The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-30

! II days work. s1G.SO. 12c
Check No 5.0l6-Received for
days work. $i15. 3-4c
Check No i.050-Recelved for .
days work. $1O35. 5...........111-2 1-2c
Check No l,950-Rcceivcd for o
days work. SS.45 ......... 7c
Check No 4,912-Receivod for /
! days work, $500 ........... 10c
! And the company not only refused
10 abolish the pooling system and pay
decent wages. but refused to ovon sub
init the matter to arbitration.
! Is IT any wonder that the men
struck? Is 1t any wonder that the
lew women In their midst are out with
paving stones to see what they can
do for the cause? And when the state
troops are brought into requisiuon.
not only TO maintain order but TO drive
these wretchcdly undcrpald men from
their homes. Is 1t any wonder that
somc of them lose faith In the pro-
cesScs of law and turn anarchists? We
think not We think the only wonder
Is that moro of them have not hoistcd
the nag OF revolution. The subsid-
lied press of Pittsburg-for no mo-
nopoly feels Itself completely
I II
Is calling the strikers foreign an
archlsts. The term IS Just half true.
The men arc foreign born, else they
wouldn't have Jobs with the Pressed
Steel Car company. But their an
archy was made In Piltsburg.
We suppose the governor Of the SOW
| erciGn state of Pennsylvania Is bound
| TO suppress rloting. But we should
Ike to find some tribunal that would
suppress the deylment that breeds RI.
oting. The steel manufacturers Of
! PittsburG have ben absolute masters
| OF the situation for seventeen years.
They have I'm that time perfected the
most complete organization for making
steel and spelling men that the world
| has ever seen. They have raked Eu-
rope for the lowest standard OF living
consistent with the physical strength
needed to make a god steel worker.
| From southeastern Europe. whore they
| found the combination they wished.
| they have imported laborers BY hun
dreds OF thousands until today not
! 8 per cent of the steel workers speak
| English. The steel barOns have estab.
| lished n speeding process that makes
a man past his prime at thirty-fiyc
and worn out at forty They have
established and maintained the most
! indecent and unsanitary rookerles Of
| lodging houses that the continent
holds. They have made PIt1sburg. un-
I'll year ago. the typhoid fever cap
! ital Of the world They have so beau
! tifully adjusted things that a man Is
killed ar work In the Pittsburg district
| every sixteen hours throughout the
year They have manipulated laws
and courts until the average c7mpen-
satlon a man gets for an arm Is about
SS7: for n leg. 800; for an eve little
less. and so on. They have put on
the statute books OF Pennsylvania a
law which makes It impossible for a
relative living in a foreign country TO
collect anything for man killed In
the steel business. Perhaps this helps
to explain why the companies import
so few women. They want. not citl.
zens, but serfs. They have them.
Please remember that these state
ments are not taken from the labor
crs' side OF the case. They are the
sober data gathered by the eighteen
trained sociological Investigators who
made the "Pittsburg survey" a sur
vcy paid for by Mrs. Russell Sage.
And, ponderlng these data. thus gath
cred, the News repeats that the chief
product Of the Pittsburg mills Just now
Is anarchy-anarchy for which the
land at largo must pay. For this. too.
is one OF the fruits OF protectlonism.