The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-08-19

duce such circulars The "othcr information con-
sisted of the stickers with these Words Steel work.
ers strike September e." On such basis would
a public authority curtail liberty here in America
To quote further from the report "Free elections
were customarily impossible in steel towns in West
ern PENNSYLVANIA, due to clearly understood
manipulations bv steel company officials or by steel
company officials who were alec public Officials.
AGAIN., During the strike violations OF personal
rights and personal liberty Wholesale men
were arrested without warrants, imprisoned With
out charges their homes invaded without legal pro-
cess: magistrates verdicts were rendered frankly
on the basis of whether the striker would go back to
work or not But even these things would seem to
be less concern to the nation at large than the de-
eradation, persistent and approved by public
opinion Of civil liberties in behalf of private con-
Germs industrial practices Local magistrates,
notice authorities etc. around Pittsburgh were very
frequently steel mill officials relations OF mill Of
ficials In other cases steel mill officials exercised
police authority without the excuse Of having been
previously elected to public office For example, be-
sides Sheriff Had,lock of Allegheny County, whose
brother was superintendent Of an American Sheet
and Tin Plate plant Corporation subsidiary, Mayor
Crawford of Duquesne the brother of the presl-
dent of the McKeespo1t Tin Plate Company; Presi-
dent Moon of the Boro Ugh Council of Homestead was
chief of the mechanical department of the Home
stead Mill; BURGESS Lincoln o. MunFall was de-
partuert cuperinten>7ent in tire same mill. The bur
CESS of Clarion " as mill official, etc, When
strike. was tasr1 before mil ficla pubic ofcils
he was likely to suspect corn=ct:ons between his
fate and the steel companys desires. In many othet
cases officials of mills personally gave the orders for
arrest and the decisions I'd whether the arrested
should be j2iled or not, generally after learning
whether the striker would return to work CT not"
Czarism in America
How far organized tyranny went in Western
Pennsylvania last fall and to less degree IN In
llama and Illinois, appears in the record Of reasons
for arrests. We quote from the lnterchurch Steel
Strike report again: "The charges which strikers
were arraigned before local magistrates, then i'm
prsoned or fined, were often never recorded and
never learned by the prisoners. Recorded formal
specifications included stopping men from going to
work. 'cursing (the State police deputies), 'abus
ing refusing to obey orders ito move on etc.,,
going out of his house before daylight laughing
at the police, throwing strike cards out the
Streets smiling at the State police Fines ran
from $40 to $50 or $50. imprisonment terms up
to months. Arrested men were frequently taken
not to jail, but inside the STEEL mills and held there
The charges of beatirgs. cuhbings often substan~
ated by doctors and eyewitnes ses affidavts,
endless and monOtOnOus; in most communities the
only public Official to appeal 70 turned out to be an
other mill official. In the of the strike
populations of workers sought the Government with
petitions Attorney General Palmer they consider
ed gave them the Governments only answer in his
letter, published on November &c. commencing a
patriotic socieys efforts to run labor agitators out
of Pennsylvania 1t is pity the Attorney Cen
eral wrote, that more patriotic organizations do not
take action similar to that of your order"
The Secret Service Agencies
One of the worst elements in the steel industry,
revealed by the nterchurch report the strike,
the of the blacklist and Ct the labor spy. TIE
reports quotes the following letters from a secret
agency to a "cliert': We wish to thank you very
much for this business and will endeavor to make
valuable to you possible and trust that it
will be instrumental in having the morale of your
foreign strikers broken" One Of these agencies put
out the following circular to of it's operatives:
we want you to stir up much bad feeling you
possibly can between the Ser',ians md the italians.
Spread data among the Sertia1s that the Italians
going back to work. Call every question you
can in reference t. racial hatred between these two
nationalities" Such coldblocaed planning for evil
are fit to be classed with treason.