Arizona republican., 1919-10-21
ULTRA RADICAL ACT|T|T|ESIN STEEL CENTERs
 TOLD BY |. W. W.
Senate Labor Committee Is Dazed by Wobbly Attor- ney's Delineation of Plan For Revolution by Radi- calls
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-While members of the senate labor committee Investigating the steel strike sat fairly dazed and dumbfounded, Jacob. Mar golis, of Pittsburg, I. W. W. attorney and admitted advocate of social revo- lution today told them a story of ultra radical activities which he said under lay and were associated with the na- tion- wide strike of steel workers.
 Even more remarkable to his hearers was the Pittsburg attorneys delinea- tion of partially successful attempt covering the past two years to fuse at Pittsburg, for ah unstated but vague ly hinted revolutionary purpose, the combined forces of the l. w. w., bol- sheviki and Russian industrial work CTS, whose imagination, he acknowl edged, had been caught by the sue cesses of Lenine and Trotzky in Rus sia. All were working, he told the committe calmly, ito create a new so- ciety within the shell of the old"
 Throughout Margolis' story ran the name of William z. Foster, secretary of the steel workers committee, to whom Chairman Kenyon of the labor com mittee forced a frequent recurrence by cross-examination in which dicta- graph records of telephone converse 
 lis correspondence and similar mat ters played large part. Margolis cooly classified himself as an anarchist syndicalist" in which capacity he had worked with and for the I. W. W. organization and 'Tol- stoian anarchist"
 Secretary Foster came into the tes- timony not so much as a radical agi- tator himself. but as seeker for help in conducting the industrial fight in the steel industry. Margolis told of a. union of Russian workmen" existing in and around Pittsburg. revolutionary in it's objects and said at Fosters re- quest or with his cognizance, he se- cured the indorsement of that organi- zatien for the steel strike.
 ''The Russians had a tri-state meet ing at Youngstown in August" Mar | golis explained. Tt was a delegate assembly. I went there and made a speech. asking them to indorse the strike and give it support. This they agreed to do"
 In letter to President Wilson, writ ten in connection with the calling of the steel strike, the strike committee had referred slightingly to the I. W. w., and Chairman Kenyon had tele- phone conversation record on this.
 ''Tell the boys not to get sore about that" Foster, at one end of a wire had told Margolis, T didn't have anything to do with that letter. You know I have to go with the committee most of the time"
 This language Margolis recognized and admitted having conveyed the | message of his associates. You see, officially, the strike com mfttee doesn't recognize me at all" Margolis explained to the senate com mittee. I'm personally non grata to them"
 "The I. ". W and the Russian bol- sheviki endorsed and insisted in the strike" he said after severe question ing by Senator Kenyon.
 He explained likewise that the Amer ican Federation of Labor was 'too narrow" and 'too lacking in vision to accomplish real progress for the workers.
 The Plumb plan for the operation of railroads by the employees and their purchase by the government, he said. was the first step towards the new future" While the soviet government in Russia, he classed as the most for ward looking creation on the globe, far better than anything in America l Margolis testimony practically com | pleted the committees examinations. though an executive session will be held tomorrow at which a definite de- l cision will be made