New-York tribune., 1919-11-09
Senate Committee Probing
Steel Strike Urges Con.
gress TO Provide for a
Board of Nj diation
Alien Deportatiops Asked
Mills and Workers Both Are
Blamed: Shorter Day
and Teaching Favored

WASHINGTON, Nov 8.-Characteriz-
ing all strikes as industrial barbar-
ISM" and declaring that "there is no
place in this country either for in
dustrial despotism or labor despotism," 4"
the Senate committee authorized to in
vestigate the steel strike to-day pre-
scented a report covering its hearings
in Washington and in Pittsburgh and
criticiZing both the workers and the
employers in tho controversy which re-
suited in at least partial disruption Of
the steel industry
The committee summed up its find
lngs as follows:
That laborers in the steel mills had
just complaint relative to long hours
Of service, though wages were satis-
factory.
That they had the right 70 have rep
resentatives of their own choosing
present grievances to employers,
though possibly the representative
should come from the industry af-
fected
Reds Behind the Strike
That behind the strike there was
massed a considerable element of I.
W. W, anarc chsts, revolutionists and
Russian sovicts.
Remedies suggested by the commit
tee included:
That Congress establish a commits
sion somewhat Of the nature of the
War Labor Board, with wide powers,
though not with the power Of com
pu sory arbitration.
That an Americanization law be
passed acquiring the effective edu~
cation of foreign and native Hit
crates.
That Congress consider ways and
means Of extending aid to workmen
seeking to buy their own homes.
That naturalization laws be
amended SO as to provide for the
deportation Of aliens who fail to
learn English within FIVE years
Alien Legislation Urged
That Congress enact stringent leg
islatlon dealing with anarchists, rev
olu5ionists and "all who would de-
stroy the american government"
e comm tees man conclusion,
concurred n by al members. was ex-
pressed in the statement that "the
public ha, right to demand that
capital shall not arrogate to itself the
right to determine III its own way
those industria questions, and it is
lhc anne as to labor, and the duty is
OF adJu ting these difficulties"
As permanent preventive of strikes
which the committee comedies "are
apparently the only way for labor TO
secure oven its ju demands if en-
ployers refuse to grant them," it is
recom,.erdcd that Congress auth orize
the establishment of some mediation
agencl with we'll defined powers as the
recently dissolved Var Labor Board
Compulsory Investigation
"This board would have the power of
compulsory Investigation" the report
adds on this sub iect. but mot to the
cXton. of compulsory arb tration. A
Just decis.ca o. the board would be
indorsed ~ { pub 'c There is good
sense enough in the American people
to BRING about an adjustment of these
d tficullies -
Committee membcrs who conducted
rhe Investigation were fairly unani-
NOUS in the report though leaving
open poi rs on which they could not
agreo. The report was signed bv
senator Kenyon, Of Iowa, chairman and
Senators Sterling. South Dakota;
Pnipps Colorado, Republicans, and
Mcclellan. Tenne zee. and Walsh
Massachusetts,, Democrats.
Treating of tie causes of the strike
the committee in its report expressed
-0e op mon that the walk-out was pre-.
eipitated by the determination of the
American Federation Of Labor to or
gan2e the steel industry. Wages are
not factor in the strike. the commit
tee held, being high enough 10 give
no reason fer ssatisfaction Hours
Of the workers, however, the Senators
believed, are too long.
Find Revolutionary Radicasism
Further behind the, strike it was
ound was massed "a considerable ele
ment' Of revolutionary radicalism, OF
which it is said there is no question
an, thaa William l.. Foster secretary
of the general strike committee, was