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Show ernmenL commits suicidn, it will make no difference to any one whether industry is J bettor organized or not. Chaos will have : come again. "When industry is viewed as a cooperative coop-erative enterprise in production, it follows fol-lows that those who work with their hands, like thoso who work with t heir ( brains and those who work with their savings, are entitled to lake part in the I organization and direction of the indus- i try and to have a voice in determining ; the conditions under which their co- : operation shall be given and continued. "The strike," be continued, "is, at best, not a method of reasonableness, but a weapon of industrial war. and it ought, in time to become obsolet e with the submarine and the L-:ig Bertha." Referring to the steei strike, Mr. But-, ler said: "The ultimatums of M r. Fitzpatrlek and Mr. Foster were well -planned attacks upon t lie principles upon which ' the American people have rested t heir government, gov-ernment, their civilization and their life. The war that has been organized by Mr. Fitzpatrick and Air. Foster and the similar sim-ilar wars that were organized in Great Britain by Mr. Smillie and Mr. Thomas are many times more dangerous than the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia or the German imasion of Belgium." Three Plants Reopened. CHICAGO, Oct. 3. -Three steel plants, closed since the strike of steel workers three weeks ago, reopened today with approximately ap-proximately 50 per cent of a normal working force, according to reports from the police. The plants to reopen were the Wisconsin Steel company. Interstate Steel company and the Federal Furnace compan y. The situation at the plants of the Illinois Illi-nois Steel company was unchanged. Police reports said that 2"0 of the 500 employees of the Federal Furnace company com-pany returned to work and that 800 men reported for work at the Wisconsin Steel company. The normal force is said to be from 1800 to 2200. Two hundred men. according ac-cording to the police, reported for work at the- Interstate Steel company. Deny Censorship Report. "WASHINGTON". Oct. 13. Denial that a military censorship had been established estab-lished at Gary, lnd., where federal troops are on duty because- of the steel strike, was made in a telegram received at the war department today from Major-Gen-eral Wood, commanding the central department, de-partment, with headquarters at Chicago. "No press censorship has been established estab-lished at Gary," said the message. "Your advice probably due to misunderstanding of a request made to representatives of the press not to publish certain information infor-mation which would tend to complicate the military situation at Gary." WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. Strikes of railroad employees such as that' in the Altoona, Pennsylvania, yajds of the Pennsylvania railroad wero declared today to-day by General Mines as "creating the basis for the argument that it is nonsense non-sense to deal with labor organizations, hecause they will not obey their own rulers and therefore make the orderly handling of business impossible." The statement by the director general was made In a letter to P. M. Jewell, acting president of the i ailwav employees department de-partment of the American Federation of Pabor, in regard to the Altoona strike. Mr. Mines reiterated that the railroad, administration's policy was that no grievance of railroad employees could be considered while the workers involved remained on strike. SEES DANGER TO AMERICANISM IN INDUSTRIAL UNREST NEW' VOP.K. Ort. IS. Cooperation by labor in the n:anirement of Industry and profit-siiarinp were advocated as means of preventing the American form of government gov-ernment from enmmittinir suicide by Nichola.! Murray Eutler. president of Columbia Co-lumbia university, in an address tonight before tiie Institute of Arts and Sciences of the university. He st-atod the problem jib this: "Must the America n form of government commit com-mit suicide in order to pi ve to industry belter and more watis factory organization'.'" organiza-tion'.'" The question, lie aflded, answnred H-f-'-f. for, "if t i:e American form of pov- |