Show I THE GREAT STRIKE 1 The Steel company employs directly j and Indirectly when things are running I smoothly about one million menor I I about onefifteenth of the voters of the I United States It does not take much I thought to see how great the calamity j would be were that force of men to be 1 thrown out of employment for any I length of time Their salaries during I the course of the year amount to 150 I 000000 There has never been any complaint com-plaint oi the wages they have been I paid A few weeks ago Mr Schwab and I Col Pope the famous bicycle king breakfasted together in New York I I During the course of it Col Pope said j to his companion Mr Schwab can you I recommend me a good business man for I managing a manufacturing plant ono who would be willing to devote his time to the concern and put forth his best I efforts exchange for a salary of 25 1 000 a year Mr Schwab replied that I i I be was In search of eight Just such men I I himself and that he did not know how I he would ever find them Col Pope I has explained In an interview the kind I I of man he wants He says The man I must be a creator of business That Is the point I do not want a man who I thinks he can conduct a great enterprise I enter-prise on a salary of 23000 a year he must know it and must be able to show r a business which he started and made I a success I want no experiments Thousands of men have ideas but It I Is few who are coolheaded and brainy I I enough to know how to use them Col Pope and Mr Schwab arc men who have fought their way up to their I present positions From the brightest 1 of all their employees they are promoting promot-ing those who possess the most skill and most capacity and It Is a lamentable thing that such an enterprise Is brought to a standstill through the Impossibility of tho managers agreeing with the heads of those who while denouncing the billiondollar trust have a trust on the brains of a million employees Tallc about autocratic powers Is there a bigger demonstration of it In the world than the dispatches brought yesterday when they said that Mr Shaffer has the business In his hands and Is able to say the word whether a million men shall go to work to earn their living or whether they shall remain in idleness for an Indefinite period |