The daily morning oasis., 1920-08-20
EDITORIALS.


Yesterday morning "The, Oasis" presented
synopsis of the report of the Interchurch World
Commission, upon the Steel Corporation and the big
strike precpitated with is wokngmen through un-
Christian and unfair illegal and unconstitutional
practices scathing araignment of Twentieth Cen
fury heathenism
In the publication there was displayed accounts
of acts of repression and violence leveled against
workmen in steel mills in Pennsylvania Indiana and
Illinois, The record in PENNSYLVANIA was particular
ly outrageous. Steel company officials had been
manipulated into public office where they exerted
official authority to punish strikers for the simplest
and even fancied offences. The constitutional right
of the people to assemble and discuss matters of com,
mon interest was denied and gatherings of orderly
citizens were broken UP by rude force by officers
acting Illegally under behest of Steel COMPANY Of
ficials in public office AS stated herenbefore the
record in Pennsylvania particularly atrocious
Those in Indiana and Illinois were sufficiently
outrageous; but Pennsylvania overshadowed the 9TH
ers in the atrocities, rdignit;es and crimes COM
nlitted upon free American citizens
1t is observable that in all that report there was
no critical or pointed auson to conditions in Ohio
at the time although Ohio has some of the most
extensive steel making plants in the country some
of them conducted by the American Steel Company
1.-THE trust) and some of them bv inderendents.
Writers who visited the various fields of operations
at the time of the strike testified to great diff
ference between conditions in Pennsylvania and
and Ohio. "The Oasis recalls series of articles in
the Saturday Evening Post by ore who had been in
France and was accustomed to describing things as
they appear He testified thai in Pennsylvania there
was continual display of military force (constab-
uiarly) breaking up knots of people who had
stopped in twos thu to converse and running
them Off the Streets into their homes or arresting
them and haling then. before some court (Steel
company official the iudge). where heavy fines or
Imprisonment were inflicted. And this was done bv
armed men clothed with all the majesty of the law
by the act of the Pennsylvania legislature. Upon
the other hand the writer described conditions
IN Chic, testifying that everything was ORDERLY
and peaceful There was no display of military
force. Strikers and other peorIe circulated about
the streets at will and stopped TO converse with their
fellows If they liked; and there was no molestation.
And there violence against the mills
Ohio was under administration of Democratic
governor all the period of the Stee, strike and is
still under the benign administration of that same
chief executive, who is now the Democratic can
didate for President of the United States.
In his speech of acceptance published in full in
The lass" Wedt esGay Govern " Coz made pointed
aluson to that very difference in conditions: and
ne guaranteed the country at large the same fair,
upright attitude toward all interests as his admin
istration has shown in Ohio. Mr. Cox called atten-
tion to the fact that there haG been no violence in
Ohio against either persons nor property ard no as
sred the people of America that as President of the
United States the rights of Ill will be observed and
respected under the guarantees riv@n in the federal
constitution and all the state constitutions.
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