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Show ASKS GOVERNMENT TO MAKE INVSETIGATION WASHENGTOX, Aug. 20. That laborers la-borers employed by tho Pressed Steel Car eompnny at McKces Bock, Pa., tho sceno of the present strike, aro not paid tho share lo which they are entitled under the protective tariff system, is asserted lry Secretary Morrison, Mor-rison, of the American Federation of Labor, in a statement made today. The charge is embodied in a request forwarded for-warded by Mr. Morrison to Secretary Nagcl for an investigation, Mr. Morrison takes the position that a? the company is enabled by tho protective pro-tective system" to charge much higher prices, tlic government should make an inquiry. The request is based upon section S of the act of February J-i, 1!)0:, which requires the secretary of commerce and labor to make special investigations, either upon the request of tho president or of either house of congress, or upon his own initiative. Pointing out that the strikers arc aliens and not members of any labor organization. Mr. Morrison declares that their wages have been "reduced bv officers of the Pressed Steel Car company to the extout that, in sheor desperation, they decided to eeuso woik until their many grievances, which thev could no longer bear, were remedied and a higher wage ralu was paid." , . . , , Mr. "Morrison tnkes the position that the rioting and needless sacrifice of human life should not be permit l ed to divert attention from the fact that those rcgretable incidents are "the direct di-rect result of the unbearable and unbo-licvable unbo-licvable conditions that have been forced upon these defoiiHoloss and helpless help-less wage workers.'" The Rev. A. F. Toner, pastor of St. Marv's Catholic, church at McKoos Bocks, is quoted by Mr. Morrison as saying ihat "conditions under which Ih'fi' employes work and livo are such that they 'arc unfit for publication." |