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Show sTrike Fifth Week of Walkout of Steel Men Is Begun, MILLS ARE RUNNING Production Only Few Thousand Tons Under i ; Pre-War Record. i ' i PITTSBURG, Pa.. Oct. 20. With. both employers and union leadr? marking time, the steel strike situi-j itlon in the Pittsburg district was practically prac-tically unchanged today, the initial day I of the fifth w eek of ihe walkout. The only statement relative to the I strike came from the Carnegie St-el i company This y oozt'- declared '.hoj j Homestead works turned out 35.U00 tons of ingots U;st week, this being i only a few thousand tons under (he I 'record week of 1918, when production; 'was hastened because of the war. t he t statement added Other mills of the concern were said to be operating at i nearly 100 per cent capacity Senate Resumes Inquiry. WASHINGTON, Oct 20. Resuming ltt investigation of the steel strike. he senate labor committee today examined exam-ined lames Margolis of Pittsburg, who' 'said he was an attorney for the . W. W., and a "syndicalist anarchist." He refused to take oath, but made affirmation affirma-tion as to the truth of what the would tell the committee. "We want to have a pretty frank talk with you." Chairman Kenvon informed in-formed him. "as to whether the strike 'is a straight-forward labor movement for better wages and conditions or al demonstration of radicals who wish to establish B new governmental and ec- i onomic system." i Margolis said he had been oppose ! to war; that he would not advocate resistance re-sistance to an army invading the L'nlted States, and that he did not believe be-lieve in government. He told the senators sen-ators he would not resist a marauder ' ottV. n t xwl .v In Ik. Ki.. .. n uw namcu iu lurwir lulu, ui d . itack his wife, "The I. W. W have a plan slightly different from other unions," he said "Their object is to create a new society so-ciety within the shell of the old. They i are concerned with the daily Btruggle for better hours and wages and that I also we have the new orientation to ward social and economic change." j CHICAGO, Oct. 20. Conditions in the steel mills of the Chicago district jhave improved to such an extent thai j today, beginning the fifth week of the (Strike, production was 75 per cent of normal, according to company officials ! Union officials said their reports 1 ,-howed that inexperienced workers were attempting unsuccessfully to fill the places of ihe veterans of the industry in-dustry who remain on strike The force of federal troops sent to Gary two weeks ago was still further 1 reduced today. Only about 600 soldiers sol-diers remain at the Gary zone |