The labor standard., 1910-01-01
MUTUAL PROTECTION
Labor Called to Resist Steel
 Trusts War on UniOniSm.
TO FIGHT OPEN SHOP RULE.

 Moral and Financial Support-Sus- gestion as to Raising Funds-AII Workers Asked to Contribute.
 War was formally declared upon the United States Steel corporation by leaders of organized labor throughout the United States and Canada at the recent conference at Pittsburg, which was presided over by Samuel Con- pers. The grievances of organized la Dor against the steel corporation as set forth in resolution have been for warded to President Taft and the United States senate and house of rep resentatives. The governors of the states in which the trust owns plants or has interests will also receive copies. The resolution says in part:
 "A crisis in the affairs of labor has arisen. The gigantic trust the United States Steel corporation, is using its great wealth and power in an effort to rob the toilers of their right of Amer ican manhood and of the opportunity to resist its further encroachments.
 Grown rich by the consent of the people of our country this corporation in its mad greed for still greater riches sweeps aside, makes and unmakes law, its enactors and executors, and is now engaged in an effort to destroy the only factor, the organizations of it's employees, standing between it and unlimited, unchecked and unbridled industrial political, social and moral
 1t fi,& etA os any vir;le power ill our time and life to check the abso- lute autocratic domination of civic, in- dustrial and political life of our people and our republic it must be found in the indomitable will and mission of the much misunderstood and misrep resented organiza tions of labor.
 ''The United States Steel corporation has declared war on labor. In it's se cret councils this corporation has de- creed that the only obstacle to it's con- plete sway, organized labor, shall be crushed. The labor organizations con- sist of its employees, the workers, their wives and little ones, human flesh and blood. It is by their labor that they live. They have no purpose other than safeguarding their lives, their charac- ter, their future, the safety of the re- public and humanity.
 '"These factors now confront each other. By their purposes, attitude and actions must they be judged.
 "On June 1, 1909, the United States Steel corporation proclaimed it's decree of hostility toward labor. The right of the workers to associate for their common protection was no longer to be recognized or tolerated.
 Accompanying that decree was a notice of further reduction in the al- ready scant wages of the workers. The decree went into effect July 1, 1909.
 we therefore urge that an earnest effort be made to thoroughly organize all employees in the iron, steel and tin plate industry and subsidiary corelat- ed trades.
 Owing to the immediate pressing necessity caused by the present strike and the indefensble hostile attitude of the United States Steel corporation we earnestly call upon all national and international unions of America to send at least one organizer to assist in this work. We further urge and recommend that in all places where mills are located the central labor or ganizations appoint special committees with instructions to cooperate in this xuork Eor adnnatinna nurnnsas IRa