Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-09-21
The Revolving Steel
Trust Conditions
to be Reproduced
IN Bread Making


Icapitalistic combine which also has
its fingers in the pie ii the effort to
monopoiize the bread market.
The report Of this government Of
fetal plainly showed that it is a com
mon rule in the iron and steel indus
try to require twelve hours work per
day, seven days work week, Of
workers In the mills, and that the
average wages paid is only from 18l
to % cents an hour.
The seven-day working week is not
confined to the blast furnace depart
ment, where there is "a metallurgi cal
necessity. for continuous operations,
but also was found to a considerable
extent in other departmentF for COM
mercial reasons only.
Much of the Sunday work is no
more necessary than other indus
tries. says the report.
5, Added significance attaches to the
conditions Of labor in the iron and
steel industries in comparison with
the general tendency in other indus
tries for years past toward shorter
working day.
In the baking industry the orga-
nized workers also are striving to
achieve a-shorter workday, and con-
siderable progress has been made
along these lines. The appearance
Of the Steel Trust through the Ward
Bread Company seeking to indicate
that a like fate would befall the
the workers in the baking industry il
the Steel Trust is permitted to have
everything it's own way.
The bakery workers will not sub
init to such conditions, hence their
present fight against the bread mo-
nopolists and their hacker. the Steel
Trust interests.
The bakery workers do not propose
to let the steel Trust, through the
Bread Trust, duplicate the nefarious
conditions in the baking industry
which have been reported as existing
in the steel industry, according to the
report mentioned above.
They purpose to fight with all their
might any movement and any tenden-
cies that propose to change to the
worst anything in the conditions
which the bakery workers have SO far
been successful in gaining.
The bakery workers do not propose
to permit the Bread Trust to follow
the same methods as the Steel Trust
employed when it crushed the organi-
zations Of the steel and iron workers
In order to be able to force upon
them such terrible conditions as have
now been brought to the attention Of
the government
Should not the public become hOrri-
fed at the conditions revealed through
this government Investigation?
Should the people not emphatically
voice their protests against such In
humane conditions? Should they not
raise an emphatic protest in behalf Of
these poor slaves, demanding for
them proper protection from the gov
.ernment?
And demand such protection for
ALL workers who are likely to be
fleeced in the same contemplate
manner by the few who are seeking
to monopolize every industry for their
own benefit.
If the people of this country do not
come to the aid of the bakery workers
in this present struggle against the
Bread Trust. the bakery workers will
in time and a time not so far away
be condemned to the same fate as
that which has become the lot Of the
workers in the steel and iron indus
try.
4 They will be compelled to work as
many days per week and as many
hours per day as the Bread Trust will
demand of them.
They win be compelled to accept
STARVATION wages for their labor.
4 The purchasing power of their
earnings will be greatly $ decreased
and the business people with whom
they have to deal VIII have to suffer |
likewise. The Bread Trust win UNI
mercifully fleece the bakery workers,
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