Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-24

company WIFI smut uOWn the
plant for six months.
Washington, Sept. 24.-Congress is
inclined to view the steel strike as
the first skirmish in industrial war;
fare" possibly only the prelude to
tie lonv- talked of showdown" be-
tw cen capital and labor which many
have predicted would come in the
readjustment from war to peace.
The open statement by some of
the strike leaders that the strike is
the start of a movement to socialize
the basic industries of the country,
coupled with the fact that the rail-
way workers already have proposed,
in the so-called Plumb plan, to So
cialize the transportation highways,
is regarded in Congress as very Sig
nificant.
The pending resolution by Senator
Kenyon, Republican. Iowa, to have
the Senate Labor Committee investi-
gate the causes of the strike, hear
ing both Chairman Gary of the steel
corporation on behalf of capital and
Jchn j. Fitzpatrick. chairman of the
organization committee of the steel
workers in behalf of labor. is plan
ned to open up the whole situation
it possible "in behalf of the great
third party-the public" as the SEN
ator from Iowa himself explains it.
Fitzpatrick will be heard by the
committee tomorrow and Judge
Gary will be heard Wednesday, Oc-
tober l.
Foster Summoned
Charges made in the House by
Representative Cooper, Republican,
Ohio, that William u. Foster, sec
retary-treasurer of the steel strikers
organization committee, represents
radical union leadership and has
been active in l. w. w. propaganda,
will be investigated by the Senate
Labor Committee during it's inquiry
into the steel strike.
Chairman Kenyon said to-day that
Foster would be summoned before
the committee after John J. Fitz-
patrick, chairman of the strikers
committee has been heard. Fitz-
patrick telegraphed to-day that he
would be on hand tomorrow at the
opening of the inquiry. II. S. Rubin,
counsel for the strikers, may be
heard.
No change has been made in the
committees plan to hear Chairman
Gary of the United States Steel Cor
poration next Wednesday.
Chairman Kenyon to-day was ar
ranging for a large room for the
committees hearings, as large at
tendance of senators, representa-
i've nth in DO
pected. He hoped to obtain the
use of either the room where the
Peace Treaty hearings were held by
the Foreign Relations Committee, or
that in which the selective draft
drawings were held during the war.
Knox Speaks
In the course of the debate which
followed yesterday, Senator Knox, of
Pennsylvania, Said:-
II am not ordinarily in favor of
miscellaneous Investigations, and
where conditions are as they have
been suggested by number of SEN
ators, 1 think it is just as we'll as if
they were localized and are definite
and specific, to work themselves out.
But it seems to me if what we see
in the press is true, that there are
issues upon which a development of
facts in this case bears that are
much broader than the mere rem
edial legislation that might be passed
to regulate strikes.
II read in this mornings paper
that in certain of the larger, older
and better established mills in the
city of Pittsburgh and in its vicinity,
where now practically 100 per cent.
American labor is employed, that
there is TO strike.
Vs.nuhIa With ALIENS
"I saw it also stated that the prin-
cipal difficulty was with the Slavs
and other foreigners, for whom we
have been pouring out blood and
treasure in the last year and a half.
I do not vouch for the truth of these
statements but suppose it is true
that the Americans went to work
and that the foreigners, for whom
we have done so much, and for whom
we are asked to do so much. are
striking, why should we not ascertain
the fact as a basis for a policy that
this Government should pursue?
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