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Show STEEL STRIKE IDS' SCORED B! COMMITTEE Federation Plan to Organize Workers Caused Walkout, Walk-out, Senate Body Holds. Gary Should Have Met the Men, Claim; U. S. Agency for Mediation Is Urged. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. Characterizing Character-izing all strikes as "industrial barbarism" barbar-ism" and declaring that "there is.no place in this country either for industrial indus-trial despotism or labor despotism, ' ' the. senate committee tFhich investigated investigat-ed the steel, strike today presented its report. The committee's main conclusion conclu-sion was expressed in the statement that the public has a right fo demand that capital shall not abrogate to itself the right to determine in its own way those industrial questions, and it is the same as to labor, and the duty is. upon congress to provide some way of ad-instirtc ad-instirtc thpsp difficulties. ' ' As a permanent Dreventive of strikes, which the committee concedes, "are apparently ap-parently the only way for labor to secure se-cure even its just demands if employers em-ployers refuse to grant them," it is recommended that congress authorize the ' establishment of such 'mediation agency with well defind powers as the recently dissolved war labor board. "This board would have the power of compulsory investigation, ' ' the report re-port adds on this subject, but "not to the extent of compulsory arbitration. A just decision of the board would be endorsed by the public. "There is good sense enough in the American people to bring about an adjustment ad-justment of these difficulties." The report was signed by Senator Kenyoiv of Iowa, chairman, and Senators Sena-tors Sterling, South Dakota; Phipps, Colorado; Republicans, and McKellar, Tennessee, and Walsh, Massachusetts, Democrats. Radicals Are Blamed. Treating of the causes of the strike, the committee in its report expressed the opinion that the walkout was precipitated pre-cipitated by the determination of the American Federation of Labor to organize or-ganize the steel industry. Wnges are not a factor in the strike, the committee com-mittee held, being high enough to give no reason for dissatisfaction. Hours of the workers, however, the senators believed, are too long. Further, behind the strike, the committee com-mittee found, was massed a "considerable "consider-able element'' of revolutionary radicalism, radi-calism, of which, it is said, there is no question but that William Z. Foster, secretary of the general strike committee, commit-tee, was a leader. With Jacob Margolis, Mar-golis, attorney for the T. W. V. and assistant iu organizing the strike, Secretary Sec-retary Foster came in for unsparing condemnation. Despite Foster 's partial disavowal of his former syndicalist doctrines, doc-trines, the committee failed to be convinced con-vinced that tho strike leader has had "little change of heart," but, on the contrary, "he' is now in the full heyday of his power."- "The laborers in the steel mills had a just complaint relative to the long hours of service on the part of some of them," said the committee. Right of Complaint. "They had the right to have the representatives rep-resentatives of their own choosing to i present grievances to the employers. Some members of the committee believe that such representatives ought not to be from outside the industry." With the system of working hours in the steel industry (he committee disagreed dis-agreed strongly, saying: "An eight-hour day with a living t wage that will enable men to support their families and bring up their children chil-dren accordiug to the standards of American life ought to be a cardinal part of our industrial policy, nnrl the sooner the principle is recognized the better it will be for the entire coun-trv." coun-trv." The report also dealt with the efforts of strike leaders to get Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, into a conference far enough to point out that committee members felt sympathy with the principle prin-ciple of collective bargaining, but did not believe the steel strikers had taken I the right roursc. "The representatives selected fori bargaining should be those who believe! in the principles of American government," govern-ment," the report said on this point. 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