The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-02

l gradually ClOgglng market ana i without doubt Carnegie was glad
 enough to get from under, being 1 fully secured.
 1 A generous series of disasters of i destructive dimensions enlarged the markets that were threathened with overproduction, and this put the 1 United States Steel where it wanted ] to be. How it forced into it's ranks ! the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. l everyone knows who is familiar with the Morgan manipulation in 1 the panic Of 1907-S. In any event | the trust became the trust in earn ! est and Carnegie was secure in his millions.
 i So much for the financial end ot i the steel industry. There is quite ! another side to the romance. The I labor side is even more significant. 1 At one time the steel industry was 1 This meant that the skilled men were unionized, the unskilled were not The wages paid the skilled were very good They were better , than they are today as q general
 rule Bit by bit the companies had
 troubles with the craft organiza-
 tions and each time the craft unions
 knew that they had been up against
 something hard when they wc1e
 through. Similarly the exceedingly
 small wages which unskiiled worf-
 CTS were paid, compelled them to ask for better wages and strike
 when they did not. They generally
 lost and not being "unionmen' the
 skilled workers had no hesitation
 working with the strikebreakors.
 Although when the skilled men
 went out. the skilled as unionmc
 demanded that the uuskilled who
 were not organized come out also,
 the latter invariably did so.
 There came a strike of molders
 and other crafts in the Carnegie
 works; the unskilled asked as q
 term Of their joining that they he
 admitted to the union also and they
 wore refused They remained at
 work and took the skilled strikers
 places.
 This was really the beginning ol
 the end. Strikers afterwards were
 not so successful and slowly ana
 gradually the steel men forced
 wages down for all classes of labor
 and ultimately forced the unions
 down and out of their plants; they
 made it impossible to organize and
 forbade any attempt to attend even
 a union meeting upon the part of 1 the workers. They made liberal and
 radical use of the constant stream of immigrants who came to the
 United States, and it is only the other day that the country woke up to the fact that these didn't have a particle of love, loyalty or devotion to the United States and they be- gan to educate in citizenship the masses of the workers employed by tbese tremendous corporations.
 Consider the situation: the men worked twelve hours day for seven days a week. They obtainec 20 cents an hour oii an average, as was shown at the strike in Youngs- town. They lived in shameless novels; they were allowed neither leisure for recreation nor education. They had 10 resort to the strongest 1 of plea9ures which alone could stim- | nlate their jaded senses. They were killed at work, or maimed perma~ neHtly or were whole wrecks at the expiration of three or at nose five years. But still the immigration files kept steadily feeding the hu- man milis that ground flesh and blood into profits.
 The astonishing fact Is tflat a lot of hignbr0ws wondered at tne de- condition of these work. CTS. They were astounded at the obvious lack of any kind of loyalty pr any pride in American citizen ship. They were all worked up be- cause these slaves of industry could not appreciate the blessings of free lom and free institutions were so placed at the disposal Df native born and immigrant alike
 A lot of this astonishment may nave been buncombe pure and | a h,,t u.