The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
COMMITTEE
 |. TAXES TESTIMONY ALL DAY SUNDAY.
Testimony From Both Sides Is Given, Bringing Out Some Interesting Points
 on Conditions
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PittsburG, Pa. October 12.--sen-
 ators Investigating the steel strike situation spent all Of sunday Hr,-
 erncon and most of Sunday niRht listening ts evidence. A bis crowd,
 filling the United States court
 room iz the federal building, fol-
 lowed the unusual procedure and had to be disciplined several times lay Chairman kenyon for laughing at some sf the answers made by witnesses.
 Representatives of the strikers de- voted their efforts to maintaining tho charge, oftrepeated since the investi- Satiou began, that civil author tss, state troopers and other law officers were misusing their power to break dowh the strike.
 The United States Steel corporation again took a hand today and was al- lowed to put on before the committee a group of old. but lower-paid em- ployes, who declared their satisfaction With conditions, hours and wages.
 Arthur Raymont the first of these. said he had worked 33 years in the mills, raised q family of nine children, bought home and was now drawing the highest pay he had ever received, 43 cents hour.
 1pu lc EoUQ HldLaSGT, senator Mckellar of Tennessee told him.
 '. A. Lighthill. also man of Ions service, echoed his remarks and ex- claimed that he considered the 10 and l2 hours day a good thing. Espceia- ly for young men, he said Maybe after January. when everything soes dry it'll be different
 Il saw that Samuel Gompers told this committee in Washington that the steel companys hospitals were like prisons. where they held men int municado. 1 think he said. Hes snen badly informed 1 know, beca1 spent some time in the hospital M $ fall, and my wife. was allowed to rsiAss and even eat dinner with me ono twice.
 August Mann superintendent wire plant at Donora. followed employees and said the strike rapidly falling.
 The ''major proportionn of his Vasu, Mann said. had always wanted to He assured the committee that gFlex- ances made to superintendents by men in the mills was always couutenanced, and even encouraged
 X WOMAN'S STORY
 Mrs. Andrew Banks of the town of Monessen. With her husband was caiel. She weighed Ills pounds, and had n.Gn charged, the pair said. with defyiny Il policeman with . club. Released on Sc bond after beng taken to iail, when they Tappearad for erlal the next day. they were told that their money was forfete.i icy were Lithuaninhs,s but gase their ss+r2 clearly. Senator Walsh interrupted, atfis ease ought to be followed and if the abuse or these foreigners is found to he what they say 1t is the community ought to straghten it out. There may be anoeher explanation, but the impression ought not to go out among these foreigners that our laws do not give them Justice
 Why did you go on strike? Senator Sterling of South Dakota asked Banks.
 Because Judge Gary chairman of the steel corporation board of trustees) would not listen to our union representatives, he said promptly. He added that his only kick was on the long hours after Senator Sterling drew fro.u him the fact that he had been earning $s.45 day as brakeman in steel plant yard
 Six men, all Austrans. testified that they had been arrested Tn Monessen be- tween 6 and s:30 in the morning by state policemen and taken to jail, that while there they had been asked if they were going to go back to work, had refused and then had been held under $500 bail to appear before d grand jury In the lookup a policeman told them they were to be hanged at o'clock
 Miss Annie Bahinsky, Serbian, said she and woman companion ha been arrested by negroes deputized as sheriffs, and taken to jail, lecause some On c(ss yelled "scab" while they were walking down the street.