The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1909-08-13

NOT WANTED
Steel Trust Brazenly
HurIS Defiance at the
American Workmen.

Steady employment and good wages
to men willing to work. Fare paid
and no fees charged.
The above advertisement appeared in
the caption, Men Wanted.
God pity America if the country has
come to this
That advertisement is an insult to
every man through whose veins courses
the rich American blood.
The man, or men, or corporation re
sponsiblc for these words is more inso-
lent than the despicable puppet who
dares to spit upon the Stars and Stripes.
Each word is immersed in venom and
hurled at American manhood.
Do you freedom, honorable men of
America grasp the fun meaning of this
insiduous advertisement.
The sons of the republic can starve
as long as enough foreigners can be Sc
cured to do the work of these capitalists.
That birth certificate granted to you
by the fathers who shed their blood in
'7G and 81 will bar you from the mills
of those who profess to be captains of
American industry
Your allegiance to the flag and love
for the mother country place you in
the mot wanted" class OF these capital
lists who prefer to give work to foreign
ers
The very blood of which you boast
of which poets sing and which orators
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
public press?
Not the employer who is ousting
American union men. Oh. no.
But the insulted people who see that
advertisement will know who wants to
employ Syrians, Poles and Roumanians
in preference to Americans.
The Steel Trust wants foreigners to
work in its mills.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
Company. a subsidiary of the United
States Steel Corporation, declared its
sheet and tin mills open shop last
month.
Union men refused to work unless the
Billion Dollar Combination recognized
their Combination of Labor.
They are out of Jobs now and the
trust is filling their places with what
they call "strike breakers
This grasping, greedy combination of
wealth prefers to employ foreigners,
Why? Is it easier to grind foreign
bodies and souls into dividends? Does
this gigantic monopoly fear that the
sons of the brave men who won freedom
for the country and preserved and pro
tected it will rebel against oppression?
And this is the same trust that plead
ed for tariff laws which would protect
the American laborer
What hypocrisy!
This is the trust which appealed to
the American people, the American law
makers. the American congress for pro
lection for the American workingman.
With those pleas still ringing in the
ears of the country, the steel trust ar
rogantly kicks the American out of its
mills
1t insolently announces through the
public press that it will give preferment
to Syrians, Poles and Roumanans in
filling the vacancies in its plants.
To New Castle and those other towns
where American workmen have manned
the mills foreign horde is invited
Look upon Schoenville, the "EIunkey-
vile" of the Pressed Steel Car Company
and you can see what the Steel Trust
would make of those thriving American
towns built aroud its mills and furnaces.
| towns uullJ aIOuHu It's luiliS anu i"i
naces.
1t would drive the American from
those towns. 1t would fill its mills
with foreign men who can be reduced to
the state of animals and converted into
beasts of burden
The Steel Trust is right in one as
sumption. 1t could never reduce Amer
lean men to the state in which the enl-
ployees OF the Pressed Steel Car Com
pany are found in Schoenville.
The American is no slave. Nor can
he be purchased, body and soul, for 10
or II cents an hour lie will not stand
idle and see his wife and children crovel
in poverty and beg for the crumbs which
fall from the employers table.
Syrians, Poles and Roumanians may
be cmbbed and driven and fed with tie
slop and swil their pitiful wages will
purchase
But the American can never be re.
dueed to that state of desperation where
his spirit is killed and his heart broken
The Steel Trust is not advertising fol