The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-08-24
THE STEEL STRIKE

hS SICdt StGSl 10 bSiiA va |
and from all indications will contin-
ue for al lndefinate period
Within the last few days, the
steal magnates seem TO have gotten
the better of the strikers, several
train loads of southern non-unlon
workmen have been brought INTO
Plttsburg and one mill after another
is being started.
To their great credit be it said
that no acts of violence have as yet
been committed by the strikers.
Cn Aug 18th, the Monessen
mills in Plttsburg were to have
started, and did start, but only
a small part of the great plant was
moving. 1t was predicted tha,
+ trouble would result but, still the |
strikers; are orderly. 1t strikes rs
that the great steel trust is acting
most unwlsely, IN endeavoring TO
drive Unionism out of existence at
the great cost of prosperity, for
such the attempt will prove. No man
or class of men have a right IN this
free country Of ours to challenge
a working mans right 10 organize
in defence Of his rights, of his fami-
ly, and we add his very existence.
There is no earthly reason excep,
greed for a working man not to be-
long to union. AZ long rs. industry
lis organized, labor unionlsm will
exlstand all the wealth of Carnegies
Schwab and Morgan can't stop 1t. AS
great corporations are formed with
millions upon millions of capital at
their back, so unions will spring up.
| Were 1t not SO there would come a
time when these great concerns
would not only control trade com
pletelY, but the very life of every
man and his family III their employ.
They would, as they to some ex-
tent now do, control elections In
fact they would virtually own the
earth. We do not say that organized
and combined industries are to be
cried down, they are the outcome
of commercial advancement, and
fill certain place in the worlds
market, so also with the unions.
| They are as it were safety valve,
that whenever the Trusts get TOO
pulled up, bloated and domaneerlny
a certain amount of Union pressure
brings down the Trusts to norm Il
Conditions.
Il In this strike, the out come Of
which we ferventIy hope will be
s favorable to the Amalgomated
| Unions. The strikers will be the
chief lonsers though they gam their
point
What they loose In wages il gone
forever, whereas, what the steel
people have lost will be regained by
the advance in price of steel and
iron.
The Wall street Journal said last
week; that no settlement Of the
strike favorable TO the unions would
be made as long as Schwab had
charge of the Steel trust conferences
that Mr.. Schwab's experience IN the
Carnegie works naturally led him
to take strong stand against any
policy which might strengthen
: labor unions IN the steel Co.'S mills.
Does Mr.. Schwab ever remember
that there vas time when he was
in the very position the strikers are
today, and that unions were good
lnstutlons then? does he ever realise
that every workman under him /.
OF the same stuff that he is made
of, and due as much consideration
or does he ever think of the work
ing man at all? A man tina,
can go before an investigating com
= mittee and swear as he did, that the
s value of stock issued by the stee
: trust was far below the actual valus
when he knew that some stock was
watered some $500, 600. 100000 wortl
isn't man that can be trusted fal
beyond ones sight. Strikes ar
e things to be regretted at all time
/ but when the condition Of thing
i gets to the point where they did il
q the steel Co.'s mills If Il tima {,