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Show Chairman of Senate Committee Declares Half of Steel Strikers Are Illiterate Aliens, ' J Says It Is Imperative Duty of Congress to Enact Remedial Laws; Strike Drags Along. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. Arnericaniza- : tiou of foreigners should be an immediate effort of congress through legislation, declared de-clared Senator Kenyon of Iowa, chairman of tho senate labor committee, which returned re-turned today from an investigation of the .steel strike in the Pittsburg district. Asserting As-serting that about half of the steel workers work-ers are of foreign birth and cannot read, write or speak English, Senator Kenyon said one of the first aims of congress, as a result of the committee's inquiry should be Americanization legislation. In a formal statement issued late today, Senator Kenyon said: "1 do rot desire to discuss the steel str'ke, nor the reasons nor causes therefor there-for at this time. The committee has not as yrt completed its investigation. T think it permissible to say. however, that the commitlue returned from the Pittsburg Pitts-burg district strongly in favor of some Americanization bill. MUST STIMULATE AMERICAN SPIRIT. "I have thought for a long while that congress must do what it could to help stimulate Americanism. That is a common com-mon ground upon which we can stand, and is a rallying point for all. When you find that in some of these mills over 50 per cent of the workmen can not read, write or speak the American language; when it is necessary in these mill districts to publish orders in all kinds of language, it is time for tho American people, represented repre-sented by the American congress, to give determined consideration to some plan of affording these foreign citizens an opportunity op-portunity to learn what the institutions of America stand for and to become Americanized. We saw some young fellows fel-lows who had only a smattering of our tongue, who impressed us as splendid material out of which to make American citizens. "Two bills are now pending before the committee, of which i have the honor to be chairman, dealing with this question. Tho committee meets this week to take them up. and I earnestly hope that one or both of them may be reported out of the committee and may be passed by congress con-gress before adjournment. SAYS QUESTION IS VITAL TO NATION. "There is no gTeateriiiestion than that of Americanizing this nation of oars. Many of those who cannot speak our language lan-guage are yearning to know it and want the opportunity to learn about our institutions. insti-tutions. .Most of them have subscribed for Liberty bonds, but how can they know anything about American institutions institu-tions when they cannot speak America's language'.' We cannot reach a one-lan-guare nation overnight, but that eventually eventu-ally should be our goal. It will take some time, but the result u ill be worth, while, lor there is national solidarity in all people peo-ple of a nation speaking the same language. lan-guage. Eight and a half million people in this country over 10 years of age cannot can-not speak, read or write the American language. To the correction of that condition con-dition every citizen should resolve to do his part." URGE OVERTHROW OF TROOPS NOW PATROLLING GARY I I'HICAUO. Oct. J Coincident with I police reports that tliree steel plants in j tlio Chicago district reopened todac. word t'roin Gary. Intl.. announced the ireneral distribution of anonymous band-bills band-bills UfKing overthrow of the federal I troops stationed in that city, j Tbe handbills, found throughout the I downstown fiection of Gary, purported to bo "a proclamation of the anarchist j party of America," but were unsigned I "Great mass meetings" were advocated! i :ik a means of securing- control, j The radical pamphlets were distributed l as "a proclamation of the communist parly of America." The heading of the l proclamation was "The Capitalists Chal-j Chal-j leic'o You, Workmen." , The pamphlet declares thai the inuinci-Ipnl inuinci-Ipnl government of Gary, submitting to the control of Iho steel trust, had forbid-I forbid-I don the workingmon to hold public meet-! meet-! ings and parades and (hat for two weeks the workingmen had "permitted the sleel ! trust government to trample under foot 1 (Coutiiiucd on Pase 2. Column 2.) SHHTBB KEHYDH MYS (CouUnued From Page One.) the democratic rights which thoy had bcii so ofien assured were the heritage of l ho pi'nple of this country." "The national Kovornmcnl, the capitalistic capital-istic ptiite," tin pamphiet says, after tr-ll-iiiL: of the arrival of the troops, "had slopped in. The steel trust was in dan-per dan-per of ln'in.LC beaten. To save itself it hroupht into" the field the instrument forucd hv the capitalists to uphold their svsLcni of exploitation and oppression, the stale which in spite of ail i ! s. demoerat ic pretensions is hut the physical expression expres-sion of the dictatorship of the capitalistic classes." The pamphlet concludes: "Gather in great mass meetings. Bring to the at tent ion of the unenlightened workers the meaning' of martial law at Gurv; Show them that it is not enough to strike against low wages and bad working conditions, but that the strike j must be directed against capitalism. I 'The workers must capture the power of the state. They must wrest. from the capitalists the means through-.. which the ; capitalist rule is maintained. The answer to the dictatorship of the capitalists is the dictatorship of the workers." No disorders were reported from the , various steel centers in the district, although al-though labor leaders were said to have distributed several hundred additional Pickets in South Chicago, Gary and Indiana In-diana 1 larbor. Reports indicated the largest number of pickets gathered in the vicinity of the Wisconsin riteel company, of the International Inter-national Harvester company and Uie Inters! In-ters! are Steel and Iron company plants at South Chicago, both of which opened todav, after three weeks of idleness. Police Po-lice said approximately S-0 men returned to work at the Wisconsin plant, where the usual force is reported to be 1000, and that 200 men resumed operations at the Interstate, whitdi is said to employ 1 I 400 regularly. ! Approximately 50 per cent of the nor- i I mal working force also was reported by I i police when the Federal Furnaco com- j ! pany reopened. j l John Fitzpatrlek. chairman of the na- ; j tional committee for organization of steel , ! workers, declared he did not believe more i than u per cent of the men in the Gary i plant of the Untted States Steel corpora-! corpora-! tion had returned to work. I |