Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-31 | Page 4 | Mine Strike Will Aid Steel Walkout

MINE STRIKE WILLAID WILL I IAm AD Am m STEEL WALKOUT I I Chairman of Strike Committee Com Corn Issues Statement 1 on Effects By Associated Press v PITTSBURG Pa Oct 31 A A statement statement state state- ment made by John Fitzpatrick chairman chairman chair chair- man of ot the national steel strike chair I committee com corn as to the effect of the threatened threatened threat threat- ened ened bituminous strike upon the steel I nd labor in g general was issued I at st steel el strike headquarters here fol following following fol- fol lowing lowing- Mr Fitzpatrick's departure fOl 1 for Chicago The statement follows coal strike comes it will l add I strength to the steel strike and to the I position of ot labor throughout the coun coun- I I try It will will mean mean labor has accepted the challenge of the big group of employers employers em em- who profiteered during the war warI I and who still are profiteering I They have a grip on the throat of the public and the They have defied labor the public and the government They have refused to deal I with labor in the steel Industry becauSe be be- cauSe they hopes there that they eat organized labor But In the coal Industry they are hopeless of ot de defeating defeating defeating de- de the older better tried So they get the government to try to force the coal miners to arbi arbi- is no good In the steel industry but its it's fine tine for the coal in in- in If It the miners strike a tremendous power Is added to the labor forces struggling to loosen the grip of ot ruthI ruthless ruthless ruth ruth- I less profiteers on labor and the public