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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1919
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Tn.fi, rvvra *In Orea??er New York nnd
XWO VEUT? ( wjthjn comrootlna dlfitanre
THREE CKXTS
I'.lsewhere
Steel Workers Strike, Fire on Troopers;
Alien Labor Thinks "Revolution" Has Begun
Elkus Board
Would Centre
State Power
In Governor
Makes Many Offices Ap?
pointive, Chief Execu?
tive Responsible, and
tlis Term Four Years
171 Departments
Are Eliminated
Budget Important Feat?
ure of Plan; Hearing; at
City Hall Wednesday;
Partv Leaders Favor It
A plan for a complote reorganization
of the state government will be pre?
sented to the public in the form of a
report to the Governor by the New
York SUte Reconstruction Commission
at a hearing to be held at City Hall
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.
In their recommendations for im?
provements of administration the re?
port says the commissioners are sun-'
stantiaily agreed that economy and
respcnsiblo government can result only
from:
The consolidation of offices, boards
and commissions into a few great do
partmonts of government, each re?
sponsible for the conduct of a par?
ticular major function?such as
finance, health, welfare of public
works.
Vesting the power of appointment
and removal cf department heads in
ihn Governor, making him, in fact as
?well a? in theory, the responsible
chief executive of the state. There
is a difference of opinion as to the
desirability of confirmation of the
Governor's nominations by the Senate.
A budget system, vesting in the
Governor the full responsibility for
presenting to the Legislature a con?
solidated budget containing all ex?
penditure- wh;ch in his op'nion should
be undertaken by the state, and a
proposed pian for obtaining the
necessary revenues- -such a plan to
represen? trie work of the Governor
and his cabinet.
Would Extend Governor's Term
It is recommended that the Gov?
ernor's term he extended to four
years, and that there be ;i careful ad?
justment of the terms o( department
heads with reference to the term of
the Governor.
The repor! points out the nerd of
retrenchment in state expenses; quotes
the fact that the general budget ap?
propriation for the next fiscal vear
was $90,000,000; that the state
revenue is insufficient to meet this
need, and that between ?1S.O00.OOO and
$20,000.000 had to be provided by new
legislation, with an additional amount
for increasing local resources, which
"ought the total deficit up to $50,
000,000.
It refers to fie increase in expendi?
ture, which it declares needless,
Drought about by the constant addition
by each new Legislature of new de?
partment:?, bureaus or agencies to ad?
ministrate organization, resulting in
duplication of f Mictions.
For example, it says that more than
?even departments are collecting and
assessing taxes; (here are ton 'engi?
neering departments, and numerous
control and visiting departments for
eorrectional and charitable institu?
tions ami hospitals for the insane,
many of which might be put with ad?
vantage under one head. There are
"Iso, it says, legal functions scattered
through ten departments besides that
of the Attorney General.
Supported by Leaders
The report says the commission's
Plan has already gained the support
?f Democratic and Republican leaders,
*nd some of the principles involved
have been included in Progressive and
Socialist platforms as well.
.The plan proposed by the commis
,!on, of which Abram 1. LTkus is head,
would consolidate 187 departments, bu?
reaus, boards, commissions and other
?gencies and appurtenances of the
?Ute government into sixteen d?part?
ants, as follows:
Executive Department.
Department of Audit and Control.
Department of Taxation and
''nance.
Department of Public Works.
Department of Attorney General.
Department of State.
Department of Conservation.
Department of Agriculture and
Markets,
department of Labor,
j'eparttnent of Education.
nepartrunt of Health.
Department of Mental Hygiene,
1 Critics and Correction.
? ublic Service Commissions:
' eparti.?eni oi Hanking and Insur
?nce.
department of Civil Service.
Affa artment oi Military and Naval
w"ly ?he Gov*??t ?"a the Con
j,''ierAtne latter acting as an indepen
the 1 Clal offlcer. ?re D-ft under
Plan as elective administrative of
ficers of the state.
poThe governor would be the real and
irr? . v a<'' tnu commission says, of a
hav , Usiness-Dke machine, he would
WonU l.emendous Vovror, but also he
?-~?-?av^ ^tremendous responsibility
Continued on page four
U. S. Marines Reported to
Have Landed Near Fiume
D'Annunzio, Given 48 Hours to Sur?
render City, Says "Never; I Will
Not Leave Here Alive"
LONDON, Sept. 21. An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Milan, dated
Friday, quotes the "Corriere Delia
Sera" as Baying that a party of Ameri?
can marines has landed at Buocari,
five miles east of Fiume.
Tho Romo "Tribuna" reported
Friday the population of Fiume had
decided to make a demonstration
Saturday upon tho expiration of tho
forty-eight hour limit, set by General
Badoglio for the return of Italian
j troops in Fiume to Italy. Women,
! children and men were to precede the
! troops to the armistice line, shielding
I the soldiers to see whether General
| Badoglio would fire.
It was added that d'Annunzio had
' ordered the ?sentinels on the Jugo-Slav
i frontier not to make use of their arms,
even if the Jugo-Slavs fired on them,
saying:
"Allow yourselves to be killed. We
are here for this, since our sacrifice
! may lead to the occupation of all of
' Dalmatia."
ROME, Sept..20.?The Anglo-Franco
Italian agreement on the disposition
of Fiume, according to the. "Messag
gero," places the city under the
sovereignty of Italy and the harbor
1 under control of the league of nations.
j The "Pop?lo D'ltalia," the Milan
; socialist organ, which was favorable
to the war, says that d'Annunzio now
has under his command 20,000 men,
but no money.
FIUME, Sept. 18 (By Tho Associated
Press).?Gabriele d'Annunzio is indig?
nant because General Gandollo sent an
airplane over Fiume to drop leaflets in?
viting the soldiers to return to duty
not later than September 18, in order
to avoid being considered deserters and
traitors. D'Annunzio, addressing his
troops, said:
"I will answer for you with my head.
You are accomplishing a work of re?
generation. The deserters are those
who abandon our Fiume, committing
the basest crime against patriotism
ever perpetrated on earth.
"The true Italian army is here,
formed by you, combatants without
fear and without reproach. To have
participated in this most audacious en?
terprise will bo the purest title to
jilory. All your names will be included
by history, carved there as in heroic
marble, nnd rewarded by the gratitude
of the people.
"Be faithful to Fiume. For myself, I
shall not leave here alive, nor shall I
leave here when I am dead, as I shall
be buried here, to become one with this
sacred soil."
Two British ships and one Ameri?
can vessel are still anchored at the
Danubius dockyard, a considerable
distance from the city.
Five Shot in
Italian Feud
Jn Brooklyn
Womaou an$ Boy Drop as
Contractor's Sons and
Neighbor Open Fire to
Settle Family Quarrel
Five persons were shot last night in
an encounter between Italian feudists
at Fourth Avenue and President Street,
Brooklyn. The whole Italian colony
?.vas in an npruar when the police ar?
rived. Little groups were gathered
; bout Mrs. Rose Somina, of IG Garfield
Place, anel nine-year-old Salvatore Da
narodo, of 21 Garfield Place, who lay
wounded on the sielewalk.
Another group was clustered fear?
fully at the entrance to a cellar at
273 First Street. Its members told the
police that one of the combatants, sore?
ly wounded, hael crawled in there. The
flashlights of the police revealed the
man, unconscious, lying on his face
with a revolver still clutched in his
hand. _
lie is Alphemso Sulzano, of 452 Car?
roll Street, the son e>f a Brooklyn con
tractor. Five bullets had bored his
ehest and back. He was taken to the
Methodist Episcopal Hospital and is
likely to die. Salvatore Danarodo was
taken to the sarm; institution. A bul
lot had struck his shoulder. Mrs. So?
mina was taken to the Holy Family
Hospital. Shu was wounded in the left
thigh.
Some time later an automobile ar?
riv?e! at the Holy Family Hospital and
another at the Methodist Episcopal
Hospital, each with a wounded man in
it. The occupant of the former turned
out te> be Sulzano's brother Jose'ph, of
2715 First Street. One bullet had pene?
trated his back and another the left
side of his chest. The seconel wounded
man was Frank Carlo, of 12 Garlield
Place. He had a bullet hole in his
back and another in his right leg. _
According to residents of the neigh?
borhood the Sulzano brothers had met
Carlo at the corner and all three had
drawn revolvers and started shooting
on sight. One of them at least was
seen shoving fresh cartridges into his
revolver and it was said that more than
twenty shots were fired.
Accoreling to the police all three
men, against each of whom a charge
of felonious assault was entered, ad?
mitted that there was a quarrel be?
tween the Sulzanos and the Carlos and
that they had started tei shoot it out.
What the dispute was none would say.
After the light Joseph Sulzano and
Carlo each managed to get into a taxi
cab with the intention of making their
escape. The drivers of the vehicles be?
came alarmed at their passengers' con?
dition, however, and started for the
nearest hospital.
-?
Jersey Prison Guards
Form Union, Hint Strike
TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 21.?Depu?
ties, guards and other attach?s of the
state prison here have organized a
union and have applied for affiliation
with the Mercer County Central Labor
Union, which is a branch of the Amer?
ican Federation of Labor.
Prison employes to-day refused to
discuss the movement except to Bay
that something must be done to in?
crease their pay to a living standard
commensurate with present conditions.
? It was pointed out that ten years ago
! they received $90 a month and now
I under present conditions are receiving
$100 a month.
The action of the deputies Is causing
I lively speculation. It is said that
soldiers would have to be used to pre?
vent a wholesale delivery of convicts
; if the deputies went on strike. The
matter of giving them a 25 per cent
bonus has been recommended bv the
state board of control of institutions
and agencies of the Stata House Com?
mission.
Allied Demand
For Ex-Kaiser
Expected Soon
Dulch Minister Is Said to
Have Been Warned; Ger?
man Spy Visits Wilhelm;
Political Coup Hinted
PARIS, Sept. 21.?The Dutch Minis?
ter in Paris has been advised, according
to the "Libre Belgique," of Brussels,
that Holland within two weeks will re?
ceive a demand for the. extradition of
former Emperor William on behalf of
the Allies.
AMERONGEN, Sept. 21 (By The As?
sociated Press).-Th? former German
Emperor has refused to break his long
silence so far as the public is con?
cerned, even at the behest of the mon?
archist leaders of Germany. Ignatius
T. Lincoln, the German agent who at
one time was' a member of the Brit?
ish Parliament and was interned dur?
ing the greater part of the war. re?
turned hastily to Berlin to-day with
his guest "Herr Anderson," after a
conference at Bentinck Castle this
morning.
It was believed that Lincoln came
to Amerongen to obtain some direct
word from the former Emperor which
tic could deliver to the Hohenzollern
supporters. But if he did, the nature
of it is not disclosed. Last night Lin?
coln informed The Associated Press
that he expected to have a startling
statement to make Sunday. But just
before hastening by automobile to
Utrecht, he said he had not been au?
thorized to talk, and gave The Asso?
ciated Press this statement:
"I am sorry that I am unable to
mako a statement to you before my
departure from Amerongen. The fact
is there is nothing to say. I came here
and return to Berlin in a private ca?
pacity.
"If I may make a suggestion, were
I in yonr place I would not telegraph
anything that could put official con?
struction on my sojourn in Amerongen,
as such statements would most likely
be refuted by the persons with whom
I have had a few pleasant chats of a
purely personal and private nature."
Lincoln expressed the opinion that
the bitter feeling against Great Britain
would not end for a long time.
"I, told the British authorities that
in my writings I would devote ray
life's work against England," said Lin?
coln. "I am already beginning."
Lincoln apparently based high hopes
on the conference to-day. It is known
that while German monarchists do not
consider the time ripe for revival of
the Hohenzollern claims, they have
been disturbed by reports that the
former royal family seems content to
settle down in Holland, and have bom?
barded both the former Emperor and
former Crown Prince with informa?
tion to show that the greater part of
the population of Germany, sooner or
later, will urge a limited constitutional
monarchy, with a Hohenzollern king.
One of the many German monarch?
ists, who recently has been in Holland,
explained the situation to the corre?
spondent.
"In Germany," he said, "the present
Socialist government is not likely to
9tand a long struggle, which will ulti?
mately settle down to a contest be?
tween the extreme Lefts and the
Monarchists. In this, I think, the lat
i ter are bound to win.
?The Hohenzollerns are still im
! mensely popular, particularly the
Crown Prince, Prince Henry of Prus?
sia and the Crown Princess. Perhaps
the former Kaiser himself may never
return to the throne, but the belief of
our party is that one of the Hohen
i zollerns, sooner or later, will rule Ger
I many again, and with the consent of
1 the Allies, who would appreciate the
efforts of such a government com?
bating Bolshevism."
Belgium and
Holland Said
To Have Split
Berlin Dispatch Reports
Ambassadors at Both
Brussels and The Hague
Have Been Recalled
Breaking Poiut
Near Many Times
Rupture Resulted Over
Demand for Revising
Scheldt River Treaty
LONDON, Sept. 21.?An official wire?
less dispatch from BerJijn, dated Sat?
urday, says that tho Belgian Ambas?
sador at The Hague having been with?
drawn, the Dutch Ambassador at Brus?
sels also has been withdrawn.
Several times recently there have
been reports that diplomatic relations
between Belgium and Holland were
sadly straineel as a result of the de?
mands of Belgium for a revision of
the treaty of 18159 between Belgium
and Holland, under which Holland an?
nexed the southern bank of tho
Scheldt River and an elongated strip
of Dutch Limbcrg lying between Bel?
gium anel Germany.
The Allies were believed to bo favor?
ably inclined toward the principle of
the free navigation of the Scheldt, but
Holland is understood to have been
irrevocably opposed to any renuncia?
tion of sovereignty in this connection.
A commission of the peace confer?
ence, at last accounts, ,v;,s considering
the situation.
King Albert of Belgium anel Queen
Elizabeth were scheduled to sail Mon
el,'iy for the United States. What effect
the reported recall of envoys by the
Brussels and The Hague governments
may have upon the King's plans has
not been indicateel in dispatches re
ce,veel here.
Mercier Explains Need
Of Belgians Fortifying
Says That Nation's Safety Front
Another Invasion Depends
on the Territory Demanded
BALTIMORE, Sept.. 21.?When Car?
dinal Mercier was informeel to-night
at Cardinal Gibbons's residence of the
reporteil severance of diplomatic rela?
tions between Belgium anel Holland, he
said :
"I knew there were elifficulties, but
had no reason to suppose a rupture
was imminent." Others in his party
elid not seem surpriseel over the news.
"Germany is recuperating," Cardinal
Mercier said. "And," put in Fran?ois
Dessain, the Cardinal's secretary, who
speaks for him, "should she be al?
lowed to reconstruct her strength Bel?
gium may well expect another invasion
?unless we insure ourselves by forti?
fying the front facing Dutch Limburg.
This we are unable to do, because our
guns would be1 trainee! on neutral
(Dutch) territory. Belgium shoulel
have put in a stronger claim at the
peace conference for safety measures
on the east boundary, but. unfortunate?
ly, Belgium's vote was very weak at
the sessions.
"Military history and wars have
taught us that rivers are the only de?
pendable lines of elefence. In this case
it is. the Meuse that must be fortified.
Anel unless Belgium possesses the
lower part of the vital province, now
utterly useless from a military view?
point to the Dutch, but essential to
Belgium, nothing can be done. Hail
the Germans seen fit to invade us by?
way of Limburg instead of respecting
the Dutch territory their advance could
not have been held up.
"Should another invasion be at?
tempted under the present situation
the entire bulk of the Belgian army
would have to be concentrated in the
vicinity of Waterloo. This would eat
away our strength of fortification to
the south. If our concentration was
in the south the north would be
eloomed. If the army forco was dis?
tributed along the border it could not
withstand an attack."
Aski'd whether Belgium anticipated
war neither Cardinal Mercier nor his
secretary would deny its possibility.
"Many Belgians would welcome it,"
M. Dessian volunteered.
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Poles Qaim Defeat of
Reds in 10-Day Battle
BERNE, Sept. 21.?The Polish bu?
reau here announces that the Polish
army has achieved a complete victory
over the Bolsheviki after a ten days'
battle on tho Duna River. It is as?
serted that the Bolsheviki. who pre?
viously had crossed the Duna, were
surrounded and killed or taken pris?
oner.
The bureau adds that the Poles have
gone up the Duna and occupied the
town of DuiBno.
-.
Germany Asks Argentina
For $100,000,000 Loan
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BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 21.?The gov?
ernment has been asked to grant a
credit of $100,000,000 gold to Germany
to facilitate the purchase of raw mate?
rials in Argentina.
The credit will be similar to that
I granted to the Entente powers last
j year, except that Germany oflfers to
? provide security.
Wilson Said
To Have Lost
Treaty Votes
Speeches in 13 States
Are Declared to Have
Cost Covenant Support
and President Prestige
Senate Foes
Are Undaunted
Third Term Candidacy Is
Regarded as Assured,
but Weakened by Trip
By Carter Field
New York Tribune
? Waahirgton Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.?Thirteen
states have been visited by President
Wilson so far on his tour of the coun?
try in behalf of the peace treaty and
league of nations, and practically
three-fourths of his time has been ex?
pended, so a fair judgment of the ef?
fect of his trip may bo had by study?
ing the results. The almost unanimous
opinion here is that Mr. Wilson has
steadily lost ground.
There are two effects, one openly
desired, tho ratification of the peace
treaty without reservations or amend?
ments, and the other, important no
matter whether it interests Mr. Wil?
son or not, the effect on the Presi?
dential campaign next year. The
President has convinced the politicians
of both parties here that he intends
to run for the Presidency again next
year. It is conceded, of course, that
he can have the Democratic nomina?
tion if he wants it?barring a politi
; cal miracle.
Wilson Weaker Than League
Most of the confidential reports re?
ceived here by politicians about the
effect of the President's trip assert
that the President himself is consider?
ably weaker than the league. News
writers with the President have writ?
ten the opinion that he would
strengthen the treaty fight by an?
nouncing that he would not be a candi
i date.
In the treaty situation President
I Wilson has visited most of the states
in which he could hope to accomplish
anything by changing votes of the
Senators representing those states. On
leaving California he will speak in
i Nevada, both of whose Senators are
for him anyhow. He will then visit
I Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, Okla?
homa and Tennessee.
He will spend the last two days of
? his trip in Kentucky, where both' Sen
| ators are for the league without reser
| vations, but which has just elected a
| Republican member of the House in a
: district which had not gone Repub
I lican before in a generation. The state
I has been drifting Republicanward for
? some time.
? Trip Virtually Ended
So that so far as its effect on the
treaty tight is concerned the Fresi
I dent's trip is almost concluded. There
| are a few reservationists in the states
I he will visit, but they are men par
| ticularly noted *"or making up their
! minds and sticking to it, relying on
! the future to justify them rather than
attempting to follow public opinion in
! their states at the moment. This in
I eludes such Sonators as Thomas, of
? Colorado; Gore, of Oklahoma, and
? Shields, of Tennessee.
A careful canvass of the Senators
! whose states the President has visited
does not disclose a single gain made
by the President. Not a .single mild
reservationist has been won over
against reservation; not a single
strong reservationist has been turned
into a mild reservationist; and not a
i single advocate of amendments or a
! irreconcilable has been weakened, so
i the President has not won anything
; for his treaty in the Senate by his
trip so far.
On tho other hand, he seems to have
: lost some strength. Immediately fol
; lowing his speech in St. Louis Senator
, Spencer, of Missouri, who had been a
j mild reservationist, made a. speech
i boldly* transferring himself to the
, class of strong reservationists. He is
i virtually now for the committee reser
: vations, and there are strong hopes
that he will vote at least for the
amendment giving the United States an
j equal vote in the league assembly with
the British Empire.
Kenyon's Speech Noticed
In Iowa the President's visit was fol?
lowed by a speech by Senator Kenyon
! far stronger than anything which the
< leaders had hoped for from him. His
deriance of the President to attack the
merits of the British Empire amend?
ment was particularly pleasing to ad?
vocates of that amendment, as Mr.
Kenyon had been classed as a mild
reservationist.
His colleague, Senator Cummins, who
had been meeting in conferences with
the mild reservationists, openly con
! gratulated him on his speech. Since the
i President's visit in North Dakota, Min
! nesota and Oregon, Senators Kellogg
and Nelson, of Minnesota; McCurnber,
of North Dakota, and McNary, of Ore?
gon, have been conferring with Senator
Lodge, and it is now admitted that they
have advanced almost to the point of
- accepting the strong committee reser
Continued on page thiteen
Foreigners' Chief Object
Is to Promote Revolt
"Pay This Week, Next Week Take," Is
Threat Made in Settlement Stores;
Leader Is Former I. W. W.
By Theodore M. Knappen
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 21.?Foreign
steel workers have been told by labor
organizers that the general strike of
the employes of the steel millB through?
out the United States, which is to be?
gin to-morrow, is the revolution. Ex?
pressed in the broken English of some
buyers at stores in the steel towns,
it is:
"Me pay this week. Next week, no
pay. Take."
There is no doubt that many of the
Slav workers, with hazy but rosy
visions of the Russian economic revo?
lution in their minds, think that Mon?
day will mark the beginning of the
revolution in America. They join in
the strike not for immediate better?
ment of conditions, but to promote the
revolution?not to get more, but to
get all.
In a more profound way and with
the longer view, this idea, if his record
is any criterion, is in the mind of
William Z. Foster, secretary of the
international unions' committee of
twenty-four, which has organized for
the strike and will direct it.
Conceded To Be the
Brains of Campaign
Foster is conceded to be the brains
of the whole campaign to unionize
the steel industry, and he is?or was
?a thorough-going syndicalist, having
a long record as a writer of industrial
revolution pamphlets and articles foi
the radical press and was formerly
identified with the I. W. W. movement
lie is a <iuiet-mannered, soft-spoker
; man of about thirty-five, who, al
j though he is the head-centre of ?
; great organization and is bearing the
chief responsibility for the strike, i:
never in a hurry and always seems tc
have abundant leisure to consider 01
discuss whatever may come along. He
has an unusual memory and carries ir
his head what most men would keej
in elaborate files. Hence he is able
tu direct a momentous and perhaps
portentous movement with a headquar?
ters consisting of one small room ir
the Magee Building here and with t
stenographic force consisting of one
frail young woman and some casua
volunteers, mostly locai organizer;
who happen into the office.
Is He Si ill an
I. W. W. at Heart?
Having read in his pamphlet, entitlee
"Syndicalism," his view that the rad
ical industrial revolutionists have made
a great mistake in separating them
selves from the regular trade union:
and even opposing them (a view whicl
caused Foster to desert the I. W. W.)
and that their correct policy was ti
"bore in" to those unions and get con
trol of them, I asked Foster if he wen
still a syndicalist.
"What's that got to do with the pre3
ent situation?" he countered.
"This," I answered, "that in leadin?
this steel strike you appear to be bor
ing into the American Federation o
Labor in the manner you advised i;
your booklet on syndicalism. You hav
now an excellent opportunity to appt.
your theories?if they are still yours.
In answer Foster refused to say tha
he hael rejected syndicalism as a per
sonal view, but dwelt on the fact tha
he was thoroughly identified now wit
the American Federation of Labor, an
that Samuel Gompers, by whose au
tkority he occupies his present pos;
tioo, knew his whole record and woui
not have him where he is unless he ha
confidence in him.
May Be Practising
His Theories Now
Assuming that Foster is still a syr
dicalist, he is now far advanced in th
practice of his theory of advancin
revolutionary ideas by getting contre
of the regular traele unions instead i
combating them with independent 01
ganizations.
To-day twenty-four of the intern?
tional unions of the American Federt
tion of Labor are practically takin
orders from him, in so far as the in
pending steel strike is concerned.
Thus the man who formerly rid
culed unions as archaic and declare
that the only way to make them effe
tive for revolution was for a militai
minority to dominate them; who di
dared that there were no morals i
the class struggle, that only migl
was right; who preached sabotage i
all its forms and advocated a gueril
warfare of partial strikes in prepan
tion for the last grand strike of all
the universally triumphant gener.
strike?is now in control of a parti
strike of colossal proportions. Wl
can say that he does not plan the ult
mate general strike for the net
future?
Has Inspired
Bitterness in Men
In fairness to Foster it must be sa
that in the preliminaries of this ste
strike he has not u'ied syndicalist ta
tics to any noticeable extent, though 1
has not overlooked opportunities to i
spire bitterness. A short time ago
woman was killed in a conflict of co
mine strikers with deputy sherif
, which had no relation to the steel co
i troversy. Foster mailed grewaor
'half-tones of the dead woman's mutil?
ated head with copies of the strike |
call?without comment.
Wonder is expressed by all familiar
with Foster's economic theories and
his ideas of relentless class warfare,
with all weapons fair, that he has been
permitted to take the leadership of the
present strike, where his personality
is bound to be conspicuous. The ques?
tion is asked as to whether he has not
already penetrated many of the unions
with his radical and militant minority to
such a point that it is considered better
politicai management to let him go on
rather than try to stop him.
Believed Unions
Fear Him as Enemy
It is suggested that Samuel Gompers
and the conservative international
union presidents would rather have
Foster working with them than against
them, even at the cost of introducing
an excessive degree of radicalism into
the unions. This line of interpretation
of the present situation holds that in
doing so the conservative leaders arc
playing their positions "safe." If
Foster should win in this strike
trade unionism will be tremendousl>
strengthened, even if corrupted. Or
the other hand, if Foster loses, it will
be a knockout for radicalism, it is
argued, and the unions will not be seri?
ously affected. They have been out?
side the steel industry, and the defeat
of the strike would simply leave then,
outside, with the advantage of being
rid of Foster and his subversive doc?
trines?doctrines alike subversive o:
the present system and methods ol
trade unionism as they are of societj
as now constituted.
Rumors Heard
Of Padded Ballots
There are many stories in circula
lion which suggest that in practice
Foster has not been slow in applyi??.
his idea that it is the business of th
militant minority to rule. There ar
reports of strike referendum votes i
which one active militant voted 1,00
times and others of anti-strike ballot
being torn up wholesale. It is noted ii
this connection that there has neve
been any public announcement of th
actual figures of the referendum vote
The committee simply announced tha
it showed 98 per cent of the voters ii
favor of the strike. It is conjecture
that the total referendum vote wa
only a small portion of the nomina
union men in the steel industry. I
;his be true a minority of a part o
the steel workers has compelled
strike, which may result in untold suf
iering and disorganization of industry
It is notable that while Chairma
I Fitzpatrick, of the organizing commit
tee, delights to tell about the "intolei
able conditions" from which the wort
ers are seeking relief, Foster does n(
dwell much on specific grievances. T
him recognition of the labor organizi
tions is the whole thing, and so he
consistent in saying that the cause <
the strike is Judge Gary's refusal 1
confer with a delegation from the con
mittee.
Placed His Goal
Beyond Steel Issue
Foster Js not interested especially
more pay or shorter hours. He has h
eyes on something further away?ai
it would not, perhaps, do him an inju
tice to conclude that it is a proletary
control of society.
From within the committee
twenty-four comes an interpretati>
of the steel strike that may #xpla
the position of the A. F. of L. leade
in the presence of an industrial co
vulsion that most of them shrink fre
and would avoid at almost any co
That is that radicalism of a lawle
type had already soaked so deep ir
the foreign steel workers that if 1?
alone they were certain to organ
themselves and initiate direct acti
looking to the control of the steel
dustry and the general revoluti'
That, therefore, the only question 1
fore the American Federation of 1
bor was whether it should endeai
to take possession of the spontan?e
movement and direct it along regu
lines or whether it should let it t
its lawless and probably bloody coui
The decision having been made
favor of the former alternative, it
argued that Foster, with his radi
record and his genius for organiz
the kinds of workers that it has :
hitherto been possible to organize, \
the natural and logical choice for
place.
This week will bring an acid t
of Foster's leadership, the test of
suits. Looking forward in the li
of what he has done and his w
of doing it, the general judgment
those who have been in close cont
with him is that he is a leader of
ceptional abiliUr.
Belongs to the
Carmen's Union
Foster belongs to the carmen's ur
and he uses some of the lingo of t
craft, though he has no record of
but headwork in recent years,
headwork of studying and explair
the various bizarre and hectic phili
phie? of social decadence, such
anarchism and syndicalism?and
more robust mental exercises of sv
ing rough and uncouth men into i
ccrted action.
It was largely he who organized
packing house employes in Chic
and got from the packers a con
sion which the children of his orga
ing genius promptly kicked over
got a larger one by arbitration
ing a carman, he has a right to
like a railway brakeman, which
does, a brakeman, off duty?loose
suit, telescoped soft hat, and all.
his varied career he has doubtless
some unticketed experience with
i
Continued on paye three
State Police
And Unions
Clash Near
Pittsburgh
Meetings Are Broken Up
at McKeesport, North
Clairton and Glasfeport;
5,000 Quit in Ohio
Sheriff Forbids
Public Gatherings
Labor Leader Threatens
Retaliation for Action
of Authorities; Known
to Favor Use of Force
Stnff Correar'^ndntro
PITTSBURGH, Penn., Sept. 21.?Pre?
liminary to the steel strike staged for
midnight the grave-faced troopers of
the Pennsylvania constabulary rode
their black horses through dense crowds
of potential strikers at Clairton, Glass
port and McKeesport this afternoon en?
gaged in holding forbidden meetings,
jostling, trampling and clubbing a few
recalcitrants. Sixteen men were arrest?
ed at Clairton, and the union organizers
insist that several were seriously in?
jured.
Nobody was hurt or arrested at Mc?
Keesport, where the crowd was much
larger than at Clairton. The thousands
who had gathered on Fifth Avenue and
the hillsides were driven up and down
the streets and across vacant lots until
they gave up and retreated to their
homes.
Protest Sent to Governor
The national committee organizing
the iron and steel workers sent a tele?
gram to Governor Sproul to-night pro?
testing against the action of the state
police in "clubbing and riding down
helpless and innocent bystanders in
most murderous fashion."
Bricks and stones were thrown at the
troopers at Clairton and about twenty
shots, were fired from the crowd, but
the troopers did not use their guns.
Late reports indicate that no one was
seriously injured.
Squads of the state troopers are sta?
tioned to-night at every populous mill
town in the Pittsburgh district.
Fstimates to-day put the total
amount of riot insurance taken out in
Pittsburgh and vicinity at more than
$100,000,000.
The first move of the strikers as
midnight approached was to place
pickets at the gates of all mills with
little tickets to be handed to all work?
ers coming in or going out. The tick?
ets bear advice to strike and "don't be
a scab."
The chief executives of all the big
plants were planning to stay in their
offices throughout the night or to be
in direct communication with their
subordinates on duty at the offices and
the mills.
Report 6 a. m., Quit at 7
At Homestead the strikers will re?
port for work at 6 o'clock ?n the
morning and walk out at 7, in eirder
to make an impression on the other
men, and a like policy may be followed
elsewhere.
At some mills, it was said, part of
the day force had quit. One report
came from Ohio, saying that 5,000
men had struck during the day at
Youngstown.
The concluding paragraph of the
strike call of the national committee
for organizing iron and steel workers
reads:
"Iron and steel workers: An historic
decision confronts us. If we will but
stand together now like men our de?
mands will soon be granted and a
golden era of prosperity will open for
us in the steel industry. But if we
falter and fail to act this great effort
will be lost, and we will sink back into
a miserable and hopeless serfdom. The
welfare of our wives and children is
at stake. Now is the time to insist
upon our rights as human beings.
Stop work September 22."
Employes of the independent steel
plants are saiel to be getting uneasy.
At Bethelehem the men have called for
such a conference as was demanded of
the United States Steel Corporation,
with a strike as the alternative.
Both sides are anxiously awaiting
to-morrow. The managers of the mills
admit they do not know what they are
to confront, but all of the important
ones say tho struggle will bn one to
the finish, and that it will not end un?
til bitter and complete defeat has over?
taken the "endeavor to disrupt th?
steel industry from without."
Priest Denounces Strikers
The Rev. Father Molyneux, of St.
Brendan's Church, Braddock, a work?
ing-man's paria h, is represented as re?
flecting tno general attitude of the
English-speaking workers in h". morn?
ing's address to his people. Ile urged
his hearers to fight for their jobs if
need be, answer violence with violence
and "send to the River Styx" ail who
oppose them in the exercise of their
rights to earn their living as they
pleased. He denounced the strike or?
ganization as superfluous, foreign and
un-American.
Reports to-day emphasized racial
cleavage among the workers. Ameri?
cans, Poles and Italians and some oth?
ers, against the Balkans and the Rus?
sians.
The gathering at McKeesport was
planned despite aroelamatibns of Sher
iff William S. Haddock, of Alleghe
County, posted on the walls and tele
graph poles, forbidding public meet
lngs on the streets. The union organ