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Show JX aft P Re A aft. A A aAi IH RUTHLESS MISUSE OF PGWER CHARGED ASWUIEWS Organizers Get Notice That Hil Meel btrike rlas rieen IH Called Off INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE DEMANDED BY UNION Workers To Be Built Up Into jH Strong Fighting Unit the IH Officials Declare PITTSBURG, Pa., Jan. 9 Organiz-ers, Organiz-ers, field workers and international H union heads interested in the nation-wide nation-wide strike of steel workers which fl went into effect September 22 were- in receipt of an official order today from H the national committee calling off the H This action was taken by the com- H mltcec here last night. The order de- clared that the committee's decision !was forced by "ruthless misuse of pow-ers" pow-ers" by the steel corporation, Uie H I press, the courts, federal troops, state J police and many public officials in that, they denied steel workers "their 1 rights 01 free speech and) free assem-' assem-' blage and the right to organize."' j The order added that the union will j launch an Immediate campaign to fur-1 fur-1 thcr organize the workers "and will not cease until industrial justice in the steel industry has been achieved." The strike in the steel mills and fur-' fur-' naces. called September 22, and which I at Its inception involved 3G7.000 men, ' was officially called off last night "by the national committee. The announcement was contained in a telegram aent to the headquarters of IH Jthe American Federation of Labor In jH ' Washington, to the heads of all inter-j inter-j national unions interested and to the jH organizers .and field men in-all strike j districts. The telegram was signed by John I Fitzpatrick, Chairman; D. J. Davi vice president of the Amalgamated 'Association of Iron, Steel and Ti" Workers; Edward J. Evans, interna tional union of Machinists, and Wil-liam Wil-liam Z. Foster, secretary of the com To Redouble Efforts. Mr. Fitzpatrick declined to discuss the action of the committee but Sccre-tary Sccre-tary Foster said: 'The striko has encouraged Iho 3teel trade unions' to redouble then efforts. It has been proved that the men in the steel industry can be or-ganizcd or-ganizcd and they have secured the con-fidence con-fidence of men in other unions." Tho offices of the committee here will bo maintained for about a month, while tlie business of the strike is be-ing be-ing wound up, and the commissary de-partmcnt de-partmcnt will continue to look after needy former strikers and their 'ami-lies 'ami-lies until the men have obtained em-;ployment. em-;ployment. When this work is done, Mr. Foster said, offices for the orga-nization orga-nization of the steel trades will bn opened here. Plans for this work, Mr. Foster said, have already been formed and Includo meetings in steel towns, publication of I a bulletin with a circulation of 150,000 ' weekly, and personal canvass among the men. IH Review of Strike. jJ Reviewing the strike, Mr. Foster said that it had its inception a St. Paul, in 191S, and he was called in as jfl secretary of tho committee then form-ed form-ed to organize the steel tradeif. All IH preliminary work was compleTed and the striko called September 22, last. jH Nine states were affected and 367,000 quit work. Steel company executives said they were not surprised tha. the IH strike had been called off, as tho IH strikers have been drifting back to work for several months. Many mills, 1 it was added, had long ago been able to operate full time with full forces, 1 the principal troublo being the lack of common labor, which formed the back-bone back-bone of the strike. Fester Resigns. William Z. Foster later announced his resignation as secretary-treasurer of tho strike committee and said he iH would be succeeded by J. G. Brown of iH Everett, Wash,, former president of the Timber Workers' International union, and one of his chief assistants during the strike Brown Is to assume .office February 1. iH |