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Show "BORERS FROM WITHIN." From tho beginning it has been known that tlio steel strike was precipitated pre-cipitated against tho wishes of ,the Kiir leaders of tho worker in that industry. And all along there has been a well-defined suspicion that behind the strike order was tho strength of dements antagonistic to American institutions, in-stitutions, anxious to make use of this industrial controversy to further their propaganda. Confirmation of this belief be-lief is found iu tho astounding admissions admis-sions of Jacob Margolia, of Pittsburg, for yours tho recognizee! attorney for tho radical elements in vrcstern Penn-Nylvaniu, Penn-Nylvaniu, himself au avowed and unblushing un-blushing believer in a social system uinicr which governments will not bo needed. Maryolis has testified beforo a senate sen-ate investigating commit tco that underlying under-lying the stocl btriko ia tho desire of the radicals to foster and strengthen revolutionary principles. XI o declares marked success has been had in undermining under-mining tho American Federation of Labor La-bor and turuiug it from conservatism to radicalism. S!.ju of revolutionary belief, be-lief, ho aays, have joined tho federation and other trade unions in order to bo-eome bo-eome bo. revs from within ' 'that is, they used their membership to propagate propa-gate Ueir radical doctrit.is. Their success suc-cess may be measured by this radical attorney's statement that of seventy striken called recently sixty-two have not been authorized by the American Kcdei-aliou of Labor. ' ' This, 1 ' Mar-golis Mar-golis continues, ' indicates a pronounced pro-nounced slato of dissatisfaction on tho part of workers affiliated with the federation.' fed-eration.' ' 1 1 does tliis and more. U exposes tlo machinations of destructive forces working within American labor organ i- 1 nations which, if not throttled, will spell disaster for the industrial -world. The American federation is faced with tho duty of purging its membership of in-"cendiarics in-"cendiarics and revolutionaries and emphasizing em-phasizing to the fullest ckgreo the Americanism it pronounced for at its Atlantic City convention. Quite as astonishing is the chargo made by Senator "Watson of Indiana in offering a resolution providing for an investigation of his accusations that tho federal trade commission's office in Chicago is a "center of sedition and auarcby ' and that employees of the commission havo been engaged in spreading radical propaganda. The Indiana In-diana senator also asserted that he is convinced that radicals are "solidly entrenched' in great numbers in tho offices of the government. "Victor Murdock of Kansas, acting chairman of the trade commission, has declared his readiness to cooperate in a searching investigation, in-vestigation, approving the resolution offered by Senator Watson, and suggesting- that it might properly be joined with Senator Sherman's resolution resolu-tion chargiug tho commission with "conspiracy and treasou." Watson's accusations are entirely "too serious to be referred to a commit teo and thero pigeonholed. Instead, they should be probed to tie bottom. Senator Sen-ator Gore s remark that the ' ' bolshe-vism bolshe-vism in the house and senate' should also bo made subjects of investigation is wido of tlie mark. Underlying tlio conditions which prompted both tho Margolis admissions and the YVjitson charges are symptoms of a disorder which threaten the very foundations of American institutions. It is a j 'parent that all of those concerned in this determined de-termined propaganda against t he republic re-public and its social and governmental systems are not alien agitators. Many of them are enjoying tho privileges of American citizenship. Expulsion of undesirable un-desirable aliens and the erection or j legislative barriers against their kind I peeking admission to the United States contemplates only a portion of the duty devolving upon our lawmakers if the security of the nation is to be safe- I guarded. |