The Connecticut labor press., 1920-08-07
ANOTHER GREAT STEEL STRIKE IS
 AGAIN IN SIGHT
As Predicted by The Labor Press Abandonment by Last Strike
 Merely Postponement.
HAS TREMENDOUS BACKING
Entire American Federation of
 Labor Will Support Strikers to the Limit.

As was announced in The Connecti- cut Labor Press, and the majority ot Labor journals throughout the country, at the time of the abandonment Of the last steel strike, the action marked only a postponement to still greater activities looking toward the unioniZing of the steel mills later.
 The Executive Council of the Amer ican Federation of Labor now an nounces that unless in the meantime the United States Steel Corporation abandons its traditional non-union pol icy, the spring of 1921 will see another drive to unionize the steel industry ot the country. Within the month the Executive Council may be- expected to issue, formal call to the unions in terested to nominate a. committee to have charge of the drive:
 It will be called strike committee, but as the committee i'll charge of or ganization it will have charge of any strike that may be necessary to force recognition of the principle of collec- tive bargaining through representa- lives of the men chosen by themselves without interference on the part of the companies involved.
 There are 30 unions interested i'll the steel industry, and each will be repre- sented on the committee.
 Impressive Co-Operation.
 The way for the formation of new cor,r.itte and the launching of another drive to unionize the steel mills has been cleared by announcement of the will ingness of the Ama1gamated Assocla- ton of Steel and Iron Workers, the organization of skilled men Ill the trade to cooperate if a new committee, III which neither John Fitzpatrick nor William Z. Foster figures IS named. AS the Fitzpatrick-Foster committee mas formally disbanded, and there is no in tention of reviving it, at least with the old personnel this condition IS easy to comply with.
 This leaves as the only obstacle ln the way the disposlng ot the corpse of the strike of last year. The Foster Fitzpatrick committee has turned over to the executive committee such funds as it had, together with considerable ntHnber of unliquidated bills. This With steel strike funds already in the pos session of Secretary Frank Morrison, is more than enough to settle all leglt1- mate claims and leave a balance for the new committee to work with. The clearing tip of this matter IS but mat ter of detail which probably will be ar ranged before the council adIourns on Saturday.
 Tn advance of action by the lnterna- .tionaI unions it is not possible to say who will head the new committee. It is easy, however, to say who w11 nc not; t; Fitzpatrick is on the list of MOI ,. So also is Foster Furthermore, 1t can with safety be predicted that no one who figured in any important capacity in the strike will have a part. Even Foster. whose Little Red Book" was such a factor in bringing disrepute to the steel strike last year, now admits that his selection for place on the organization committee was mistake.
 As planned, the full force of organ ized labor will be>put behind the move ment to organize the steel workers in much the same way that, i'll 1897, the labor movement got solidly behind movement to assist the miners.
 Premature Strikes Prevented.
 Precautions will be taken to avoid setting up a situation that will permit the men to be rushed into strike, as was the case year ago when the ap- peals of President Wilson and of Sam uel SIJOmperS 10 WlIHlOld dSIlOll PSi1N ing the meeting of the industrial con. ference were ignored by Fitzpatrick and Foster.
 Reports from the steel centers to the Federation indicate that conditions are far more favorable now for organlza- ton than year ago. The big obstacle that remains is the policy of preventing meetings of any kind that has obtained ;1 McKeecOort RraddOck and other steel towns. This may be expected to continue, but it will not prevent organ izers being sent into the closed terri ,,,bar, +Ia t;,11a comes