The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-26

labor organization that had a strong
foothold in the industry. He managed
the first through the famous Gary
dinners in New York where proper
tions of output were arranged and
prices fixed by gentleman's agree
ment.
The smashing of the unions was a
more complicated affair. The trust
had taken In more steel mills than it
could run profitably so Gary closed
down the unionized mills and kept
the nOnunion mills running. The
unions, principally the Iron Steel &
Tin Workers Amalgamated Assn,
shrunk to insignificance in the indus
try. Gary frankly told the senate
committee:
at has been my policy and the
policy of our corporation not to
deal with union labor leaders at
any time; there is no necessity for
labor uEiOns."
But union sentiment kept springing
up under the terrific exploitation and
the mad slave-driving of the 12-hour
Jay. So he developed an anti-union
technic that consisted, in addition to
the freezeout of the unionized mills,
in using convict labor, in an elabor-
ate labor spy system, in mobilization
of strikebreakers, in the summary
discharge Of union suspects, in tn3
blacklist, in use of many groups of
alien :a5orers mutually ignorant OF
a common language such as English,
In political control OF the mayor and
police of the steel towns particularly
in PennS! lvania, Ohio and Indiana,
and in pervasive and persistent pres
sure thru the newspapers, churches
and schools.
Though Gary was a pious Method
list he wrecked the promising Inter-
Church World movement in 1920 when
1t brought out a report revealing the
hideOus Autocracy of his rule in the
stel towns during the 1919 strike. But
to good" churches like the Methodist
church in Gary, Ind, and the Y. M.
c. A. there-which is always we'll be-
haved = he was extremely generous.
He was member for almost a score
of years of the board of trustees of
Northwestern University, the middle
western college of big business. While
or the board ne picked up an honor
airy degree, voted him by the board,
but he squared things up by adding
to the university's library Immediate
~ atterward.
Gary tina.iy concluded that the hest
antiunicn policy was corporation well
lare work. he told the senate that
the trust had spent over $65,OOO,O 900
N welfare work of all kinds from
1912 to 1919, the year of the strike.
1t built churches, schools, hospitals,
clubs, Fairgrounds, bandstands and
had installed, he testified, 1885 bub- |
oilers ana 1929 urinals in that time.
All along judge Gary, this Morgan
lieutenant whose job was to smash
the iron and steel unions, knew better
imam the workers what it was all
about. AS he told the senate in the
most amazing burst of frankness in
the entire frank record of his 1919
testimony.
Il am in favor of high wages, but
there is {. point where you must stop
as matter of course because if the
workman increases his wages then
his employer increases the selling
price of his product. THEY ARE
PULLING AGAINST ONE ANOTH-
Err" ~ =
Possibly as ironic underscoring of
the fact that Gary was a Morgan
understrapper, the imperial govern
ment Of Japan pinned on him the dec
grafton OF the Order of the Sacred
Treasure, Second class. He was also
given the order of the Golden Cross
of Greece.
Ebert H. Gary did not, as popular
ly supposed, preside at the Haymar-
ket anarchist trial in 1886. That
i