United labor bulletin., 1910-03-18

bill was Immediately tabled-coupled
with two other bills.
Do you see the light?
in speaking 10 the motion of MI
Hughes, MIR. Rainey Numbered the fol
lowing into the ears of the government
stealing capital combination
No man knows how much the United
States is losing al the present time on ac-
count of the strike at Bethlehem. Not
long ago, on account of the failure of the
government to furnish in time to the
Cramp Shipbuilding company armor plate
and other apparatus which was manuIac-
tured by some of these private compan-
les, the Cramp & Sons company sustain
ed a loss. They brought suit against this
government in the courts for $4,000 and
won. These are little revenue cutters
that you desire built-is it not possible
that we can build them in our govern
ment yards? over in Japan they build
great Dreadnoughts' in their govern
ment yards
Il submit that the time has come in
this country when in our shipyards, at
least. we should have an eight-hour day
They are doing it in Germany. Over there
they have established almost universal
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shifts in their factories, keeping these
great plants that cost millions of dollars
in use for all of the twenty-four hours in
the day.
AT Bethlehem they are not organized
You cannot charge that strike against
labor. Up there they are compelling men
to work twelve and fourteen hours day.
They are compelling men to work on
Sunday. When a committee of workmen
was appointed to protest against working
two hours overtime without time-and-a-
half pay, the committee was at once dis
charged by Charles NJ. Schwab, and this
way the strike at Bethlehem commenced
where to-day 10000 men are out of work
and government contracts are delayed.
Representative Fassett is the leader
for the steel corporation in this contro-
versy, and is resorting to all the tricks of
parliamentary usage.
The killing of the Hungarian steel
worker, Joseph Szambo who was looking
from hotel window when shot through
the head by the State Constabulary at
Bethlehem. has been taken up by Baron
Won Hengervar, ambassador from Austria
Hungary. and will compel the United
States government to make official in
vestigation, to be followed. if the facts
presented are sustained, by punishment
of the trooper, John T. Monaghan of Com
pany B, and monied reparation to the
dead mans family.
The action of the Austria-Hungarian
embassy was brought about by the ar
rival in Washington of a committee from
the Bethlehem striking steel workers,
the American Federation Of Labor, who
had been given a power of attorney by
the wife and children of the dead Hun
garian.
Is there any question that the strike at
Bethlehem is not the outcropping of one
of the greatest systems of capital cor
ruption in the world? The Standard Oil
company is not greater because they are
interviewer as a part of the system with
the steel corporation, through the Ma
tional City bank and the Morgan banking
interests.
The street car strike in Philadelphia
is but flash of red light in comparison
with these other abuses as the street car
strike will soon be won and will pass into
history while the corruption from the
steel corporation will go on as long as
the government continues as at present
constituted. It will continue because the
greatest combinations of capital the
world has ever known have so corrupted
official manhood, have so degraded and
educated young manhood to their way of
doing business that it seems most i'm
possible to change it without revolu
ton. And when revolution comes new
government will follow. for do not the
Scriptures teach us that great republics
shall rise and fall?
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