Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-27
C0MPERS PLACES BLAME ON GARY
 IN BIG STRIKE
Deadlock Continues in All Dis tricts With Neither Side
 Gaining.
NO DEVELOPMENTS AT
 MILLS BEFORE MONDAY
Corporation Heads Say They Look for q Big Influx of Men When the Whistles Blow
 Monday.
Chief developments of the fifth

Chief developments of the fifth day of the great strike were:
 l. Definition of the strike issue as the right of employees "to be heard. to organize and to have some voice in determining conditions un- der which they labor made by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, be- fore the senate labor committee in Washington.
 ?. Calling of a meeting of the strikers national committee in Pitts burgh today to make final arrange ments for the strike of 35,000 em- ployes of the Bethlehem Steel com- pany, set for Monday.
 3. Announcement that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., principal owner of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, will take no part in the strike of G. 900 workers at the Pueblo plant.
 4. Claim by union officials that workers in the Youngstown district, at a meeting held to vote on the question of returning to work, had decided against such move.
 5. Condemnation of foreign agi- tators' and commendation of Sher- if. William Haddock of Allegheny county by coroner's jury in Pitts burgh, which returned verdict of "death from gunshot wounds inflic- ted by persons unknown while an attack was being made on deputy sheriffs during a riot" in the case of woman organizer and striker whom the steel workers claimed had been murdered at West Natrona, Pa.
 6. Apparent deadlock, marked by lack of violence, apparently pre- vailing in the chief steel centers
 Washington. Sept 26.-The issue in the nation wide steel strike was de- fined today by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. as recognition of the right of emploves "to be heard. to organize and to have some voice in determin- ing conditions under which they la bor."
 Appearing as labor's second witt ness in the senate labor committees investigation of the steel strike, President Gompers drew from his experience as chairman of the first committee to organize the steel in- dustrv and traced the history of or ganized labor's effort to upioni7e the steel workers When he finished the committee adionrned until next We'd nesdav. at which time Judge Gary chairman of the United States Steel cornoration. has promised 10 appear.
 President Gompers condemned nn- snaringly civic authorities in the Western Pennsvlvania steel centers and reneated many Of the charoes made before the committee yesterday by John Fitzpatrick, chairman of the committee.
 Full resnonsihi'itv for the strike he laid a+ the door of Judge Garv, who could have stonped it. he said. bv oranting conference to the strike comrnittee
 Defends Foster.
 Counter charoes a"airst the steel workers. involvin" the revolu+ ;onarv Of William 2. Foster. strike committee s""retarv. i" parti- cular. was met hv Gomners with the assertion that Foster no longer was a s"rdicalst or believer in violence.
 There were several interlud"s once when Senator Phinns. republican of Colorado. read statements of Presi. dent Wilson. made in 1909. to the ef- feet that he was "a fierce portisar. of the onen shop." which brou~ht quick assertion from Gomners that "Presi- dent Wilson not does not hoad with what Doctor Wilson then said"
 Senator Sterling. republican Of South Dakota at another noint reaa some steel comnanv statistics. in ref erence to greatly increased pay of .~-~ s'. ~ -'- ~ --,-. ~.~ ~~.~>~~