New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-09
With Steel Companies Is
Accused of COnspiring
to Control Wages.
EAST YOUNGSTOWN
OFFICERS ASSAILED
No Proof of Any Foreign Gov
eminent Fomenting Labor
Trouble, Says Finding.

Youngstown, Ohio, March s.-The
Mahoning County Grand Jury to-day
ended spectacularly its investigation
Of the disastrous strike riots January
7 in East Young town. in which sew
eral persons were killed, by returning
indictments against Ebert II. Gary
chairman Of the United States Steel
Corporation, and against six big steel
companies
The indictments charge Gary. the
corporation of which he is the head,
enc of its subsidiaries and four indie
pendent steel concerns with conspir-
ing TO fix the wages Of labor and to
fix the price Of iron and steel products
IN Mahoning County in violation Of the
Valentine antitrust law.
Judge Gary has been indicted indi-
vidually," said County Prosecutor A.
VI. Henderson, because the evidence
laid before the grand jury tends 10
show that he is the dictator Of the
iron and steel industry in the United
States"
Combining in an unlawful trust" is
the condensed charge in the indictment
that names the Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Company, the Republic Iron and
Steel Company, the United States
steel Corporation. the Brier Hill Steel
Company, the Youngstown Iron and
Steel Company, the Carnegie Steel
Company and Ebert H. Gary
Secrecy covers the extent Of the evil
dence in the possession of Prosecutor
Henderson and the grand jury affect
ing the alleged agreement made be-
tween corporation and independent
companies to regulate wage and price
scales.
Company Officers Testified.
In naming Judge Gary as the "dic.
tatOr Of steel" Henderson declared
that he was the sole individual in
dicted, because 10 was necessary for
the grand jury 10 rely on information
furnished by officials of other COM
ranics. He refused, however, 10 make
public the names of steel men who had
testified.
Sixty-two separate counts are con.
tanned IN the indictment, which was re-
turned to-day in Judge ". S. Ander
representing day during the time
that has elapsed since the wage anC
price agreement is alleged TO have been
made.
The grand jury in its report e
the court sets forth that il was un
able to fix any particular cause for tn,
recent East Youngstown reign Of an
archy. The report fays Mayor w. II
Cunningham and members Of the East
Youngstown police force. saying tina
neither the Mayor nor any member oI
the police force made any effort what
ever TO dispense the mob.
Town Officials Denounced.
Mayor Cunningham L. criticised foi
not closing the saloons OF East Youngs
town early on Friday morning afteI
he had received notice of the temper
of the mob. The report says that H.
/ Mayor. council and 1olice officers O
4 East Youngstown were guilty Of suci
ineiliciency and disregard for the Law
as 10 De unfit and unworthy 10 I'll tht
positions which they hold.
I Guards on the sheet and tube com
/ pany bridge who fired into the crow,
assembled about the time Office hefOr,
the rioting began are censured. tn.
report says that the guards were not O
I the standard TO be trusted with suci
a responsible duty. The report con
tinues:
I'VE have been unable 10 find any
proof Of any direct connection with any
foreign government and any influence