| Show REPORT OF SE SENATORS CALLS ALL STRIKES INDUSTRY BARBARISM Steel Walkout Probe Result Announced ASHINGTON Nov 8 Char Char Characterizing W WASHINGTON j all strikes as industrial industrial industrial in barbarism and declaring declaring de de- claring Glaring that there Is no place e in this country either for industrial industrial indus indus- trial despotism or labor despotism th the e senate committee which inv investigated investigate the steel strike today presented its report re re- re port The committees committee's main conclusion was wa s expressed in the statement that th the e public has a right to demand that capital capital capi tal shall not arrogate to itself the rig right ht to determine in Its own way those Industrial in industrial industrial In- In questions and it is the same sam e as to labor and the duty Is upon congress congress con con- gress gross to provide some way of adjusting these difficulties MEDIATION AGENCY AGENCY As a permanent preventive of strikes which the committee concedes are apparently apparently ap- ap ap apparently I the only way for labor labo to secure se secure secure se- se cure even its Just demands if employers employ employ- ers era refuse to grant them It is re recommended recommended om- om mended that congress authorize th the e establishment of such mediation n agency with well defined powers as th the e recently dissolved war wat labor board This board would have the power o of f compulsory Investigation the report t adds on this subject but not to the extent of ot compulsory arbitration A Ajust I Just decision of the board would be in indorsed itt itt- by the public There is good sense enough in the American people to bring about an adjustment adjustment adjustment ad- ad ad ad- of these difficulties The report was signed by Senator Kenyon of Iowa chairman and Senators Senators Sena Sena- tors Sterling South Dakota Phipps Colorado Republicans and McKellar Tennessee and Walsh Massachusetts Democrats ts CAUSES OF STRIKE Treating of the causes of the strike the committee in its report expressed the opinion that the walkout was i precipitated by the determination of the American Federation of Labor to organize the steel industry Wages are not a factor in the strike th the tho committee held being high enough I to give no reason for dissatisfaction Hours flours of the workers however vever the senators believed are too long CONDEMN FOSTER Further behind the strike the committee committee committee com com- found was massed a n. considerable considerable considerable consid erable element clement of revolutionary radicalism radicalism radicalism radi radi- of which it is said there is no question but that William Z 2 Foster Foster Fos Fos- ter secretary of ot the general strike committee was a leader With Jacob Margolis attorney for the tho I. 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W and assistant in organizing the strike Secretary Foster came In for unsparing unsparing unsparing un un- sparing condemnation Despite Fosters Foster's partial disavowal Continued on pago page 2 2 REPORT OF SENATORS Continued from page 1 1 I I of f his former doctrines the failed to be convinced that I the strike leader has had little change of heart but on the contrary I r he he Is now now In the full tull heyday of ot his v i. i ower I HOURS OF LABOR I I The IThe laborers in the steel mills had I Just complaint relative to the long I J IB B hours of ot service on the tho part of some I I them said the committee 0 They had the right to have the J I 1 representatives of their own choosing to present grievances to to the em em- Some members of the committee committee committee com com- II believe that such representatives ought not to be from outside the industry SYSTEM OF HOURS WIth the system of ot working hours I the the steel industry the committee Disagreed strongly saying I j 1 iAn An hour eight-hour day with a living wage age that will enable men to support I hir l lr families and bring up their according to the standards of i I American life ought to be a cardinal part of our Industrial policy and the J sooner gopner er the prin principle is recognized the better it will be for tor the entire coun coun- try GARYS GARY'S PART Tho The report also dealt with the ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts of strike leaders to get Judge E. E II Gary chairman of the United States Steel corporation Into a conference conference conference con con- ference far tar enough to point out that committee members felt sympathy with the principle of collective bargaining bar bar- gaining but did not believe the steel strikers had taken the tho right course The representatives selected sele for bargaining would be those who be believe believe believe be- be lieve in the principles of American government the report said on this point Judge Gary could well have objected to receiving a mar man with the views of Mr Foster He did not put his refusal on that ground but rather put It on the ground that the tho men did not represent the though himself conceding that 10 to 15 per cent of 01 the men in the mills were probably unionized It seems to us that even this 10 or 15 per cent had the right to select their own representatives and present their grievances and that they should have been heard RADICAL LEADERS Testimony before the committee the report said sustained the contention of the steel companies that a large proportion of the strikers are foreigners foreigners foreigners for for- eigners or non-English non speaking people Touching on the subject of ot radicalism radicalism radicalism radi radi- in the strike the report said The committee e is of the opinion that the American Federation of Labor Labor La La- bor has made a serious mistake and has lost much favorable public opinion opinion opinion ion by permitting the leadership of this strike movement to pass into the hands of some who have heretofore entertained the most radical and dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- doctrines DANGEROUS MEN Such men says the report al alluding alluding at- at luding to Foster and Margolis are dangerous to the country and they are dangerous to the cau cause e of union labor It Is unfair for men who may be struggling for their rights to be represented represented represented rep rep- resented by such leaders If It Mr Foster has the real interest of the laboring man at heart he should re remove remove remove re- re move himself from tram any leadership If It I he will not remove himself from leadership the American Federation I of Labor should purge itself of such leadership in order to sustain the confidence the public has had In it H Hunder under the leadership of Mr Gompers In regard to the suppression of public meetings in the strike zones the committee observed that the I suppression of frank discussion only serves to accentuate a bad situation Officials ought not to be permitted to prevent men from me meeting to talk over their grievances and presenting to men their arguments In favor of ot Joining the union |
