Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-02
GARY DECL. ARES
 HE WILL, NEVER
 YIELD T0L.ABOR
Question of the Open Shop Sole Issue in Strike, He
 Says.
SAYS THE ORGANIZERS
 COMPELLED WALKOJTT
Employe of Corporation Calls Fitz. patrick and Foster Buccaneers Who Are Trying to Scuttle
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 ! Washington, Oct. l.-Declarinp that the question of the open shop the right of a man to work, irespec. tive of whether he was a member of q labor union, was the sole issue in the nationwide steel strike, Judge Ebert Ii. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation told the senate committee investigat- ing the strike today, that his corpora tlon would never yield. Even now. he said, the strike is failing.
 There was no reason for this 1 strike" said Mr. Gary. "The men did not want it. It was forced on them or the outside, but the organizers of labor unions. The open shop is the question here-the right to brine about fullest production with only the interests of the employe, the employ CT and the public in sight" Labor leaders, he told the conn., mlttee, were seeking to unionize all industry in the country. Should their efforts be successful, he asserted in- dustrlal decay would follow.
 Tt means the condition I fear Enp- land is in today" he added "though nave hopes she will come out of it. , Buccaneers, He Says.
 MT. Gary had not concluded his testimony tonight and vii be exam med again tomorrow. He gave way for an hour today to several emp]ovns of the corporation's mills who told the committee they knew of no reason for the strike All agreed that the men who voluntarily responded to the strike call were mostly foreigners and one of them, John J. Martin, a Youngstown machinist. attacked the leaders of the national steel workers committee.
 :" lthink John Fitzpatrick (chair- man of the workers committed with w. 4, Poster, as assistant, are head Ing a band of buccaneers who will overthrow this government if they are not stopped" said Martin, who explained that he himself formerly was a union man. They were en- eaged. he said, in "scuttling the American Federation of Labor.
 Martin testified that the steel em- ployes at Youngstown American and foreigners alike. had been terrorized bv threats to burn houses and kill children. '''
 MT. Gary also said in the course of ms testimony that The companv had much "hearsay evidence" that such threats had been made aaginst men who would not join in tho strike.
 Says Salaries High.
 ~, Denying that the United States Steel cornoration had mistreated it's men, as charped bv union labor lead CTS, Gary told the senate commit tee Investigating the steel strike to- day that in his opinion there was no basic industry in the world which had paid larger wages than his com panv.
 "It has been stated before this committee." said Judge Gary. "that the steel companies have been guilty ct i'll treatment of their employees. Some statements have been made on m,s,nformatior and some absolutely without foundation.
 .| wish to state. MT. Chairman. that there is no basic industry in this country nor in the world. in my oninion. which has paid larger wages that the United States Steel corpor- ation. and perhaps not as large nor has treated their emploves in ereat CT respect and consideration, if as great"
 "It has been charped that during the pendino strike the subsidiary connanies have been guilty of at. tack'ne and mistreatino employees. "rhere isn't vnstioe of truth in that statement. Photographs were disnlaved horo and if was said woman was killed. This photopraph has bH"n posted all ovnr America, with a line over it Mrs. Fannie Slel- 'ns' hodv "houlishlv mistreatnd by the steel trust fiendish crew."
 "She was shot at Rrecnsenriden, Pa. We have no worlse there. no mon there. If che was killed. it was without even the knowledoe of the steel corporation or any of it's en- ploves."
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