The sun., 1919-10-11
THREATEN STRIKE IN
ALL PENNSYLVANIA
Labor Leaders Call Two Con-
yentions in Pittsbuig to Use
powerful Weapon"
SAID TO "FACE A CRISIS"
Senator's Investigate Condi.
tons Among Steel Works
and Strikers.
Special Despatch to THE svs.

v Special Despatch to THE Sun.
p1rrsBuRG, Oct. 10.-A special meet
Eng of Pittsburg Central Labor Union.
.for such action as may then and there
be advised" was ordered called for Sun
,ylvania Federation of Labor was petit
toned to call a special convention to be
..eld In Pittsburg not later than Friday.
November 6, at a special meeting of the
central Labor Union held tonight in
Labor Temple.
A number OF speakers preached the
threat of general strike in Pittsburg, IL
rot throughout Pennsylvania, OF organ
lied labor in aid of the striking iron
snd steel workers.
: I'VE face crisis" Amos H. Maurer,
president OF the State Federation of
Labor, told the delegates, adding:
III the methods pursued by the Penn
sriyania authorities are permitted
10 continue. organized labor In this State
might as we'll quit. II workers cannot
ret the rights which guarantee them
freedom and fair chance in an indus
trial fight for the Improvement Of their
conditions there is nothing ahead but
serfdom or revolt. America wants
neither.
Don't deceive yourselves This fight
Il greater even than the contest to
.tmericanize the steel industry, great as
that is and necessar. as 1t is to the very
existence OF organized labor in the
United States.
Labor must win this fight for free
dom, for existence, or IL loses every
thing. We must boldly face the posi-
bilitv that our greatest, most powerful
weapon may be necessary.
we have for months used every de-
vice of appeal to every authority and
Today sees less of rights and more de-
liant and outrageous injustice than
when We began.
III the authorities of the State OF
Pennsylvania are determined to form
Themselves into a strike breaking or
carnations labor must accept the chal-
lenge and show its power"
Senators Arrive for Inquiry.
-Four United States Senators. Kenyon
Of Iowa. chairman: Phipps of Colorado,
Sterling Of South Dakota and Mcclellan
o. Tennessee, constituting sub-com-
lnttee OF the Senate Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor, brought the investi-
cation OF the great steel strike into the
heart OF the country's steel making cen
tie to-day. The Senators In ten hour
trip visited mills and interviewed COM
pany officials and strikers.
They went to the Carnegie Steel Com
r7ny's Homestead. Duquesne and Clarion
plants and to the National Tube works
in McKeesport.
The Impressions deduced after CONVEX
satIon with them were that with the
exception OF Clarion the strike had
failed to cripple seriously production in
the four places visited and that the
strikers contrary to testimony of steel
company officer3 taken in Washington.
have definite ideas of why they are
on strike.
Beginning tomorrow and continuing
over Sunday the committee will take
oral testimony.
A l,ieg. a... received by Senator Ken
ron late tonight from Senator Charles
Curtis of Kansas. one of the whips OF
the Republican party. saying that the
presence OF the Senatorial committee was
required in Washington on urgent pusi-
ness halted plans for visiting Youngs-
town and other steel towns outside the
Pttsburg district.
Senator Kenyon declared that the
PARTY would return to Washington Sun
day night.
The sight of United States Senators
clamboring up the porches of ramshackle
homes OF some OF the strikers or sur
rounded by groups Of strikers, taking
testimony on the spot, in the street,
Senate Shorthand reporter noting every
word, featured ne tour.