Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-19
STEEL WORKERS
SAY TO DELAY is
TO SURRENDER

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granted, were it not for the follow
ing facts:
/ Eleven Reasons.
81. Mr. Gary has asserted that
his men need no trained representa-
tives in their behalf in presenting
their grievance, Notwithstanding that
they can neither economically, by
lack of means, nor intelligently, by
lack of schooling, cope with him or
| his representatives.
"2. That, ever since the mea
started to organize, a systematic per-
secution was instituted, beginning
with discharge and ending with muir
der, recalling to us wildly the days
of Homestead and the reign of des.
potism in Russia.
"3. Through the efforts of the
representatives of the steel industry
officials in various localities have de-
MED the men free assembly and free
speech. Instances are too numer-
Gus where meetings have been sup
pressed men arrested, tried on various
unfounded charges, excessive bail re-
CURED and cruel punishment imposed,
all without warrant in law and JUS
tice.
"a. AS one Of many examples
in the city of McKeesport, meeting
held by the men within their consti-
tutional rights was broken up and
men arrested and thrown into Jail,
charged with riot and held to che
excessive bail of $4,000 each, while
one of the hirelings of the steel in
dustry, arrested for the murder of !,
woman speaker at Breckenridge,
Pennsylvania, is being held under
bail of but $4,000. Another patent
example is Hammond, Indiana, where
four defenseless union men were
charged upon and killed by hired
detectives of the steel industry, and
have been so inundated and NAL
treated that the truth of the killing
was suppressed.
IS. Guns and cannons have been
planted in mills, and highly charged
electric wires have been strung
around their premises.
"f. Armed men in large numbers
are going about intimidating not only
the workers, but everybody in many
communities who show the slightest
indication of sympathy with the men.
81. Men have been discharged in
increasingly large numbers day by
day. Threats and intimidation are
resorted to for the purpose of putting
the men in fear and prevent them
from the exercise of their own free
will, coerced into signing state
ments that they are not members
nor will become members Of any la
Dor organization and threatened with
exiction, blacklist, denial of credit
and starvation.
SO. That forced decline of the
market would be imposed, So as to
wipe out their holdings in stock,
which they were induced to purchase
in years past. Threats to move the
mills and to close them up Indefinite
ly.
SO. That an organized propagan-
da for villification of the American
Federation of Labor, spreading ru-
mors that the strike was delayed and
that such delay is only sell-out.
40. Showing no opposition to the
men joining dual organizations. As
result of this propaganda, the I. W.
w. is making rapid Roadway, in some
Of the districts.
al. That the real reason for OPP
position to organized labor represen-
tation on behalf Of the men who
have grievances is that the steel in
dustry is preparing to cut wages, and
to lower the standards to pre-war
times and to return to a condition
that encouraged the padrone system,
so prevalent in that particular indus
try.
Cannot Delay.
"Mr. President, delay is no longer
possible. We have tried to find way,
but cannot. We regret that for the
first time your call upon organized
labor cannot meet with favorable re-