Show STEEL MAKERS ARE SCORED manufacturer accused of maintain ing ng a system of labor as a cruel and relentless as the galley galleys 6 NN washington ashington following a sweep ing investigation covering almost almott ev ery steel manufacturing plant in the united states the department ot of commerce and labor in a report now ready for the senate accuses practically eveia corporation of maintaining a system of labor as cruel relentless and unnecessary as the galleys of ancient times making the direct st that these corporations have instituted a policy eliminating the skilled arti sans bans and putting in their places the lowest form ol 01 unskilled workmen who are paid 14 cent cents i an aa nour the report states that the men are forced to remain on duty wilhoit relief as long as twenty tour four hours at a stretch and that in some plants eleb teen hour tricks are aro the rule rather than the excel exception tIon one fifth of the employees of the blast furnaces steel works and rolling mills work nork eighty four hours or twelve hours a day for seven days per week many of them go to theli their homes only to eat and sleep in may 1910 the period covered by the investigation it was as found that CO furnace and steel mill employees worked regularly seven days a week and tint thu ogled lighty our houra hours a week |