer iy has heen dvawn is set BY com ; u » “ ud them muttering threats, The slab work. Th annot work, how-! 0 day and Tuesday now returning be-) Union hegan to arrive to-day. They| Harbor, Ind., when about 400 strike affected by the strike because of anjmills wero shut down yesterday. lever, eo long as the tinskilled men | Py, officials at $60,000. cause of assurance of police protec-}are peing assigned to Homestead, | *¥mpathizers outside the Conte Plant existing agreement between workers, There were persistent rumors that {are out ites rethe warnifiee aailabit aed tion. Braddock and other large steel] of the Mack Manufacturing Company and employers. | $00 negroes from the South had Another fabricating plant, the] '#Pore te WADE The daily summary given out dY| towns, attacked 2% men as they left work. | Weports were In circulation to-day |DTOUENE Into the plant as strike-| Youngstown Hreased Bice! Company, | ; HEL a ag official of the Carnegie Steel Com-| rye National Committee for Organ-| Eight or nine men were badty nt strthebrenkere hed hen Impertelt]’ Union leaders denied: the ‘tru oflthie moming. DISCUSS USE OF Fl L to-day says mathe overnight situation has been very gratifying. The men are com- ing in at the various plants, in small numbers to be sure, but sufficient to continue’ our operations. ining the Steel Workers went late ex-] beaten and wore taken to an emer- ecutive session shortly after 11 o'clock, | 8@NCY hospital after Indiana Harbor The fight to uphold the constitutional | Police stoppec the Nghting, A num~ rights of the sthel workers will be car-| Der of shots were fired at the police ried to the highest courts, John Hite-|DUt Mone was hit. A negro striker patrick, Chairman, declared before the | Who carried a rifle was arrested, “ $e | | F FOREIGNERS MOVED BY “UN- | mectiny. CLEVELAND, Sept, 4.—Four men | ranks was the reported intention of| practically tied up. “Boldest Attempt Economic Is Made Practical. AMERICAN” CHARGE. “All matters pertaining to the strike | Were stabbed, two probably fatally, forty rollers of the American Sheet on Dare Soke ma tak the Late sci Gi iil, War,” | The proposed use of fuel oll instead “There seems to be @ sentiment | that needs our attention will be taken ae ye SAThue ae ered Peete and Tin Plate Company at Gary, Ind.,| jr operating with 7 Bevo By eat eens Bon age inc ivil ur Jot coal for heat, fuel and ight was ‘among the foreign workmen around) Up," Mr. Fitzpatrick said. “ivery 4 A Wite : richerowen | to return to work. According to com-' It employed 5,000 men before the strike. Says Union Chief. ldiscussed this afternoon at a pubite some of our plants this mording that | Constitutional right of the workers las | ed sila eevee arte Newburg |— -—— - cabin —| WASHINGTON, sept. %—The anti-|!earing in the Burea of Standards and would tend to relieve the situation | been denied in the Pittsburgh atstriot, | Plan’ Prpeebeonis Tr ike. na aise | Le eetiun at the Cumming Hail {Appeals in the Municipal Building, ; ne: stu ce 0} e steel strike, i ; Chairman John R. Lee presiding. ’ le brol Moat of th vel \- “In some manner it has got to Bede ee pene nga (2 be, law | The ahaedey “a Bey bleh streot shackles of involuntary servitude on) .g/ ot Of 8 ba Pit Sy yh +) them that the American workman ing and keep within the law. car stopped pea plant to let off Iroad workers,” W. M. Doak, Vice |tentative draft of proposed rules for Several organizations in thin district were summoned to appear at to-day's meeting to give information regarding assaults on strikers by the Stite police at Homestead, Claition and McKees- men bound for work at the mills, Among those who got off the car were three negroes, Strike sympa- | thizers sought to stop them from has not gone out as the foreigner had been told, and the fatter has © given expression to the desire to be an American, and in some in- port. acco 1 mic bondage since Givi | eam, thaw gee Cede Cay: ey drew R Ore stances has resented to being hi tise Gapbetan’ hattere.to've | ere ne te BiaRe rding to CLHVBLAND, Sept, 24 (United concern. They were given the choice | Wir Sad would create an industrial In= | M2Ustties. called “un-American.” conridered by the committee, it wus on dig and two ot i negroes Ppress).-Approximately 80 per cent.) Of “pearing in court or going back ithe —>—_—_+ e to be gens |, Would be that of financing the w knives, A general fight ensued, 4 _| to Detrait. The police herded them | {}" ‘ * + “if this septiment proves to be B¥bs | strike nhould it be prolonged any; The negroos returned to the atreet of the steel industry ia Ohio is pare-| O14 Detrottebound boat near inid-| “We cannot and, will not accept It an] UO MORE STRIKE ARRESTS eral it cannot but be helpful to the Db» entire situation, and that dt is at least growing and spreading would ap- parently be indicated by the gradual return to work. ‘In ali our big mills, those up the Monongahela Valley, further improve- ¢° ment ts shown to-day. The foreign © Jeborer is returning in all of them, ‘Homestead, Duquesne and Edgar ‘Thomson. ’ <Phere is a most marked improve- ment at Clairton, while at Farrell, © aespite the continued disorder and *tloting, we are still working, © “All in all there is an improve © “oondition all along the line which we length of time, | Scores of arrests were made in the vicinity of the steel’ mills during the day. “Twonty foresners were ar tested, charged with interfering with nen on their way to work in the south side plants, and were fined, Eight men were arrested in Du- quesne, charged with refusing to obey the policemen’s orders to “keep mov- ing.” Seven foreigners were arrested in Homestead on @ simifar charge. One Man was arrested here on a charge of passing circulars to strik- ere urging them to remain @way from ‘the anills. He was fined $50. 400 Birmingham Strikers Want Retgrn to Werk. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Bept, 24.—Steel Corporation officials in the Birming- ham district, declared that the strike en a: at most of the 400 en w) went out here were ri TRaNtas aghast’ q ju There hes been no disorder here. = car'for shelter, The car was pur- sued by hundreds of strike sympa thizers and bombarded with pricks and stones and the three men seized and beater Two other disturbances broke out in the Newburg district this morning, in one of which a man was slightly hurt. trolman Hack was serene) beaten and one man was believed to have been shot near the Otis Steel Company plant, FARRELL, Pa, Sept. 24.—Although all was quiet here 02-day following last night's «utbreak in which one man was killed and several persons were wounded, the situation was tense, State police and @ large num- ber of deputy sheriffs were patrolling the streets within the riot gone. BUFFALO, N.Y. Sept, 24.—With to “Mr. Foster, commenting on the claims of the Carnegie interests, said that in the Chicago district the com- RADICA (Continged from First Page.) strike resembling that which Foster is| guiding in the heart of the groat steel manufacturing business. HALF OF AMERICA’S STEEL IS MADE THERE. More than 60 per cent. of tho siee! turned out in the United States passes through the mills of Pittsburgh and the territory closely contiguous to the city. This is the birthplace of steel prod- ucts in the United States. The busi- ness was started by strong men, and one of their principles was never to allow the unlon to become strong enough to dictate. Twice union or- ganizations, in presuming to dictate, have come to disaster in this part of the country, Foster, sturting aguinst organization handieap which did not exist in the of@ days, thinks the third time Is the charm. > 1t would appear from newspaper reports sent out from Pittsburgh and inspired by the steel manufacturers that the strike thus far is practically @ failure. As m matter of fact, the strike is considerable of a success. The situation is the more remarkable for the reason that it is a strike which, except for grievances manu- factured for propaganda purposes, 1s | not based upon discontent with wages or working conditions, The skilled men in the steel industry are satisfied come into a district in which union labor as a recognized organisation bas never been very strong. He has tackled the hardest job of the stec} attike, the direction of the Pittsburgh @istrict, in which not only capital, as typified by bankers, manufacturers, \' wholesalers, retailers and the pro- feasiong, byt conservative union labor ere atl against his ideas. Thus far he bas succeeded in materially crip- j= Pling the steel industry—utterly para- | .Aysing it in some sections—pnd tt \ would appear, from what observation | eah gather from » preliminary survey | @f the field, that he is telling the _ trtth when he says be has just begun | to fight. | Never in this country was there a! N usually reprint stories' ‘they haveappeared in magazines. But not The News-—it’s a different kind of newspaper in’ this as in othe’ ways. : Read the names of the writers shown at the left. Then tell your newsdealer you want The Newsdeliveredevery morning. with their pay and hours. They do not want to strike, and as a goneral thing they are not affiliated with the MEN IN REALITY HAVE NO REAL GRIEVANCES. Nor have the unskilled or common Ivborers any real grievunces ‘about i men are non-Kaglish speaking , @reigners from Southern and South- j western Europe, a majority from the 1.9 or ne tory Balkan States where they were te ‘are the men Foster ang his able and ‘diligent associates have unionized 4 K ‘and they have gone on strike, not for 2) HAT'S the price paid by ‘the purpose of bettering their con- ® eause they belleve a successful strike the seties of Short Stories wir put them on the same plane as whi . Fy the Mnglish-speakin, industrious ich it will publish in the and superiatively prosperous skilled next few weeks, the tacit consent of the employers, have succeeded in keeping foreign : labor almost completely out of the marenoeore pa hliibed GtO* ‘highly paid, one might say mill aris- ries they aré, by first-rank y p BY pretty generally out of the halt- skilled rank: These aliens are ali fired by the lallurement of more money for | of the eventual rule of the prole- tariat. They are all comparatively wealthy—that is, they carry in money belts around their bodies hun- closdly matted, greasy greenbacks, The commonest manyal laborer in the steel mills ts paid from four dol- lars to four dollars and a half a day, hours vary. A majority work about ten hours a day. Some work eleven and twelve hours a day, They aspire to work about five hours a day and rollers and other skilled men, who j have been in the mills for genera- i tions, are paid and then to work out a plan by which they will mot only jof the business as well, PRINCIPLES OF STRIKE FOR- | EIGN TO REAL AMERICANS. That ts why this is a very denger- American Federation of Labir. pay or hours, Pratically all of these roared in unrest and agitation, They The News for just one of “#!en in a material way, but be- workers, who, as a class, and with \toracy, and have also kept foreigners writere—not reprints. work and by the prospect held forth dreds and tho js of dollars in with extra pay for overtime, The draw down the same money that the draw the big pay but take the profits ous etrike, It t# based upon prin- this strike is backed by the American ville, is idle The Weirton, W. “ plant of the We on Steel Compan. WHO WILL BE HEAR REPORTED OPERATING AGAIN|: 2iccn2 =) PRESS MEN RETHRH HOW, to mill official 0 BY GONGRESS PROBERS sr eg, wept, ou—| STEEL COMPANY WARN ee foe able e ret i ee} B ant TS ant ae wae 1066-00004 ing Valley closed down, attention ere | antiaeds ” : POVEDOCES TOO GOOF ITSO 800 Rollers and Men Reported Ready to to-day way read euttentios tel nd Employees at Indiana Hat 4 CHICAGO, sopt. 24.—While leaders] pany reports each of these men would | Detween, the American Federation af | . Imatum, q of the strikinig steel workers in the Labor Unions of unskilled men and! ry,ANA HARBOR. Ind. Sept, 26 Chicago district and heads of steel] mills each claimed gains, there ap- | peared little char: » to-day in the! PRIS ROHS ORE and practically every one in operation | Into the Chicago district and that some of the mills idle since Monday | contemplated resuming operations by pooling workmen who remained loyal. Regarded by employees as the most important defection from the strikers’ number of plants in operation. A{a force of $00 men, many of them| in its sheet departmencs 8; | majority of the mills were still closed | esroes. ‘Smoke issued from the | ftepublic Iron and Steel Comp in jcompany would shut down the plaat |chimney and the noise of the ma-| ity DeForest plant, and the xix months uring back his crew of twenty men. The slab mills of the linois Steel Company at South Chicago were re- ported to be in operation to-day with ort of th Inland Steel Com4 aljpany sent an ultimatum to their strike | that unlces they returned to work within two days the ation of Iron, | jal chinery could be heard séveral blocks | Steel Hoop Company, all have agree-! The company's furnaces are said te the report, saying that they had every entrance to the plant picketed and that no men had been taken into the buildings during the night, GARY, Ind., Sept. 24—Union lead era still declare that 98 per cent. of the Obeyed the —E DECLARES CUMMINS BILL PUTS ‘SHACKLES ON LABOR INSTEAD OF COAL HER Experts Say Saving of $200,000 a Day Could Be Affected if System local steel workers have strike order and that all plants are lyzed, union organizers claimed to-| night. The police hold that by keep- | a proper tribunal,” Doak declared of the day—tho third day of the stecl strike, | ing out strikebreakors the chances of /iratian feature of the measure. Police, Metuforced im Millinery They said 80,000 steel workers nad| “lence will be minimised, | the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Dintrict, Halt Disorders, ” : | Crowds of strikers gathered at two|and Engine Men, declared the Bill war! Disorder in the millinery district in suspended work in the State. This! pants and hurled stones and taunts| trvteheun citizens” al ifth Avenue from 36th to 39th Streets estimate included union men and un-| at a few struggling workers who still | —_————- RE CONSIST AR Siren at ten ok organized workers, the latter made| remained on duty. They disperted |Canada ‘Traden Congrens Kmuorses (08 PY {ht rinfonmunent of i polme idle by the suspension of many | before the police arrived. Steel Workers 4 2 Pobateacitahs« _ lias Henry W. Raisse, strike — in| hedertenaben i A he eres 3 a eee cdeica $34 East the plants of the Lackawanna Steel!” Oni, two independent concerns lh Ata robe said 25,000 men | Domine an an aes LL them : Mis ; uth Wi plowed Company, Rogers Brown & Co. and) worg operating in Clevwiand to-day. oe! pany close a . «are slowly |States steel Wor support of the 4 her from her and 4 Hi pei ebg Miia a4 “4: |Conteacts with the Amalgamated As- bait Nag anit ak ba slowly | irinciple of col bargaining and because she ped 88 yt ‘ i rning to the plants. was re-|bent a telegram to that effect to ta ee Police patrolling the streets of Lacka- | sociation of Sheet and Tin Workers potted that hve ee wb ben mil tthe [leaders of the s Rattagtia wanna lv-day there appeared to bejenabled them to continue production, litle likiihood of @ recurrence of the|mppe jast of the subsidiary plants of trouble which led to the killing of ce] corporation shut down late| one man and the wounding of several |*h® Steel corpo ginere adoiaat yesterday | operation and the sixth mill would be! {ONDON,' Sept. 24.—The report was YOUNGSTOWN, O., Sept. Police ha a orm Stand, in operation late to-day. Monday jcirculated in Amoerfean circles here men were attacked and their skull$| against impo ‘of strikebreak- | after the strike call, only three mills |to-day. thee Bee mang. bboy: Be ie’ tay A fractured here to-day during disor-| 4. hey took {ito custody fifty-nine | were in operation. Pree League Uf Nations “hands ders at the Republic [ron & Steel Co, plant. men brought from Detroit by a steel L ELEMENT SEEKS CONTROL IN STEEL STRIKE; most leisurely way of sloing things. His smile is quite engaging although when he smiles he shows only his strong, quite even upper teeth. His cheeks dimple a bit at such times and the outer corners of his eyes wrinkle but he is not much given to sn. iling. Federation of Labor, not because the [STaike LEADER DOES VAST corpervative leaders of that orgen!- | ae DEAL oe ee a >} erted .| In the coursy of a day he gets awa sation. pepe been Cee to syndi-| vith a terrific amount of work. He| calism or “direct action, ‘but because |}. ine ideal executive in that he gen- they have been out-generaled by erally contines himself to Sireotiee y but he does take upon himselt some bsbrapeed ei paved be ai gles en. | minor tasks which indicate that a Nr aerrey the fens OFS there have been times when he found ized labor in Chicago, who are OUt/ that leaving some duties to pitiers | and out radic y rticularly|was not the best policy for Foster, EOE Tene Pe Por instunce, he takes ail the money + a that comes in to the bank in person, He hag gome systein of bookkeeping ciples which have always been for- ¢lgn to the tastes and inclinations of skitled American labor and which have been diligently fought by the American Federation of Labor. But Perhaps it might help the reader t ; of thelwhich involves scribbling on }oose Mr. Gompers was |nacex eventually tho half-skilled and ft Scans Hegcharig is point EGaS of paper which he drops into | Made the head of the committee, Mr. | skiled men will have to remain OVINGTON’S situation here if I should at this pe drawers of his desk. When he gets Fitzpatrick was made Vice Chairman |/away, too, even though they are tell something about Foster, This} Gre wert Om Vecps two! stenog-| 2nd William Z. Foster, but slightly | against the strike itself because they “The Gift Shop of Sth Ave.” man |s a power. Not long since he} raphers busy, but he will kmock off known in A. F. L. circies at that| will have nothing to work with. And in the middle of a dictation to talk with visitors about the strike and what he professes to he trying to do, ¥ 3 an out and out 1 W. W., an enemy of the American Federation of Labcr and entirely out of sympathy N- e in Pittsburgh to be a 5 with the slow moving methods of that} A- Ff» OF L. IN HOPE OF CON: | steel workery Slgation moves |auestion if in the prementeatate o low moving TROLLING IT. ment, ‘Fitspatrick becamo Chairman |{ubor ‘market ‘ther cam pene sate PER D AY organization. To-day, next to Samuel Gompers, he is, I am told by labor leaders, the most potent influence in the American Federation of Labor. William %, Foster has popped up in the American Federation of Labor with the same effect of a submarine popping up in the midst of # convoy Foster does not deny that he en- tered the American Federation of Labor for the purpose of fastening his ideas on that organization. But he insists, and it ig admitted, that in all his operations since he joined the American Federation of Labor he bas scrupulously followed all the rules of that organization in respect in mid-Atlantic during the war. There| of organization und management. | hit the old days the saloon wae the re. | i y paid men whose fathers or | the 0 7 e is this difference. The submarine ba Gompere Knows me and Reeve | andfathers started in when the in- oe Loom ad she orga | NER gould be chased away, but the) Macr in the” Bederation, know (dustry was young as day laborers | fi” PRE ey Uenaeey gh ; q said or ever en : 6280 FOSTER IN DIRECT CHARGE OF |inomabic ts say that 1 have swerved UUlky oF resourostuinees, There 1s 8] 5 Arad ae la a PTR a Ala os Mee cscne Specialty Co THE STRIKE. Tenia ca ea corneaar Pea oe hitherto kept them out of indiscrimi-| towns now and the beer is quite "131 West 42d St. work with which | am most familiar and in which I can produce the best ly, organization, I am an organizer and I admit I am organizer, Am I not, Tom?” Foster directa the strike from @ Nttle room in the Magee Building in| Pittsburgh. He has no private office. | ‘The room is equipped with a roll top , which had by made n of Mayor Hylan. It ugh, that if a practic- thod of using the fue} ofl were it would mean @ saving of not Brotherhood of Rail state Commerce Committee to-day fable r é “It is the boldest attempt at individual | found said ——= Lioyd George Coming to U. S., Report in London. _ E Guernsey plant of the American : Sheet and Tinplate Company were in Id adopt a te The Mingo Junction Plant of the | October. stockyards and packing houses of | organizer, for probably/60. per. cent. | Chicago and Kansas City. Jof them had planned to go back to “{ perfected that organization,” he|their homes in Europe where they said to-day, “without & strike or ajare told the proletariat is in power, disturbance of any kind. I could do | But, if the proletariat is to come into the same thing in the steel industry,| power in the United States, why not but the sieel capitalists are eure: |ramain here? crats and they think they can con-|miULg§ CANNOT RUN WITHOUT tinue to enforce their rule in this4 part of the country with the aid of} UNSKILLED LABORERS. their cossacks or mounted police.| Foster's strategic advantage is that Well, we'll have the cossacks with |the mills cannot run without the us one of these fine days.” |common laborers who are on strike After Foster had organized the|They handle the raw material goins packing industries, an A. FP, L. meet-|into the mills and the finish: ing was held in Chicago to talk over |ria! going out. Half-skille the idea of organizing the steel work- | ly-shilled labor will not ers, Samuel Gompers was present at the mesting, as were most of the Vice S54-— White China Honey Pot 83.60 ODD It is @ paradox that the Fifth Avenue shop foremost with the newest gifts and ingenu- ities is 70 years old. Itis no Jess unique that the shop with, the highest level of taste should be the store with the lowest level of prices. touch suave as it passes through their hands jin the course of Wansition from raw Presidents of the A. F. L. and the| material to finished product. Conso- this prominent leaders. It was agreed to|quently {if the common laborer re. go ahead with the task of organizing | mains away from the mills and fur- the steel workers, time, was made Secretary and Treas- urer. Mr. Gompers went to Europe and dropped active connection with the trouble will come when the mill ow:- ers begin to import common labor to take the places of the strikers, It is said 314 Fifth Av,, near32dSt. © and Foster continued as Secretary and Treasurer, which office he holds to-day, Gradually the bulk of or- ganization work fell upon Foster. + Chicago and other points outside Pittsburgh responded quite readily to the regular organization work, but Pittsburgh loomed up as a dificult, almost inaccessible fied. In the Pittsburgh mills were thousands of cient supply of common labor outside of professional strikebreakers, and professional strikebreakers are not | strong for labgrious effort, | | ye RENTS serious disorder, Both sides agree | Any High-Class Electric that prohibition is largely responsible | for this state of affairs. The Pitts- | ( UU burgh district is appallingly dry. in| innocuous, nafe labor unions, and does at this time. ORGANIZED OUTSIDE MEN THE INDUSTRY. IN turning to Tom Conboy, a stout, round-faced, good-natured individual, who has been his right-hand man ta organizing the Pittsburgh district and who personally directed the organ- izing of the steel workers and all other classes of workers in Johns- town, Pa. which all hands admit is desk, which is never closed, a type- writing machine desk and a table and a few chairs. The place is as open as 4 frankfurter stand at Coney Island, Foster meets all comers. He talks freely with his lieutenants in the hearing of newspaper correspondents, to-day "100 per cent. union com-|ers, electricians and general mechan. "| munity. ica engaged in keeping up the plants for some of whom he bas high per- |i" say you are,” replied Conboy, |and the machinery, These men, with onal regard, although he has no re-| with a grin, the consent of their locals in Pitts gard whatver for the press as an ine stitution. He talks over the long distance tel- SELF-EDUCATED MAN, WITH A GOOD FLOW OF LANGUAGE. “ A - Foster, although a self-edycated | Poo cnized u union as yet. erously em) h tasty chovned Nuts, gghone to is associates tn Chicago, | man, “haw a wide vocabulary and | rere ar Organiser did not |{ Offered ae» ereat THU MSDAY Sie Youngstown, Johnstown and other steel mill cetres and with aides in Washington and then, to make clear to those who have heard his conver- tion just what il was all about, he tells what the fellow on the other end of the line told him, He is a slim man, about five feet possesses an astonishing command of clear and correct English when ne wents to use it He says he is a railroad man by training, and cer- tainly from his looks he has had a lot of experience as a railrodder, He has also been a street cur worker and has organized carmen’s unions in the West. It is quite impossible to get him to tell in detail of his, activities , since he became convinced that the goad~ eanuts, nine inches tall, a typical Western | since he became cor vieal ds to get |sunization because they were led toi] | ee" cet the ‘reuire: rea railroader, His hands show that he | gonservative organized labor to think |believe that if they did not join t meaty of , those who has worked hard in his time and he |along his lines by getting right into |wagos Would be cut as soon as peace Enew, Gnd. venenaite must be under forty. He has a good | the middie of conservative organised |is declared, and if ¢ ney aid Join ney |] | Feafiows ta 70 head, small ears, keen, clear eyes, the |!abor and spreading hie propaganda | ely, aloe tie i} | aettstie arene Ho | wer. sunet’ teentions obo from the inside out, He says he first jaw and chin of a leader of men, @| attracted attention by organising the skill small mouth with thin lps and the! lebor, unskilled and ied, im the ra Foster, a master general, soon saw the lay of the land, He found that in the rolling mills and blast furnaces there ure at work in various capaci- ties outside the actual manufacture of steel tens of thousands of various unions affiliated with the A. F, L, such as carpenters, machinists, paint. POUND PROFIT rd burgh and other stee| towns, wer working in open shops. The steel companies have never discriminated against union men, but have never For To-Morrow, Thursda, CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA NUT CAKAME dainty blocks ef Chocolate and Vanilla flavored q These fe I to delight candy lovers, TAL. OUND Bi bother with these union men. He went in and organised, practically solidly, the forelgn manual labor cle- ment. The job took almost a year. The men who are on strike are swax- xering around with their money belts full of greasy bills, living on the san scale they livéd on when they were getting one-third the money they earn to-day, ‘They entered the or Attractive Wednesday Offerings sa likes | Naty mi in this Assertiment ToLhing, 0, overoated, lection ty camped Almonds, ©" Pecans Uberts, Walnuts aa be is to turn all industry over to working man, ‘They were particularly, ripe for the \ Ce ——— tclevtirne directory, ‘The specified weight includes the container.