The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-08
GALL STRIKES INDUSTRIAL
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 Committee members Avho conduct ed the Investigation were fairly
 unanimous in the report, though leav- ing open points on which they could not agree. The report was signed by Senator Kenyon of Iowa, chairman, and Senators Sterling, South Dakota; Phipps, Colorado, Republicans; and McKellar, Tennessee, and Walsh, Massachusetts Democrats.
 Treating of the causes of the strike, -he committee report expressed the opinion that the waIkout was pre- ctpitated by the determination of the American Federation of Labor to or ganize the steel industry. Wages are not a factor in tl-e strike, the com m3ttee held, being high enough to give no reason for dissatisfaction. Hours of the workers, however, the Senators believed are too long.
 Further behind the strike, the com mlttee found, was massed "a consid eraIble element of revolutionary rad lcalisn of which it is said, there is no question that William z. Foster, sec retary of the General Strike Commit tee, was a leader. With Jacob Mar golis, attorney for the l. ". W. and assistant in organizing the strike. Secretary Foster came in for unspar- ing condemnation. Despite Fosters partial disavowal of his former syn &dicatst doctrines, the committee failed to be convinced that the strike leaders had a little change Of heart. but on the contrary he is now in the full heyday Of his powef'
 The laborers in the steel mills had a just complaint relative to the long hours of service on the part of sorn- Np II, sS-- complaint heard by the company" said the committee in summing up it's formal findings.
 They had the right to have repre- sentatiyes of their own choosing pre- sent grievances to the employers. Some members of the committee be- lieve that more friendly relations would be maintained between em- ployer and emp1oye if the representa- tives who are chosen to present griev- ances to the employers were actually in the industry and that such representative ought not to be from outside the industry
 With the system of working hours in the steel industry. the committee disagreed strongly, citing as one ob- jectionthereto-to the existence of large numbers of non-English speak ing workers in the mills who should be given opportunity to become Amer icanized.
 "We believe that a large majority of the men actually working in the mill work 10 and 12 hours a day." the report said.
 "AIen cannot work 1 0 and 2 hours 3 day and attend classes in night schools An eight hour day with a living wage that will enable men to support their families and bring up their children according to the stand ards of American life ought to be a cardinal part of our industrial policy. l md the sooner the principle is recog- aized the better it will be for the en- i ire country"
 sketehing briefly the history of the steel strike, the report dealt with the efforts of strike leaders to get Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the '. S. 1 steel Corporation, into conference | ar enough to point out that com | n1ttee members felt sympathy with l ne principle of collective bargaining 1 put did not believe the steel strikers 1 lad taken the right course.
 The representatives selected (for 1 'argaining) should be those who be- ] ieve in the principles of American government" the report said on this point. Judge Gary could well have i ''IeCIeu to TecelFlng man with the jews of Mir. Foster. He did not put lis refusal on that ground, but rather ut it on the ground that the men lid no represent the employees. hough himself conceding that ten to fifteen per cent. of the men in the mills were probably unionized It eems to us that even this ten or if cen per cent. had the right to select heir own representatives and present heir grievances, and that they should iave been heard"