METHODS OF STEEL TRUST.
TERRORISM ALLEGED. OFFER BY THE WORKERS. READY FOR ARBITRATION. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received 11 p.m.) A. and N.Z. "WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. Giving evidence before the Senate Committee which is investigating the steel strike, Mr. John Fitzpatrick, the organiser of the steel workers, assured the committee that the strikers would agree to a settlement of the dispute by an Arbitration Board appointed by Mr. Wilson.
Mr. Fitzpatrick declared that the steel companies raised large funds to prevent trades unionism establishing itself in the industry. When unions were formed, the Steel Corporation reduced the working hours and improved wages in an effort to forestall labour organisation. The conditions of the industry were atrocious.
Mr. Fitzpatrick asserted that the Steel Trust employed gunmen to shoot Labour organisers. Union men were unable to talk in ' the streets of the Steel Company cities without atf&ck. The police entered houses and assaulted unionists, and the company employed gunmen to shoot anyone prominent in Labour circles. The President himself had asked the head of the Steel Corporation to arbitrate, but Mr. Gary had refused.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17276, 27 September 1919, Page 9
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