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Show FOSTER CHARGE UNFAIR USAGE BY NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 Charging that he had not been falrlv fretted by the newspapers. William Z Fos'er. secretary of the steel strikers committee, com-mittee, told tbe senate committee Investigating In-vestigating the strike today that he would answer a question a to whether be waJ In favor of organized go rn ment If the correspondents were excluded ex-cluded from the room. The committor took no anion on the request and Senator McKHlar. Democrat. Demo-crat. Tennessee, and Chairman Kl By OH pressed for an SJSfWI It to the question, which had been put by the forcer. Fos I ter said his views had changed, hut 'that he was unwilling io say how far in 'he presence of the correspondents. When Senator McKella'- firs- asked hls question, Foster laughed The sen ' r tor then read from a book Foster said ! he had written which saiO social rOVO-' rOVO-' luution wus necesaury in the United States to secure workers' righ's. I "I have repudiated thai pamph'et," ;. aid Foster, "but 1 don't want my w ; bandied about by a lot oi prejudiced, lying newspapers to Ihe damage of the strikers." i Foster said his own Views had not I been used In the stcei strike; that he had adhered to the "principles of tradt I Unionism." He explained that he was raised In the slums and tnat when he' wrote th- book he was a "follower of the Spanish, French and Italian un- 1 .on system." Today, he added, he had 'become a little les3 radical potfVlbly," rand was a believer in American and English trade unioni.-m. I Reading from the pampulet on "syn idicallsm" a declaration saying thai I R I the wage earner proposes to ;gnor j I the code of ethics and wrest ftom th I capitalists the Industries they bav 1 I stolen and bring about the revolution j by the general strike " Senator McKel j la:- asked Foster if ho entertain ihose views now. I'll say I do not." Foster Id in i I lowered voice. |