Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-11
SENATORS HAD BUSY DAY
 INVESTIGATING STEEL STRIKE

lnVeSllgatlnS the steel strike put in busy day in the Pittsburgh district, and viewed everything from the in- candescent metal in rolling mills to the culinary equipment in the homes of mill workers They discussed strike conditions with plant superintendents, and held informal caucuses with strikers in the back streets of Home stead and Clairton
 Chairman Kenyon said, they wanted to be sure and hear both sides. and volunteer and vOluble interpreters made it easy for the foregin- born ele- ments- among the strikers to get heard.
 At Homestead. just before the party arrived, there was exchange of shots between strikers and an armed workman, but the committee did not get up to the front in time to see any thing of the fracas.
 In the mills of the Carnegie com pany visited at Duquesne and Home stead, officials would concede that only a small number of men were on strike. At Clarion, however, the sena tors were told that 1.500 men out of 5000 normally employed remained out. the senators denied these claims and Tn polyglot fashion asserted that many thousands of men were missing from the scene of usual duties
 Chairman Kenyon at Homestead broke his party up into details of one, which resulted in each senator gather ing crowd running up into hundreds at almost every front porch where he stopped. Senator Sterling of South Dakota, with a cluster of youngsters hanging on his coattail, was taken into two or three houses in one block. while one man acting as usher would observe at each door: Here's the way some of Judge Gary's high paid help has to live.''
 Senator Kenyon called in a stenogra- pher to take down some statements made by Mrs Joseph Pentedi. wife of a husky Hungarian mill foreman, who had refused tc strike. She had been visited, she explained. by a committee pr strikers and urged to get her hus- band to stay away from work. Pen Ledl, rather shamefacedly. said that he had done so for couple of days
 because l was afraid and she was afraid"
 At Clairton. some hundreds of strik- CTS crowded around the senatorial party, under leadership of P. H. Gro- gan, secretary of local strike com nlttee- There was some expression of l wonder among the committee when | olaVs still unable to speak English ] gave their names as Joseph PoweIT' l and James Smith but the senators l 1nally accepted the names as an indi- | .ation of first step taken toward | America nization.
 What they wanted. the strikers ex- | ola1ned= were fewer hours of work and i nore wages They all held up their i
 
 Vho had contributed to Red Cross and Liberty bond funds during the war. 'ut when requeste dto give the same ign to indicate possession of natura1- zatlon papers, there was a noticeable alling off.
 Committeeman were keeping an eye pen all day as they rode through the teei districts for signs of the Penn viVanla state police It was not until
 D. m- that they finally ran across sergeant Pete Murphy. state trooper. t Mckeesport He was questioned by
 group.
 T don't think I've hurt aybondy." he aid, when introduced to his question: rs. but I've clubbed a few when I ad to-
 Tn the National Tube company plants t Mckeesport the committee found Ihat layman would considre full orce operation and the officials claim d that it was so. The strikers as | sual had a different version. but it 7as left for consideration later
 senator Kenyon announced that for lal hearings would be held here to- borrow and that he had taken occasion summon number of witnesses met urIng his tour of the district. Many 7orklngmen, both from the striking nd non-strlklng groups, will be heard, S well as officials and business men l rom the localities chiefly affected.
 While the senate committee occunied ne center or the stage today in the struggle. there was little hange in the general strike situation. 'ach side continued to express satfs- action with the progress of the strike
 A cablegram from British steel 7orkers wishing thes strikers success 'as given out today by the national ommittee of the organized workers was addressed to the Amalgamated ( ssociation of Iron. Steel and Tin Vorkers and was signed by officers of ne Iron and Steel Trades Confedera on. Federation of Blast Furnace Men nd the Amalgamated Iron and Steel sorkers of Scotland. and was as foI- ,ws: oi-
 "On behalf of 10000 British iror nd steel workers who already enjoy Il and more than you are asking for l I nd who through joint representation employers and workmen's organiza- ons have the most successful ma a1nery of industrial negotiation in the 'orld, we send warmest wishes for ' lccess of your fight on behalf of -orkers in American iron and steeI I ldustry. By the refusal of the renre en ntatives of the steel corporation to ( lbmft the dispute to arbitration the S 'rporation stands condemned" I n