New-York tribune., 1919-10-10
committee Of six as merely an effort to
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SoihIu'ttee OF SIX as merely an EFFORT to
salvage something out Of dens-kt: ="
II Judge Gary acts as gould
have him act he will rejec, the Com
pers proposal. This strike, .ney say,
is the sort that ought te bs beaten
Internationally. They thir&. too, that
ITS complete defeat will have salutary
effect all along the industrial line.
Five members of the Senate Com
mittee on Labor and Education will
arrive here tomorrow morning to con-
tinue their Investigation Of the steel
strike. They are Senator'S w. S. Ken
yon. chairman; David |. Walsh, L. c..
Phipps, Thomas Sterling and X. C.
Mcclellan. They will devote tomorrow
to visits to the mills and will take
testimony-Saturday and Sunday. Mon
day will be spent at Youngstown.
The national committee of the strik-
ers is preparing to overwhelm the
Senators with data regarding the
manner in which the state constabulary
and local authorities have put the lid
on strike activities and clamped 1t
down. They will attempt to show
that they have had to fight the state
and local governments as we'll as the
steel companies.
Strikers Grow Worried
The strike committee made the
usual claims to-day that their men are
standing fast and that the mills are
operating under such handicaps that
all the strikers have to do to put them
out of business is to stand pat. Never
theless the strikers seem to be wor-
ried over the progress the mills are
making even where the strikers are
standing firmly, for to-day they dis
tributed among their followers q bull
letin explaining "why the scabs can't
win in the fight" which is in part as
follows:
"The steel strike is the biggest strike
in the history Of the United States. It
is so big that scabs cannot break it.
The steel companies can't find scabs
enough in the country. Not one work
ing man in a hundred is willing to
scab, because to scab is to join the
bosses against the workers.
"In the steel strike there are about
$4,000 men out If these men were
all in one place with their families
it would make city of nearly 1000,
600 people-as many as in the entire
CITY of Philadelphia.
"The steel companies can't win by
scabs, and they know it. In few places
they are bringing ina dozen scabs or SO
to try to do some work to discourage
the strikers. The companies know they
cannot make one-tenth Of the steel
which this country must have unless
the strikers go back to work.
"The country must have steel. The
steel which must be made can't be made
until the strikers go bacq to work"
Have Handled s1.O00,O00
Rumors emanating from within the
strikers ranks are to the effect that the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor, which met with
the committee Of twenty-four in Wash
ington Monday, and is still in session.
has by no means met the financial de-
mands of the strike leaders. Accord
ing to these rumors the twenty-four
unions represented on the committee
have been putting up $4,000 a month
each for the expenses of the commit.
tee, and between those contributions
and the 81 the committee has received
from each initiation fee during the or
ganization campaign, it has had about
S10OO,O00 to date.
The different unions are said to be
manifesting more interest in an ac-
counting for this sum than they are in
making further contributions. From
the same sources comes a rumor saying
that the A. F. of L: executive council is
greatly interested in a search for a way
out of the steel strike embroglio, but
is fearful Of the effect on the radicals
of any lukewarmness in supporting the
strlks. ,s.s t.
Two Shot in Donora Riot
At Donora this morning ss negros
employed in the mills there were en-
tering the works they were assailed
by a crowd Of foreigners who threw
bricks and stones at them and fired
reyolvers shots. The negroes replied
in kind. The state police then arrived
on the scene and the attackers fed,
leaving behind two men wounded by
bullets and number badly clubbed.
numer OF the negroes were bruised,
but none we're shot. The strikers have
8 particular ntipathy for the negroes,
as they regard them as strike breakers.
There was another battle between
strikers and workers at Donora to-
night. Again bricks and stones were
hurled and shots fired and again the
STATE police dispersed the assailants.
No one was seriously injured. though
many were hurt.
The strike committee announced to-
day that the mills of the West Penn
sylvania Steel Company, at Tarentum,
had closed and that the Allegheny
Steal Company at Brackenbridge was
to shut down tomorrow, but inquiry
revealed that both plants were running.
The Allegheny Company reported that