Show STEEL COPANY t AND ANDr r A r Probe of Strike a t l Scene of Alleged t tj a Abuses 7 X w JP 1 v By Associated Press g- g PITTSBURG Pa Par Oct 13 Se Senator Senator a j investigating the st steel l strike situation fon spent all of Sunday afternoon and afternoon n and most of Sunday night listening to t to evi evl evidence vl dence dente A big crowd flUng filling th t the e United States courtroom In th the federal federa l building had lad to be disciplined several times by Chairman K Kenyon nyon for laughIng la laughIng laugh laugh- g i Ing at some of the answers by witnesses witness witness- es Representatives of the strikers devoted devoted de devoted de- de voted their efforts to maintaining th the e charge that civil authorities st stet stale te troopers troop and other law officers were I misusing their power to break dew n the strike They centered most of tJi testimony around incidents in m the thet tow town wn n I of Monessen W Westmoreland cou county i and officials of the place demanded d I I and obtained from the committee per permission per permission I mission to be heard in defense f The United States Stales Steel corporation corporation was allowed to put on before the c com committee m n a group of old but lower p pa paid ld d who declared their satisfaction c tion tl m with conditions hours and wages wages WORKER 32 YEARS V r Arthur Raymont th the first of these said he lie had worked thirty rs in the mills raised a family of nine children bought a home and wi w wals snow s now drawing the highest pay he had ever ver received 43 cents an hour Youre a good manager manager Senator of Tennessee told him W Well VeIl we haven't gone gene hungry y yet t Raymont said sald and men dont don't work near so hard as as- the they the did when I started James Lloyd another veteran of ofas as many years of service said that he saw no reason why good sensible men should be striking now now C C. A Lighthill Light Light- hlll hill also a man manof of long service echoed his remarks and explained that he considered the 10 and h 12 hour 12 ur day a good thing Especially f for r young men he saidI saidI said I 1 saw that Samuel Gompers t told ld this committee e in Washington that the Steel teel company's hospitals were like Uke prisons where they h held ld men incommunicado u I think he said He s been badly badly informed I know liow because I spent some time in Hie hospital l last t tI fall and my mv wife was wag allowed to toile come I and even eat dinner with me the once or or twice STRIKE IS FAILING j Au August Mann superintendent of a wire plant at Donora followed the and said the strike was rapidly rapIdly rapidly rap rap- idly failing Out of men in in the the mill stayed out the first day It lt was called calIe c Mann declared Sir Since then have come back and more return rn e eer every er day Gus formerly employed in the National Tube company mull mill at McKeesport was the first striker called and asserted h hS he h had d be been n discharged discharged dis dis- charged for joining the union He was examined for some time by the committee committee committee com com- on the point tics charge having been denied by steel company representatives representatives on several se occasions but he stuck to his assertions saying saying that the foreman had given him the reason SOLDIER COMPLAINS George IJ E E. E Colson an ex x and an American followed him a whole broadside of or complaints to tomake tomake tomako make mako against the company compan I 1 pretty nearly had to go on my knees to the company to get a job back bade though I was one of the first fifty m men n nIn In Trance France he said Then they put me to work in a place where a man has hardly any chance for his life and where the grease and the heat ruin your shoes every week weel They l kept pt me loafing oat ng five months months- before they g gave VC me that No Im I'm on strike for eight hours more wages and safety first conditions c Then Attorney V W B D. Rubin representing representing representing the strike committee brought bought boughtin in Ina a battery of witnesses nearly all of whom used interpreters In part or or in Whole WOMAN DEFIES C COPS PS Mrs Irs Andrew Banks Bank with her husband husband hus hus- band was first called She weighed pounds and had been charged charge the pair pall said with defying a policeman with a club Released on 50 hand bond after alter being taken to jail when they appeared for trial the next day dav they were were e told their money moncy was foi forfeited felted The woman said she had her baby on her ann nn when arrested and had no club and had said nothing to the special po policeman po- po Now Mr Rubin Senator Walsh Interrupted this his hIs case ought to be followed fol followed followed fol- fol lowed and if It the abuse of these foreigners foreigners for for- eigners Is found to be what the they say Bay it is the tho community ought to straighten straight straight- en it out There may be another explanation explanation explanation ex ex- but the Impression ought not notto notto to Lo go out among these foreigners that our laws do not give them Justice HANGED FOR STRIKING Six Sic men all all Austrians testified that they hey had been arrested in Monessen l beI between be- be tween 6 and 6 30 in the morning by state sUte poll policemen emen and taken to jail that while there they had been asked if it they were going ba back to work had refused and then thou had hid been ben held under bail ball to 0 appear before a grand jury In In the lockup a policeman told them they were to bo be hanged at 8 o clock All protested pro pro- tested they had done nothing Tints common up in Monessen 1 William n Feeney a strike organizer broke in throwing men in jail every day for a mere pittance The committee adjourned at 11 p P. P m m. to meet in Washington at the call of Chairman Ch Kenyon |