Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-21

Washington. Oct eo+WhiIe mem be-s Of the senate labor committee in veztigating the steel strike sat fairly 6axed and dumfounded. Jacob Mar coils Of Pittsburgh. l. w w at-orney and admitted advocate Of social reVo- l11s0r- today tcld them story or r-ltra-r46ic4l activities which he said Uzderlay and were associated with the r-tsor-wi5e strike of steel workers
 Hcxcs- more remarkable to his hearers x4S the Pittsburgh attorneys delinea- ton os z partially successful attempt covering the past two years to fuse al Pittsburgh for unstated but vaguely hi-l1ed revolutionary purpose <ae cOrn61led forces of the Industrial Russian industrial workers whose imagination he acknowledged. had Ieen caught by the successes of Lenlne and T-otsky in Russia All were 1y-. ito create . new society within the shell os t-le old
 Throughout Margoiis' story ran the rsAtre o1 William E. Poster. secretary e The steel strike committee, to whom Chairman Kenyon of the labor com Hnittef forced a frequent recurrence by e cross examination in which dicta- ==ph records of telephone converse tons, photographed copies of Marsoiis corres2oadence and similar matters rI4re6 . large part
 H@-go,iS cooliy classified himself as Sr -@-Rn2rcatSt srrdiczfis-, in ThSch capacity he had worked with and for tre I. W. W. organization. and "Toi- Stcian anarchist" CIovernm rents. he said will be o1 no use when proper industrial conditions are established. le nur + and these industrial condi- ti0rs- he predicted will be established when workers. organized along l. w. " lines. got ready to take over and cr~r4te industry for themselves more eficiently than private ownership Czr1-1 .i
 Secretary Poster came into the tes- 1lnory not so much as radical agi- -@-or himself but as a seeker for help in conducting the industrial fight in --c s-eel fadustry- Mz-Eplis told of a -Cnion Of Russian Worsmer" existing la and around Pfrts5urgf. revolution- zE- m it's objects. and said at Fosters request -nr4E1-h. his acogrtSzncs he se- cured the endorsement of that organ 1Eatf1n for the steel strike.
 The Russians had trt-state meet ing IT Youngstown in. August Mar Eo-1s explained Chairman Kenyon leading and suggesting Tt was a del eE&te assembly went there and made a speech. asking them to endorse the steel strike and give it support -rals they agreed to do--'
 In a letter to President Wilson, written in connection with the calling tee had referred slightingfy to the I. W w. and Chairman Kenyon had a tele- Dhore conversation record on this
 Ten the boys not to get sore about v 1 told Nfarrolis- T didn't have anything 10 do with that iette--Tou know I have 10 go with the committee most of the time"
 ssac admitted having conveyed the message 10 his associates
 You see officially. the strike con1- 1nttt-e doesn't recognise me at al." AfSrgOlis explained to the senate com rken-~
 The L w W and the Russian Bol- slseEik. endorsed and assisted in the s-rTke- he said. after severe question ing 5y Senator Kenyon
 He explained likewise that the American Federation of Labor was 100 narrow and too lacking in for the workers and tilereuDon Chair man Kenyon followed up the issue s-tich rhe committee has previously had 10 consider
 Isn't 1t true that Foster holds opiu- ions exactly similar to you. and has ~orse into the trades unions solely on the theory Of boring under and Dor 12E through and capturing the move -zert for s5rdiczlism 2'' the chairman
 NO. cont think Ie holds those opinions now. Aargolis replied -.He has become an ordinary trades union iSz- He believed. know. that he could retain his integrity 2 syndicalist, but the position into which he is forced a strike organizer now does not aI- low that He has not changed the American Federation of Labor organ ration; that organization has changed htn
 The Plumb plan for the operation Of railroads by the employees and their purchase by the government he said was -the first step towards the new future" while the soviet governme fin Russia he ciassed as the most for ward looking creation or the globe, far better than anything in America
 SiarEotzS' testimony practically com pleted the committees examination, al though an executive session will be held tomorrow al which q definite de- cis4OE will be made Mernb of the cornnt1ee expect to commence work on 6 report Immediately