Show STEEL OAR WORK PIT OF Father Toner So Styles One of the Labor Shambles a i Great Pittsburg Speaking during the recent strike of ten thousand of the Pressed Steel Car company McKees near the A. P. rector of St. Mary's church at said J are robbed and and their wives are abused in a manner worse than death all to obtain or retain positions that barely keep starvation from the Sunday five persons were killed and many wounded as a result of a battle outside of the stockade which were huddled the strike breakers employed by the Pressed Steel law is now being enforced throughout the It is that the strikers realize that their light is that their jobs-are and that they no longer were wanted within the big gates' of the The women and child ren of the strikers grasped the situation as soon as the and the idea of starvation and with winter coming caused the wails of anguish in many a striker's The place is a pit of men are lower than the degradation of slaves and to sacrifice their wives or daughters to foremen little bosses to be allowed to I was allowed to enter the plant at my will a few years but I saw too of the pernicious crime perpetrated daily and the gates were closed on It is to terrible to is a disgrace to a A man is given less consideration than a and dead bodies are simply kicked while the men are literally driven-to their The grafting stealing by the bosses and other higher officials is not paralleled to my 1 For a few years after the plant was members of visited had meals at my home and we were on the friendly But men were being killed Their bodies simply when I began to comment to the denied have rarely heard a more awful indictment than these words of Father Cantwell of the Newark We trust that they are not the exaggerated expression of feeling and sympathy for the workmen about whom they were If the conditions exist in the Pressed Steel Car Works which are here the people of Pennsylvania must be dead to the ordinary feelings of human if they allow them to Two prominent characteristics of the pagans of Rome were their gross immorality and their excessive It seems to us that the pagans of Pittsburg are tending to outstrip their ancient What has the press of Philadelphia and Pittsburg to say about these terrible Will the Pennsylvania papers remain-silent while such conditions are allowed to 1 What has the governor of the state to Will the next legis- Intermountain |