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Show Only Hope Is to Quit Until Un-til Corporation Will ! Meet Them. COMMITTEE REPORT i Reasons of Judge Gary Based on False Premise. riTTSBt RG, Pa . Sept IS. Before re- I Bttmlns Ihelr discusaloii today on mat- j ters in connection with the steel work- ' crs' strike, railed for n-xt Monday, the. national committee for orqnnl::lng iron and steel workers issued' niii.n,eit thai, ha imp failed to obtain a conference confer-ence with the United States Steel corporation, cor-poration, the last and only hope If. to 1 strike until such time as tho corpora- j Hon will meet the representatives of the men The statement follows: "In his letter oj September 16 to tho presidents of the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel coropratlon. Judge Gary avers that he had twuj reasons rea-sons in ndnd When he refused to meet with the American Federation of Uauor i committee which called upon him recently re-cently requesting a conference for tho purpose of presenting grievances of bis employes "First, he did not believe that the committer was authorized to speak for la rue numbers of the employes. "Second. conference wtlb the com-I com-I mittee would have been treated by them I as a recognition of the 'closed shop' method of employment Gary on False Ground. "If the.e are the real reasons actuating actuat-ing Judge Gary, surely they are not sufficient lo plunge the industry into a great labor conflict Judge aGry presents pre-sents a false premise and then dcclin I that he will stand or fall upon this false ground. 'The committee that waited upon Judge Gary were the selected representatives representa-tives of the employes. And they requested re-quested a conference for the uprposo or establishing the principle of collective bargaining and some practical method of rcdrrsrdng grievances-Judge grievances-Judge Gary denied their authority to represent the employes and refused to meet them in conference. The only way left for the employes to convince Judge Gary that the committee does represent Ihe great lody of the employes of tho I nited States Steel corporation is to cease work until the corporation agrees to meet their representatives in conference. confer-ence. This the employes have decided to do on Monday morning, September -'2nd. YtP Compi !l" to Strike ' 1 1 is t nlortunato that tho umpltycs are compelled lo resort to a strike in I order to prove the authority of their se-lected se-lected representatives to present their I grievances. But as there is no other j way, the proof. In the form of a strike. will offeetuallv remove oil doubt In I Judge Gary's mind. In the second place Judge Gary acts up the question of 'tho closed shop" which has absolut. l no basis whatever in the present controversy, It Is simply sim-ply dragged In here by Judge Gary as a bugaboo to becloud the real issue. Only One Question at Issue 'There is one and only one question at I Issue and that Is the question of a conference. con-ference. The employes have exhausted evor avenue of approach to the corporation corpo-ration for the purpose at securing a conference con-ference and even avenue has been closed to them Their last and only hoep Is to strike and now the employes declare de-clare that thev will cease work on next Monday morning until such time as Uu corporation will meet their represent. 1 tlves in conference for the purpose of establishing es-tablishing humane and reasonable methods meth-ods of dealing with the crv Vital proh-' proh-' loins whi. Ii affect their live." their hon;- I and their future (Signed! "JOHN PITSSPATRICK. , "D. J. DAVIS. WILLIAM HAMMON. ' V. 7. FOSTER " Tie-up m Shipping ( Hlt'AiiO, Sept. 18. A lie-up of j : hipping on 'he Great Lances became I a nnirili' v tuda with, th annonjicjTi- rnent lhat the Sailors' I'nion of the (.re it Lakes was voting on a strike In sympathy with the strike of steel workers of the country called for September 21. Passage of the strike proposal, according to union officials, ).-. practically assured. The walkout would involve approximately approxi-mately 12,000 seamen, firemen and cooks, it was said The proposal authorizes the executive execu-tive committee to call a strike against vessels Of the Pittsburgh Steamsh.p company, said to be a subsidiary of t-,r I'nited Slates Steel corporation and other vessels operated by steel companies, The vote probably will be completed complet-ed by September 21, it was said, and I was intimated that the walkout would be called on September 22 in connection with the Bteel strike. The strike proposal provides for presentation of demands of the seamen sea-men at any Conferences between Bteel workers and the I'nited States Slerl corporation. These include n minimum living wage sufficient 10 enable Bailors Bail-ors to maintain family life; abolition of th- registration card system; recog nllion of the union and extension of the three watch system to include members of deck crews. The seamen nlso demand an eight-hour da in pi ri with rates for overtime and Sun;ay work in port. Postponement Advocated. PITTSP.CRG. Pa.. Sept. 18 With certain tones advocating a postponement postpone-ment of the proposed nation-wide - rtke of steel workers, scheduled to begin next Monday, until alter the in-! dustrial conference iu Washington.) October 6, the American Federation oi Labor national committee for organ-I izlng iron and steel workers went into session here again today. Mine Workers' Demand. CLEVELAND; o . Sept, 18. Extent of the wage increase to be demanded by the United Mine Workers of America Amer-ica in the conference with the operators opera-tors of the central competitive dis-Irii dis-Irii t at Buffalo, September 2".. has not be, ii formulated, but it will probab y mount to a 60 per cent raise. This demand, applying to miners of bituminous bitum-inous coal, corresponds to the demands de-mands formulated at the recenl irl-district irl-district convention of 'he anthracite miDers which have been endorsed by the com cntiou. |
