| Abstrakt: |
The article focuses on the failure of the steel strike, that begun on September 22 and was called off on January 8. There were grievances, notably the twelve-hour day, as the strikers' demands showed and the honest investigator can easily satisfy himself that the strike was essentially a trade-union struggle of the old type, not a wild, revolutionary undertaking, incited by "red" agitators. Everywhere in the steel towns there has been labor shortage. There has been an exodus of workers, especially of foreigners who have taken the opportunity of returning to the old country now the war is over. Many of them will never come back and notwithstanding the sudden enthusiasm of the companies for "American" workers. |
