New-York tribune., 1919-10-17
mo Justice in Pennsylvania, ,
Is Newest Battle Cry;
Attempt to Discredit
Authorities Is Charged
Sheriff Writes Senator
Haddock Attacks Methods
of Federal Officers in
Making Investigations
Staff Correspondence

Staff Correspondence
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16.-By attempt
ing to focus public opinion on their
newest battle cry. There is no justice
in Pennsylvania" and thereby divert
it from the real issues involved, the
leaders in the steel strike now hope to
win the battle that is virtually lost.
BY calling attention to alleged wrong
done the strikers in the Fannie Sell
the Maurer letter to Governor Sproul
and the judicial proceedings they have
instituted, the men who control the
destnies of the steel workers are seek
ing to infame public opinion in their
behalf.
James H. Mauer, president of the
State Federation of Labor, made public
to-day a long letter addressed by him
the incident of the Clarion meeting
and the conduct of the constabulary on
that occasion and enters into lengthy
arraignment Of the whole course of the
courts and police officers, burgesses
and shcriffs in reference to the strike
Sheriff Writes to Senator
Sheriff Haddock, Of Allegheny Coun-
t., wrote Senator W. S. Kenyon, chair
man Of the Senate Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor, answering the ale
cation made yesterday by j. G. Brown,
assistant to Secretary Foster, Of the
strike committee, that Fannie Sellens,
The labor agitator, had been shot again
after she had fallen from first shot,
which was in the back.
The Sheriff says that "the wound
found in Fannie Sellenss back when
the body was disinterred last Monday,
after being buried forty three days,
may or may not be a bullet wound. and
that whatever kind of an injury it was,
il was deliberately inflicted after the
official autopsy to discredit those in
authority"
The Sheriff continues:
Your attention is also respectfully
called to the methods pursued by
agents in the Department of Labor and
Department of Justice. who have heen
and are conducting investigations into
this occurrence. These investigators
come here at the behest of these agi-
tators openly charging regularly elect
ed and lawfully commissioned peace
officers with most outrageous conduct
for which there is not the slightest
/ foundation, and pursue their inquiries
any way but impartlally.
iNey usually IL not always seen out
the persons making the charges and
leave here with little else than manu-
factured evidence and leave behind
them trail Of anarchistic speeches
and newspaper publicity with which to
inAame the pcpulace.'
Strike Situation Unchanged
The general strike situation is about
the same as yesterday. The Pittsburgh
district mills continued to gain slowly
in personnel, the Monongahela Valley
mills Of the Carnegie company gaining
$50 men. Gradual gains in actrvity are
reported from the Mahoning Valley, in
Ohio, and there are indications the
Carnegie mills at Mingo junction viii
soon resume.
The. Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company is partly operating all de
partments except the rod and wire
mill The Brier Hill steel company is
operating five open hearth furnaces
one plate mill, the blooming mill anc
the coke department. The Carnegie
company is operating two blast fur
naces and three open hearths a
Youngstown.