New Britain herald., 1919-11-08

 vestigate the steel strike today pre- sented a report covering it's hearings both in Washington and in Pittsburgh and criticizing both the workers and the employers.
 Duty Is Upon Congress.
 The committees main conclusion, concurred in by all members, was that ''the public has 8 right to demand that capital shall not arrogate to itself the right to determine in it's own way those industrial questions and it is the same as to labor, and the duty is upon congress to provide some way of ad- justing these difficulties"
 Mediation Board Needed.
 As a permanent preventive of strikes, which the committee comedies, "are apparently the only way for labor to secure even it's just demands if em- ployers refuse to grant them,o it is recommended that congress authorize the establishme ent of some such media ton agency with well defined powers as the recently dissolved War labor board
 Powers of Agency.
 This board would have, the power Of compulsory investigation, the re- port adds on this subject, but ''nOtato the extent of compulsory arbitration A just decision of the board would be endorsed by the public. There is good sense enough in the American people to bring about an adjustment of these difficulties'
 Those Signing Report.
 Committee members who conducted the investigation were fairly unani- nous in the report though leaving open points on which they could not agree. The report was signed by Sen ator Kenyon of Iowa, chairman, and Senators Sterling, South Dakota; Phipps, Colorado, republicans, and Mckellar, Tennessee, and Walsh, Mas sachusetts democrats.
 \. F. of l.. Is Blamed.
 Treating of the causes of the strike. the committee report expressed the opiniCn that the walkout was precipi- tated by the determination of the American Federation of Labor to or ganize the steel industry. Wages are not a factor in the strike, the commit tee held, being high enough to give no reason for dissatisfaction. Hours of
 
 lieved are too long.
 Secs Revolutionary Trend.
 Further behind the strike, the com mittee found was maSsed "a consid- erable element of revolutionary radi calism, of which it is said, there is no question that William E. Foster. sec retary of the general strike commit tee, was leader. With Jacob Margolis.
  ant in organizing the strike, Secretary Foster came in for unsparing con- demnation. Despite Fosters partial disavoWal of his former syndicalst doctrines, the committee failed to be convinced that the strike leader has had "a little change of heart but OH the contrary. ''he is now in the full heyday of his power"
 Workers Had Just Complaint.
 ''The laborers in the steel mills had a just complaint relative to the long hours of service on the part of some of them and the right to have that complaint heard by the companv." said the committee in summing up it's formal findings.
 They had the right to have repre- sentatives of their own choosing pres ent grievances to the employers. Some members of the committee believe that more friendly relations would be maintained between employer and employe if the representatives who are chosen to present grievances to the employers were actually working in the industry and that such repre- sentatives ought not be from outside the industry.'
 With the system of working hours in the steel industry. the committee disagreed strongly. citing as one ob- jection thereto to the existence of large numbers of non- English speak ing workers in the mills who should ---- lCOntinued on Third pae