The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-10-03
SAYS GARY
SOWS SEEDS
Of ANARCHY
Refusal TO Arbitrate Steel Strike
Is Denounced Before Senate
Committee by President of the
Workers Union.
WITNESS PUT OUT BY
TESTIMONY OF JUDGE
Says It Posters Doctrine That
There Is No Way Out Of Indus
trial Difficulties Except By De.
struction Of One Side.

WASHINGTON. Oct 3.--Tn refus.
ing to arbltrato the strike. Elbcrt n.
Gary, chairman of the board OF the
United States Steel corporation. lis
sowing the seeds OF anarcny." the
senate committee investigating the
strike was told today BY Michael r
Tlghc. president OF the Union. Iron.
Steel and Tin Workers today.
= was very much put out yester-
day BY Judge Oary's refusal to COM
promise or arbiirnte this issue snid
TiEhe. HE IN sowing the seeds u
anarchy; promoting the insidious doc
trlne that there n no way out OF In.
dustrial difficulties except b. the de-
s.ruction OF one side or the other.
fo-tcr uIl SinIhl.
CharF nE that he had not been fair
y treated hy the newspapers william
n. Foster. secretary - the steel
strikers committee. told The senate
committee that he wtuld not answer
question as 10 whether he was In
favor Of organized government n IN.
correspondents were not excluded
from the room
rhc cummittc. took NJ action on
the request and Senator Mckollur
democrat Tennessee, aud Chairman
krns ON, pressed for an answer to ;hc
question. which had been put by the
ANNNtfAH NHAfN NaAAN mr. NHfMN AlMN
changed. hut that he WAS unwilling o.
say how far IN the presence of the
correspondents.
when Senator McKeilar first asked
his question, Foster laughed The
senator then read FROM u nook which
Poster agreed he had written. declat-
ing social revolution necessary In the
United States to secure workers
righis
II have repudlated that pamphlet" :"
said Foster, but I don't want my
views banded about by a lot Of pre-
JUDGED lying newspa pers TO the DAM
age Of the strikers"
Views Have Ciutzgcd
Foster said his own views had not
been used IN the steel strike. that he
had adhered TO the principles Of
trade unioniSm.' lie explained tn a,
he was raised In the slums ana that
when he wrote the book he was "A
, follower Of the Spanish, French ana
Italian union system To-day. he added
he had become q little radical pos
Mnly.' and was ~ believer IN Amer
lean and English trade unlonism
Reading from the pamphlet on
"syndicalism' "A section saying that
The wage Garner proposes to ignore
the code Of ethics and wrest from the
capitalists the industries they have
stolen and bring about the revolution
hy the general strike" Senator NJ
kellar asked Foster Il he entertained
those views now.
"ill say do not" Foster said IN a
lowered voice.
Standing squarcly on his assertion
that the issue in the pcndiug strike
throughout the steel industry is tho
open shop. Judge Efhert ~ Gary
chairman OF the board OF the United
States Steel corporation. com pletcd
his testimony yesterday.
During colioquy with committee
members particularly senator Walsh
democrat OF Massachusetts. Judge
Gary fatty declared that he could not
now consider "a compromise or arbi-
trltion oT meet with strikers repre-
FrntatlNes
The senate hy resolution approved
the committees plan to carry its in
Ncstigntion to rittshurg aud other
steel centcrs after hearing William 2.
Foster secretary OF the strikers COM
mittee. and perhaps one or two other
leaders on that side of the con.
trnversy.
I'm sorry I can't take the position
TINT mcmbers OF this committee do"
Judge GARY said. in explaining his re-
rusai to Urbitratc the issue. Il con-
\ slider the puhlic's interest us para
\ mount In the refusal II the strike IL
lcft To follow It's inevitable course. II
"a certain vicious element in this
country gets no announcement to
continue calling strikes uf the kind.
. the situation VIII h" helpful In pre-
venting Industrial disturbances OF the
KIND everywhere in the country