The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-30
STEEL TRUST DIDN'T PLAY
FAIR EVEN WITH CATSP,

STEEL TRUST DIDN'T PLAY =.
FAIR EVEN WITH CATSPAWs
Here's how the Pittsburg leader,
unbiased authority, summarizes the
McKees Rocks ftasco In editorial:
The subsidiary of the United States
Steel Trust, known as the American
Sheet and Tin Plate company. is be-
ing repaid full mead for its. crime
against the American working1nan.
Several weeks ago this blood suck
ing corporation advertised for strike
breakers, declaring that Poles, Rou-
man1ans and '>syrians were preferred.
The advertisement brought some re-.
turns, but it has worked out in a way
far different from that which the in
solent officials of the company ex-
pected. 49,,
The Poles. Roumanians' and Syrians
are leaving the various plants by the
scores
Always incompetent to take the
places of the men on strike, these
men, drawn by the glitter Of false
promises, have found through bitter
experience what most people gathered
from the mere wording OF the dis
graceful advertisement -.
{ They have found that the American
Sheet and. TIN Plate Company is a
national gorgon that raises its Shiny,
snake-infested head only to wreak
destruction on all with whom it comes
in contact. L.,
And SO these strike breakers have
sought escape. 49,
They, too, have gone on a strike,
and as result the plants of the COM
pany are said to be completely tied
up once more.
Every true American will declare
that the carnivnrous monster: that
feeds on mems hearts in the -guise of
legitimate corporation has gotten
exactly what it deserves.
Every one will hail the defeat Of
what was virtually plan to starve
thousands Of American workmen, and
American wives, and American child
rem as an almost divine retributlon.
1t is just return for an insult Of
fered to the standards on which the
nation is founded. ~
The company has been shown that
America is and must be- for :Ameri-
cans, and that the principles whose
application has made the nation what
it is are>immutable. s 81
1t is probable that the officials are
raging inwardly at the dismal failure
Of their fiendish plan. r: :~:
With Satanic cunning they had
contrived to prevent the ends OF jus
| tice. - ,'35
So sure were they Of success; thai
they. openly displayed their cloven
boots and the long. cruel, talon-like
| nails of their grasping hands, stained
with blood Of men oppressed. =.
| 1t u.s. to be doubted 1t their plan
could have succeeded under any cir
cumstances. but its success was made
utterly imp possible by the very natures
of the men who fathered IT, -.
They could not play fair even witt,
their poor foreign catspaws. III.
They were defeated from the very
start by the omnipotenee Of their
worship at the shrine Of the great God
Greed. z-5ss.g e. / .4x q RI .::E s ..
| Their case is, similar in many re-
spects to that Of the Officials Of the
Pressed Steel Car Company at schoen-
Vile, except that the OFFICIALS, under
discussion are q little worse. @=, !
During the strike at McTSees Rocks
even though the plan was, dastardly
Americans were given 4 chance Il
work, and the Few dollars may have
seemed much to i tew who had been
long out Of employment. s,.3
/ . With the others, however, Ameri.
cans were tabooed. .. /.
They wero not wanted, probabl,
because they could not be bullcd
cheated and robbed s readiIy !.
could the more ienorant and inex.
:Iperisnced ii..lnis1 ants. s ss3
But IN both cases strike breakers
we're Offered every indnceme q
They were made rs belieys tAat III