Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1919 — STEEL MILLS ARE FORTIFIED [ARTICLE]

STEEL MILLS ARE FORTIFIED

Chicago-Calumet Factories Prepare to Run Despite Strike —Store Rifles and Food. Chicago, Sept. 19.—Officials of the steel plants in the South Chicago and Calumet districts are making preparations to operate their plants as usual in the event of the strike of workerscheduled for Monday. They insist that the great majority of workers will be steadfast, and are supplying cots and carloads of food, with the intenhousing and feeding the workers inside the plants. At Gary and the Independent steel plant in Indiana Harbor it was said rifles and ammunition for guards who will protect the properties are being taken into the plants, and the same conditions are said to prevail at the Standard Steel plant in Hammond.