New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-10
BLAMES MIR. CARNEGIE
"CLE4N UP PITTSBCRG.
Irvine Replies to Iron
masters attack on Socialism.

From the same pulpit n which ne pI3lS7- S-----
D. Rockefeller a week ago Alexander Irvine. the
socialist sneaker. denounced Andrew CarnsS,e iaSt
night in his talk in the Church OF the Ascension,
Fifth avenue and 18th street
Mr.. Irvine began by reading passages from what
he called Mr. Carneste's attack on socialism N one
Of the i-ournas,ers books In reply % Il Nj Irvine
quoted from The Pfrcs5urg Survey" the co1rPi-a-
ton OF the investigation OF the sociooEtsJs under
Dr. Edward T Devine. OF this city. who studied
Pittsburgs social conditions in connection win me
Sage Foundation providing for such WORK
Mr.. Carnegie" said the speaker scatteTs IL
braries broadcast for the workingmen but works
his laborers twelve hours day 50 that they Wont
have time 10 read the books" Regarding the home
Of tae steel industry he said;
Oh Pittsburg. Greatest city Of social criPPiss IN
tary and social shame in the world Ana M -
negie. before You again write another attack On
socialism ind time to clean up Ptttsours-
After quoting description or definition OF social
ism oy Mr. Carnegie who called II a Dream
mere babbIe Of words Mr.. Irvine said
Part Of the money OF the late Russell Sage-sorle
forty or fifty thousand dolars-has been uSeo - -
investigate the place circumstance ana So.I1e -
Carnesie's money, when he IS dead. may ee GsT y
IN turn TO investigate other large fortune II
9 M sag ssS f IN he W Words E 81 a 6 what
uses We have come. Horatio. m sure Ne pc ne So
would have sent his money to Pittsours loI SUN
The Pittsbrrg Survey tells Us that unions have
been killed of. practically. in PittsbUrs And tle
authority tells US that laborers in NJ t3rn@
workers in the Pennsylvania coal mines set 80 Per
cent less in wages. The reason IS oovl -.
There 17,U00 men in the Carnegie pants. ys ,
only 100 work eight hours day The rest WorE
Jgeye houIs DAY and sven DAYS , y5ons and
unionis in all the mills save the smaller have been
Tie Pittsburg Survey also tells US that Tow
wages obtain in PittsburS for the great InaJoIlC,
Standard OF living Women get half as much as The
men and one-third as much as the men VINO are
members Of unions
Quoting further from the same authority. the
speaker went or:
In 1907 there were two thousand in hospital in
Of these lost a leg each and fOrty-hve an arm
E s5 per T Se5 81 F {s hnnde Mere ked in the
same year. Lightweight Of the families LETT faith
plants received not one dollar; SO per cent got the
bare cost Of burial
Mr.. Irvine said that since 1855 there had been
$4,000 cases of typhoid in Pittsburg and 500 deaths
from the same disease. In 1907 there were 6+2I
cases Of typhoid. OF which number So died. Then
he asked:
F9frtsburg rom typhoid? Filth common. everyday
filth. Congress awarded S17,9oooo that the MYERS MYERS
might be widened that Nh Carnegie steel
CSnt 5fd Congress or Nr Carnegie grant for clean
ing Pittsburg Of IFS filth the cause Of typhoid
Mr.. Carnegie, in his attack on socialism seems
to be greatly concerned about the married woman
In half dozen places he weeps, actually Weeps
tears over the American home. Socialism, Iears
Mr. Carnegie. will result in the DESTRUCTION or the
American home. Yet DR.. Edward T, Deyine SAYS
the destruction of families by loss OF ne ana
typhoid fever in PittsburS is oVerW ne InliS ooll
causes preventable- From typhoid and accidents
yearly in Pfttsburg there one thousand deaths.
many of them women. That means almost one
thousand homes destroyed yearly in Ptttsburg hy
Mr. Carnegie. But they not homes at all. most
of the novels in which Mr.. Carnegies laooTers i've
pigsties- -
OF these things the churches in Ptttsburg are
silent, but very loud in their denunciatof Of New
York
Mr.. Carnegie, at dinner TO forty-flve or hls
associates, dwelt the fact that all but Two OF
them had been wOrkmen In the steel plants, ana
the entire forty-fve milhonaires as the
result Of their steel holdings This he advances as
an argument in favor of the present condition OF
things We do not want few big men at that
awful cost: the cost IS too dear; what We want
is a general uplift OF the Wprkingman