Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08
Radicals Denounced
and Deportation
for" Reds" Urged.
BOARD TO SETTLE
STRIKES is ASKED

6Otn industrial ana
Labor Despotisn Are
Warned Against.
Characterizing all strikes as indus
trial barbarism" and declaring that
there is no place in this country
either for industrial despotism or labor
despotism," the Senate committee au-
| fhorized to investigate the steel strike
| today presented a report covering its
hearings both in Washington and in
Pittsburgh, and criticising both the
workers and the employers in the con-
| troversy which resulted in at least par
! tial disruption of the steel industry.
/ The committee censured the steel
workers for not postponing the strike
at the request Of the President.
The refusal of the labor leaders.
who seem to have been the guiding
spirits of this strike, to accede to the
request of the President, even when
backed to a certain degree by the pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, lends weight to the idea that
radical leadership, instead Of conserva-
tive leadership was taking possession
says the report. I'VE regret that Mr..
Gompers did not take a firmer position
as to postponement"
Denounces Radical Element.
The report deals without gloves
with the radical element, the reds"
found to be prominent In the steel
| strike movement. A large percentage
| of the strikers are foreigners. the re-
port saya '-Th0se who come for the
purpose of stirring up trouble against
| this government and attempting to
| undermine 1T and overthrow it should
be escorted to the waters edge and
shipped back to the land from which
| they came" it continues.
The committees main conclusion.
| concurred in by all members. was ex-
pressed in the statement that the
| public has a right to demand that
| capital shall not arrogate to itself the
right to determine in it's own way
those Industrial questions, and 1t Is
the same as to labor. and the duty is
upon Congress to provide some way
Of adjusting these difficulties"
War Labor Board, Model.
AS permanent preventive OF
strikes which the committee comedies
ARE apparently the only way for Ia
, Dor to secure even it's just demands
If employers refuse to grant them,
| it is recommended that Congress au-
thorize the establishment OF some
such mediation agency with well de-
fined powers as the recently dissolved
war labor board.
This board would have the power
of compulsory investigation" the re-
to the extent of compulsory arbitra-
ton A Just decision of the board
would be Endorsed by the public.
There is good sense enough in the
H~ty, h.,
adjustment of these difficulties"
Committee members who conducted
the investigation were fairly unani-
nous in the report. though leaving
open points on which they could not
agree. The report was signed by
and Senators Sterling, South Dako-a:
Phipps, Colorado. republicans. and
NICK e1lar, Tennessee. and Walsh.
Massachusetts,. democrats
Four Other Recommendations.
Four other specific recommends
tions by the committee for 1egisla-
ton deal with the Americanization of
aliens who come to this country, the
naturalization within a given time OF
aliens or their deportation. a strin-
gent law to handle anarchists and
revolutionists. and a law to aid in
dustrial workers to own their own
homes.
Treating Of the causes of the strike,
the committee in its report expressed
the opinion that the walkout was
preoipitated by the determination of
the American Federation of Labor to
organize the steel industry. Wages
are not a factor in the strike, the
to give no reason for dissatisfaction.
Hours of the workers. however. the
senators believed, are too long.
Foster and Margolis Scored.
Further behind the strike. the COM
mittee found, was massed "a consideE
able element of revolutionary radS
icalism. of which it is said. there 8
no question but that William u
Foster. secretary of the general strike
committee, was a leader. With Jacob
Margolis, attorney for the !. w. w
and assistant in organizing the strike.
Secretary Foster came in for unspar-
ing condemnation. Despite Fosters
partial disavowal Of his former syn
dicalist doctrines, the committee fail
ed to be convinced that the strike
leader has had little change of
heart" but on the contrary he is
now in the full heydey of his power"
THE laborers in the steel mills had :
just complaint relative to the long
hours of services on the part of some
complaint heard by the company"
said the committee in summing up its
formal findings.
They had the right to have repre-
sentatfves of their own choosing pre-
sent grievances to the employers.
Some members of the committee be-
Iieve that more friendly relations
would be maintained between en-
ployer and employee IL the represen-
tatives who are chosen to present
grievances to the employers were
actually working in the industry and
that such representatives ought not
to be from outside the industry"
Disagree on Working Hours.
With the system Of working hours
in the steel industry the COMMITTEES
disagreed strongly. and cited as ana