The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-10-22
AMAZING PLOT
AT GOVERNMENT
STEEL STRIKE UNDERLATD
WITH Plans TO ESTAR-
LISH BOLSLEEIk
REGIME
THE PLOT Barred
Details Given to Senate lave5li-
eating Committee By !. ~. ".
Attorney ht Washing
ton

WASHINGTON, Oat 20 Utlc
members Of the Senate labor commi.
tee Investigating the s.oel STRIKE 1t
fairly dazed and dlmbfouIsd Ja.ob
Margolis Of Pittsbura T. ". r. at,
lorncy, and admitted ad,o a.e IL co.
cial revolution, today told them q
story Of ultra radical actviaea wGi .
he said undeflay and were aaa.iata
with the nationwide strike eci
workers.
Even nore remarkah!a .. be- near
ers was the Pttsburg attorney ds-
lincation of partially successful at
tempt covering the past two years O.
| fuse at Pittsburg for an uustate1 bu
vaguely hinted revolutiora-y plraos
the combined forces Of the Industrial
Workers Of the World, bolshevik nad
Russian industrial workers whose
imagination he admitted had been
caught ty the successes of Lei1iue
and Trotsky in Russia. An were work
ing, he told the committee calmly
ito create new society within the
shell Of the old. -
Fosters Name Promilc
Throughout Marcol1s story ran tho
name Of William 4. Foster, SECRETARY
of the steel strike committee, TO whom
Chairman Kenyon of the labor CONT
mitteo forced a frequent recurrence
by cross-e s-examination In viii Il tb,
dictagraph records Of telephone con
versation, photographed copies Of
Margolfs correspondence, and s.nil-
matter, played large part
Margolis coolly classified hiuse
as anarchist syndicalist, in whIe
capacity he had worked with q On
the l. w. w orga ization aad al
"Tolstoian anarchist
Governments, he said, WI be Of no
use, when proper Industrial cond
tions are established he nul It, au7
these Industrial conditions he predict
cI viii be established when worker
organized along J. W. W. lircs. got
ready to take over and operate ia
dustry for themselves, more cffieie g.
y than private ownership can"
Secured Russians Aid
Secretary Foster caUc iGl1 the te
timony net so much as radI Al ar5fl-
tor himself, but as a seeker f1r heir
in conducting the Industrial fcht ir
the steel industry Margols told Of
union Of Russian workmca exist
ing in and around PitJsbwr. revo-
in its objects. and said at
Fosters request or with his eosuiz-
lnce, he secured the Endorsement OF
hat organization for the steel STRIFE
"The Russians had q tli-state meet
ng at Youngstown in August" Mar
sois explained, Chairman Ecny3
cadiug and suegcytiag
1T was a delegate as assambly. 7 weut
here ard made a speech, asking ther
o indorse the steel strike aud give
{ support. This they a-rcad t. do
In a letter To- President Wilson
written IN connection with the calh4n
f the steel strike. the strike com
littce had referred sli-btirely T. tbs
W. W., and Chairman Kenyon bad
telephone conversation record on
his.
"Tell the boys not TO get sore about
hat Foster at one end Of the wire
ad told Marg,lis 81 ddu t. have
nything to do with chat letter. Yor
now | have to 60 with the committee
iost Of the time
Recognized Language
This language Ma-rul.s recognized
nd admitted having conveyed the
.cssagc to the committce.
"Hou see. officially the STRIKE COM
ittce doesn't recognize me ct ALL
arColjs explained to The Senate com
ittee. I'm persona non grata to
l~m.T
"The /. W. ". ana Russian bol he
j ndorsed and assisted in the STRIKE
: said, after severe qucslio. iae bg
s~ator kenyon.
He explained llkevis, that tSe
merican Federation of Labor WIS
10 narrow aud "too lackn- n,
sion, TO accomplish real progress
u the WORKERS. aad thereupoa Chalk
an Kenyon followed up the issues