The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
What IL Behind the Hand That De.
mands the Olive Branch?

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mands the Olive Branch?
4 The issue raised by the promoters O
sthe threatened strike In the steel in
dustry should be made so plain tina
nobody can misunderstood it. TIL,
slist Of demands is padded with a few
specific allegations of grievances OF
sthe part Of the workers, all Of thes,
being readily susceptible of adjust
ment, If just cause there is, by the
ordinary process Of intercourse be
tween employed and employers. Com
plants about the length of the day
questions of reinstatement, scales OF
wages, physical examinations of ap
plicants and the like are only intended
Jas make weight matter to the state
sIlent Of the real purpose.
This main purpose is frankly ex
pressed in the eleventh of the twelve
demands; namely: abolition Of com
pany unions"
\ 1t is expressed in the declaration OF
JOHN FITZPATRICK, chairman of the
national committee organizing the iron
and steel workers, that unless GARY
Offers the olive branch the strike will
60 on as ordered"
y 1t Is expressed in the reply of Mr..
FITzPATRICK's committee to President
WILSON'S request for delay of action
until after his industrial conference
in early October. that 1t was not enough
for Judge GARY to be willing to dis.
cnss matters directly with the men
In the employ of his corporation be-
cause they needed trained represen-
tatlves in their behalf in presenting
their grievances"
1t Is expressed again In the state
ment Of Mr.. FITZPATRICK at Pittsburg
ON Thursday, reported by the CORE
spondent of our neighbor the Tribune,
that i've are going to socialize the
basic industries of the United States.
This is the beginning of the fight"
1t Is expressed in the remark at
tributed to one of the legal counsel
OF Mr.. FITZPATRIcK's committee that
''our slogan is No labor without rep
iesentation.' The revolution of '76
was for no taxation without repre-
sentation.' This slogan, by the way,
IS offered by outside talent to a body
# employees of whom probably Il, 900
IRE already stockholders in the cor
poratlon employing them, and conse-
quently in full possession Of the rep
resentation of ownership rights.
The purpose of the strike is ex-
pressed, finally, with even more start
ling distinctness, in the literature of
Industrial revolution published and
circulated from Chicago by WILLIAM
u. FOSTER secretary of the so-called
national committee now engaged in
organizing this proposed strike by
some of the best paid and most con-
slderately treated workmen in the
world. Mr.. FOSTER Is one of the four
organizers and agltators who signed
the committees rejoinder to Judge
GARY's letter to the presidents of the
United States Steel subsidiary cor
porations explaining once more why
he has no olive branch to offer to the
Grained representatives" of the sort
afforded by Mr.. FITZPATRICK and Mr..
FOSTER. In a pamphlet on the red
cover of which WILLIAM z. Fosters
name appears both as the Joint au-
thor and the sole publisher we find
an industrial revolution discussed and
described and predicted in the follow
ing terms of Bolshevik frenzy:
"The wages system is the most
brazen and gigantic robbery ever
perpetrated since the world began.
So disastrous are it's consequences on
the vast armies of slaves within its
tolls that It is threatening the very
existence of society. II society is
even to be perpetuated-to say moth
Ing OF being organized upon an equi-
table basis-the wages system must
be abolished, The thieves at present
in control OF the industries must be
stripped OF their booty and society
SO recognized that every individual
shall have free access to the social
means Of production. This social re-
organization will be a revolution.
Only after such a revolution will the
great inequalities OF modern society
disappear"
As to the method of removing the
great Inequalities of modern society
We nnd In Mr.. WILLIAM 2. Fosters
red pamphlet the subjolned discussion