The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-07-31
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the American union men. Oh, not
- But the insulted people who SEQ
that advertisement will know who
wants to employ syrians, Podea ana
RoNmanians In preference to Anert
cans. s,.sS5 .ss5.,, $5ig ,s5 ss.is 4
.sTHE sTEEL TRUST WANTS;
FOREIGNERS To- WORK IN ITS.
MILLS. I aSss ss555 s|& +, i 70
,"The American Sheet and Tin Plate
company, q subsidiary OF the United
States Steel, corporation, declared Its
sheet and tin mills open shops this
month. Z: i: -, b., - -.&.s&: IT,,
Union men refused to work unless
the Billion Dollar Combination ,recog-
nized their. Combinations 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 free
and protected it will rebel against OPP
preston? = -. y .sszz
AND, THIS IS THE sAiMD TRUST
THAT PLEADED FOR TARIFF
LAWS WHICH WOULD PROTECT
THE AMERICAN LARQRER~ - t.. - =,
What hypocrisy! .+.. Il - -.
"This is the trust which appealed to
the American people. the American
lawmakers, the American congress for
projection for the American working
man., - 1.,':, 80 ~
!. with those pleas still, ringing in
the ears Of the country, the steel trust
arrogantly kicks the American out Of
it's mills. :. J..
1T insolently announces through the
b public press that it will give prefer
!!ence to Syrians, Poles and Ro,1mant-
ans in filling the vacancies in it's
plants. " =. a..
"To New Castle and those other
towns where American workmen have
manned the mills a foreign horde is
invited.
. LOOK upon Schoenville, the Hunk
eyville' of the Pressed Steel Car COM
pany and you can see what the steel
trust would make Of those thriving
American owns built around its mills
and furnaces. =. 4 g..
1T would drive the Americans from
those towns. It would fill its mills
with foreign men who can be reduced
to The state of animals and converted
into beasts of burden. > x
"The Steer Trust is right in one as
sumption. It can never reduce
American men to the state in which
the employees Of the Pressed Steel Car
company are found in Schoenville
''The American is no slave. Nor can
he be purchased. body and soul, for
10 or II cents an hour. He: will not
stand idle and see his wife and chill
dren grovel in poverty and beg: for
the crumbs which fall from the en-
ployer's table, :..>..
"Syrians, Poles and Roumaniane
may be clubbed and driven and fed
with the slop and swiH their pitiful
wages will purchase. But the Am
erican can never. be reduced ia that
state Of desperation, where his spirit
Is killed and his heart id broken. ID: rs Is
The Steel Trust lii n0Tl advertiaine
for men to fiji humble positions, s5It
wants skilled workmen. BUT PREF
ERENCE is TO BE GIVEN TO THE
FOREIGNERS. -: ~
'"*The so-called =muckraker has point
ed to schoenvllle and. the either sozs
spots In the Pittsburg district,
"Pfttsburg with; natural pride re
belled against Exaggerated criticism.
But If it had a thousand tongi1es
each should repeat from the ho use
tops the words Of this advertisement
50 that every American in the countr,
might know that he, his flag, his Chi.
dren and the parents who gave him
birth have been brazenly insulted by
this inselent trust. - -.
The American Congress-.
I'm Washington there sits congress.
the representative. of the American
people. In the White House there is
man, William H. Taft, IN whom Am
orleans have placed their trust ane
confidence. :,
If these statesmen have cars lei
hem hear the insulting words the
Steel Trust splits into the face of the
American. wurkingmen.
Let these men, In whose hands the
people have placed the destiny of their
fair land, know that this pulling infant
they coddle and nourish, H. a hydra
headed monster spewing words of in
science upon Americans and the brain
and Drawn of the republic, S,,s. $.
And If these men In Washington
DO not believe their ears, let them
use their eyes. Let them look at: the
sore spots, the Poverty Rows, where
I there should be settlements OF men
and their families living like decent
Americans. Or let them focus their
eyes upon the red flag Haunted in the
races Of American workingmen when
they are told that syrtans, Poles and
Roumantans are preferred in the mills
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