The labor world., 1919-12-06
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(By MARY HEATON MORE

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 4.--The steel
strike begins Its tenth week with the
men standing like a stone wall and a
desperate attempt on the part OF the
companies to open the mills.
Their latest device is to remove the
leaders by mob violence. Youngstown
is the spot where they are working
up this sort of public sentiment" at
present. During the week, J. e. Mo
Cadden; the local secretary for the
national committee, has been receiv-
ing menacing black hand letters which
threatened his life The papers have
been giving prominence to a circular
going around among the merchants
which petitions the authorities to
make the organizers leave the city.
AS a part of this. offensive, J. e. Nc
Cadden, John Klinsky, and Frank
Kurowski,' were arrested Saturday
evening on the charge Of criminal
syIadicalisn,' under new law just
passed in Ohio. ;.
80: Arrest to Give Color.
This arrest is to give color to the
impression that McCadden is danger
ous to the community. He has been
living in Youngstown' for months and
speaking daily, but it was not until the
bright sthought@ occurred to the steel
companies that by fair means or foul
they should remove the leaders that
any exception was taken to what he
said to strikers. :
Everyone knows that McCadden is
: an A. F. Of l.. man of the old school,
and would be as likely to- be found
preaching syndicalism as President
Gompers to-: repeat the preamble of
the l.>W. w. for m morning prayers. But
any: excuse is good enough when one
is trying to stir up the white Guard''
element of the community.
This element is composed of all the
enemies Of labor. the short-sighted
merchants who do not see that their
prosperity and labor's: is identical
but who would rather make a dollar
today>than $40 tomorrow. The Amer
,ican legion which has been sduped into
| thinking that the strikers are, DANGER
Gus foreigners-all these are being
made to focus their attention on the
dangerous syndicalist," Mr.. McCad-
den-made dangerous over night by
the. steel companies who go around
with bucket Of paint, painting
red double crosses wherever they find
an organizer doing especially effective
work.
Started Twi Weeks Ago.
The persecution of the leaders and
organizers tarted two weeks ago in
Johnstown when Foster was escorted
to the train, a gun pressed to his ribs
by the se1f-styled "citizens' commit
tee' Of vigilantes, and the organizers
bounded out Of town. Next, the Amer
lean legion tried to prevent Fosters
speaking in Wheeling, but failed. The
general idea seems to be- that once
you move the organizers, the strike
will be over
From Pueblo, Colorado, cones the
word that the "back to work organiz-
alton" Of the company is going tt
"get rid" Of the men of the national
corllnittee-the lawless White Guard
elements is as wide as the land. All
their attempts are doing is to demon
strate over again that this strike is q
strike Of: the rank and file. Remov.
ing an organizer or two and blowing
a big whistle, did not start the Cam.
bria mills in Johnstown. Shutting
up organizers, shuts the mills dow1
tighter. These prosecutions in Pueblo
and Johnstown and Youngstown ane
other places. merely stiffens the NOR
ale of the men: These things do no
injure the strike: 1t is the country a;
= large which suffers, when mob VIC
+ lence becomes. organized. TO set i
yapping on the trail of organized labo
is to turn a serious situation into ,
sinister one, =: