The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1909-11-12
THE STEEL TRUST.
American Federation Of Labor

The subsidiary of the United States
Steel Trust, known as the American
Sheet and Tin Plate Company, is being
repaid full mead for its crime against
the American workiugman.
Several weeks ago this blood-sucking
corporation advertised for strike break
ers, declaring that Poles, Roumanians
and Syrians were preferred.
The advertisement brought some re
turns, but it has worked ont in a way
far different from that which the in
solent officials of the company ex-
pected.
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 disgraceful advertise
ment.
They have found that the American
Sheet and Tin Plate Company is a ma
tional gorgon that raises its Shiny,
snakeinfested head only to wreak de
struction on all with whom it comes in
contact.
And so these strike breakers have
sought escape.
They, too, have gone on a strike, and
as a result the plants Of the company
are said to be completely tied up once
more
Every true American will declare that
the carnivorous monster that feeds on
mems hearts in the guise of a legiti-
mate corporation has gotten exactly
what it deserves.
Every one will hail the defeat OF what
virtually a plan to starve thousands of
American workmen and American
wives, and American children as an al.
most divine retribution.
It is a Just return for an insult Of
fered to the standards on which the ma
ton is founded
The company has been shown that
American is and must be for Americans,
and that the principles whose applica-
tion has made the nation what it is are
immutable
It is probable that the officials are
raging inwardly at the dismal failure
OF their fiendish plan.
With Satanic cunning they had con-
trived TO prevent the ends Of justice.
So sure were they OF success that
they openly displayed their cloven hoofs
and the long, cruel talon-lke nails of
their grasping hands, stained with
blood Of men oppressed.
1t is to be doubted if their plan could
have succeeded under any circumstances,
but its success was made utterly i'm
possible by the very nature of the men
who fathered it.
They could not play fair even with
their poor foreign catspaws.
They were defeated from the very
start by the omnipotenee of their wor-
ship at the shrine of the great God
Greed.
Their case is similar in many respects
to that Of the officials of the Pressed
Steel Car Company at Schoenville, ex-
cept that the officials under discussion
are a little worse.
During the strike at McKees Rocks,
even though the plan was dastardly,
Americans were given a chance to work,
and the few dollars may have seemed
much to few who had been long out
of employment.
With the others, however, Americans
were tabooed.
They were not wanted, probably be,
cause they could not be bullied cheated
and robbed as readily as could the more
ignorant and inexperienced immigrants.
But in both cases strike breakers
were offered every inducement.
They were made TO believe that the
work was almost Utopian in character,
and were promised good pay, good food
and kind treatment.