Show I THE PITTSBURG STRIKE I Denver Denyer I it steel that Is thai tho chief chlof prod product of Pittsburg manufacture these das It even een tenderloin scan hals I It Is anarchy fuw savage hopeless desperate anarchy hats has long been an Important of Uie most protected city In the lie world anti now the lie byproduct has won to first place Six men were kled killed and a doz dozen n more severely hurt In a rIot night before last S Several orl other others killed a a couple o of da days s earler earlier The of the tho sovereign protect protected ed state of Pennsylvania are being used as the constabulary of Ireland Ireland were once evict helpless pen penniless from the hovels that they have hitherto born been able aulo to cal call home For the tho Pressed Steel Cr Car company takes no chancel chances I It owns the rw raw It owns time the markeL thanks tl tO the ho sacro tarl tariff It it j owns the workmen and as a last measure of precaution It owns tue tho J Jonh only onh homes In Iii which the workmen cn can le live When Macbeth ProPosed to take a bond of oC fate and make assure doubly sure lie he was dimly fore fore forecasting casting the tho which for Cor sonic somo years past tins has characterized d the steel stee industry of the tue Pittsburg region One with a of dramatic fitness that th also preferred his bis bonds In blood I IThe The present strike Is the blackest I dIsgrace that hat has been brought home I Ito to an any American commonwealth for fOI n a ngen gen alon And the ity for Cor Corthe forthe the strike and al all the horrors which may go wih the strike rests abs on the Ule Pressed Steel Car corn com I pan pany It may be necessary to Iowa down rioter rioters but I it 11 Is quIte a as CHar esary to remember who c causel the tho therioL riot rioL The Pressed Steel Car com company pan has adopted the lie poolIng system of oC paying for Its rather rathor of oC not paying for lie tho saro same rho fhe company compan Ic de determines ermines the price It nfl 1 pa for a car and then lion apportions this prIce among the lie different gangs of men In the tho different departments Al All spoiled is charged 1 up to tho ho pool pooh that hat is to the ho who are arc lumped humped together In the tho group mak makIng tag Ing n a ghen car Al All blunders of fore Core men all the lie and unavoidable aJ accidents of constructIon are charged ilp lip to tho ho pool pool It is heads the tho com compan pan pany wins tails the lie pol pool los loses s No workmen knows ti lie he gets his fa pay paycheck check how much lie he Is going to get gel geland and thon i it Is usually S so 1 little as to tobe be worth wondering about Hero Is a sworn of a series or of orpa pa pay checks received b by th so men who are arc being against pau pauper pauper per labor JU JUNE E 15 1009 S Per Hour Chock Check No for 5 days das work Sc Check No o for 9 2 work lOc c Check No for 7 da hays s work 5 JUNE 30 1909 Check No 17 for 3 days work 1 Check No for 4 hays work DOe Oc 2 Check No o for 13 ds woric wort 1 I Check o for Cor Cordas 1 lays das work 12 Check No o for forI I 11 days work J Check No Con 1 wOk Ll 10 0 alc Check No o i days work ii Check Chieck No for 5 days work 1 Ch cle No 1 hays work worl 4 Sr lOc An And Ile lie company not only refused to Lo tho pooling and pa pay t wages refused to oven I thit the lie matter l to is In It am any wondo wonder that the tho men I struck Is It an my wonder that lint the tho few fea women lii In their midst are out with J paving stones to see what they can I Ido ho do for the tho calse cause AlII when the staLe I arc ure Inlo hito requisition not only to maintain hut to hive I thee a men muon rom I their homos Is It an that Homo of them thioni hose 1080 f faith In the he pro I of law antI tun turn anarchists WC e I not nol Vo iVe think the lie only emily wonder I Is that hint moro of thorn them hn have 0 not hoisted UI Uie lag flag of Time ho I Iz d press of no mo lao fee feels itself completely I I without I a press Is cahling the thie strikers foreign an Th The term cnn Is Just half true The men aro foreign born they I have hae joInt Johs wIh the lie Pressed Steel Car company lut their an I arch was mare In Pittsburg C 0 suppose the lie or of lie tho SO soy I State of Pennsylvania Is hound I to sUppress rioting lImit Dut we should i ilke to Ind find sonic some trIbunal that would I I suppress the t that 11 i The steel manufacturers or of have hae hen absolute masters I I or of the tho situation for seventeen years I They The have lii In that tinie perfected lie tho I I complete organizatIon for making steel and spoilIng men that lint the tho world I Ihas has loon seen The have havo raked Eu I rope ropo for the lie lowest lowest standard of living consistent with time tho physical strength needed to make a god steel worker I From southeastern Europe whore the lucy found Cound time tho combination they wished the they havo Imported laborers h by hun hundreds I of thousands until torn today not 3 per cent of the tho steel workers speak English Flue he steel barons have a speeding process that makes n a Ua mann hIs prime at fe i and wor worn out at Cort forty The They ha have i established and aud the tho most I indecent and unsanitary rookeries of I I lodging houses that time the continent holds bolds They have hao made Pittsburg un an tl II a year ear ag ago tho he typhoid fever cap I i In hal of the world The They have so beu I I adjusted things thai thiaL a man Is kJer killed nt at work ork In the lie Pittsburg district sixteen hours throughout the year The They have hae manipulated laws and courts courts untIl te the average I a ma man gets gels for an arm Is abut about Si 87 for Cor a log for an eye a little I Iless I less and so on Tho They havo put on the statute books or of Pennsylvania a law whIch makes I it for Cor a I relative living In n a foreign country to collect collect an anything for a man killed In Inho tho ho st steel l business Perhaps this helps to why Uw the companies les Import Imports s so few Cow women Thoy want not zens but serfs They The have thor thorn Please remember that bat these state statements ments are not taken front Cram the tho labor laborers ers eua side of oC tho h cae case Tho Thoy ao are to the sober dat data gathered b by the eighteen trained sociological Investigators who made the survey a sur I 0 paid for by br Mrs Irs Russell Sage And these data hata thul thus gath ered the News repeats that to the chlof product of the ho mIs mills jutt jut now is 18 for Cor which the I hand at largo large must pa pay For this to too I Is one of the fruits of protectionism I |