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John Fitzpatrick and William Foster meet with Pennsylvania strike leaders in Pittsburgh, PA., September 24, 1919.
Credit: Image donated by Corbis-Bettmann
In 1919, more than fifty of U. S. Steel's 142 mills were located in Pennsylvania. Two days after the start of the national steel strike, John Fitzpatrick, acting chair of the National Committee for Organizing Iron and Steel Workers, and secretary treasurer William Z. Foster met with Pennsylvania strike leaders in Pittsburgh. The next day Fitzpatrick called unsuccessfully for President Woodrow Wilson to arbitrate a settlement.