The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-28
A CRIME.

fcrTed. Steady employment aud
good wages TO men willing TO work
Fare paid and no fees charged,
The above advertisement appeared
In trust papers Of Pittsburg under the
caption Men Wanted"
God pity America il the country has
come to thiel
That advertisement is AN insult 10
every man through whose veins
courses the rich American bl od
The man, or men. or corporation re.
SponSible for these words Is more in-
solent than the desplcable puppet who
dares to spit upon the Stars and
Stripes. Each word is immersed IN
venom and hurled at American man
he d.
Do you frec5orn, honorable men OF
America grasp the full meaning OF this
insidious advertisement?
The sons of the republic can starve
as long as enough foreigners can be
secured TO do the work Of these capI-
taIIsts.
That birth certificate granted to
you bv the fathers who shed their
blood in sc and 81 will bar YOU from
the mills of those who profess to be
captains of American induStry
Your allegiance 10 the flag and love
for the mother country place You in
the mot wanted" class. OF these capt.
talistS whc prefer to give work to for
eigners
The very blood Of which YOU boast,
of which poets sing. and which orators
and statesmen throughout the world
praise. Will prevent you from earning
a livelihood at the rolls and furnaces
In the mills of these greedy employers
What employer would dare sign his
name to such an advertisement In the
public press?
Not the employer who Is ousting
American union men Oh, no.
But the insulted people who see that
advertisement viii know wno wants
10 employ Syrians, Poles and Rouman-
ians in preference to Americans.
The Steel Trust wants foreigners to
work in Its mills.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
Co., subsidiary of the United States
Steel Corporation. declared It's sheet
and tin mills open shops" this month.
Union men refused to work unless
the Billion Dollar Combination recog-
nized their Combination of Labor.
They are out II jobs now and the
trust is filling their places with what
they call "strike-breakers
This graSping, greedy combination
OF wealth prefers TO employ foreign
ers.
Why? Is Il easier TO grind foreign
bodies and souls into dividends? Does
this gigantic monopoly fear that the
sons OF the brave mon who won free
dom for the country and preserved and
protected it will rebel against oppres.
sion?
And this Is the same Trust that
pleaded for tariff laws which would
protect the American laborer.
What hypocrisy,
This Is the trust which appealed TO
the American people, the American
lawmakers, the American congress
foc protection for the American work
ingman
With those pleas still ringing In tho
ears CT the country, the Steel Trust
arrogantly kicks the American out OF
its mills.
1t insolcntly announces through the
public press that it win give prefer
ment to Syrians. Poles and Rouman-
ians in filling the vacancies in its
plants.
To New Castle and those other
towns where American workmen have
the mills a foreign horde Is
Invited.
Look upon Schoenyille, the Hunk
eyVillc" OF the Pressed Steel Car Co,
and YOU can sec what the steel Trust
would make of those thriving Ameri-
can towns built around its mills and
furnaces.
IL would drive the Americans from
those towns II would FIJI its mills
with foreign mon who can he reduced
% the state Of animals and converted
into beasts of burden
The Steel Trust Is right in one as
1t could never reduce Am
ericau men TO the state in which the
OF The Pressed Steel Car Co.
are found in Schoenville.
The American is no slave. Nor can
he be purchased. body and soul for II
stand idle and see his wife and chill
dren SppYel In poverty and beg for
the crumbs which fall from the cm.
ployer's table,
Syrians. Poles and Roumanians NAV
be dubbed and driven and fed with
the slop and swlll their pitlful wages
Will purchase
But the American can never be re-
duced 10 that state of desperation
where his spirit Is killed and his heart
is broken.
The Steel Trust is not advertising
for mon TO I'LL humble positions II
wants skilled workmeu. But preference
is TO be given to the foreigners.
The so,called mUckraker has pointed
10 Schoenville and the other sore and
fostering spot In the Pittsburg dis.
trIct
Pi'tsburg with natural pride REBEL.
ed against exaggerated criticism.
But II 1t had thousand tongues
each should repeat from The house
tops the words of ehis advertisement
80 that every American In the coun-
try might know that he. his flag, his
children and the parents VINO gave
him birth have been brazenly insult.
ed by this insolent Trust.
In Washington there sits congress.
The representative of the American
people. In the White House there Is =
man, William n, Taft. In whom AmerI.
,ans haNo placed their trust and con.
Hdence. ::
If these statesmen have ears let