قراءة كتاب The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons
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achieving this essential right. It shows also in the sanity, good temper, and straightforward speech of the author what sort of leadership it is that the steel companies have decreed their workers shall not have!
John A. Fitch.
New York, June 4, 1920.
FOOTNOTE:
[1] See for example Judge Gary's testimony before the Senate Committee investigating the steel strike—October 1, 1919, pp. 161-162, of committee hearings. He told of a strike which occurred because a grievance remained unadjusted after a committee of the workers had tried to take it up with the management. The president of the company involved was for crushing the strike without knowing what the grievance was or even of the existence of the committee.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Introduction | v | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | The Present Situation | 1 |
| The strike—"Victory" of the employers—Industrial democracy abroad, industrial serfdom at home—What the workers won—The outlook. | ||
| II. | A Generation of Defeat | 8 |
| The urge for mastery—Democratic resistance—The Homestead strike—The strikes of 1901 and 1909—The Steel Trust victorious. | ||
| III. | The Giant Labor Awakes | 16 |
| A bleak prospect—Hope springs eternal—A golden chance—Disastrous delay—The new plan—A lost opportunity— The campaign begins—Gary fights back. | ||
| IV. | Flank Attacks | 28 |
| A sea of troubles—The policy of encirclement—Taking the outposts—Organizing methods—Financial systems —The question of morale—Johnstown. | ||
| V. | Breaking into Pittsburgh | 50 |
| The flying squadron—Monessen—Donora—McKeesport —Rankin—Braddock—Clairton—Homestead— Duquesne—The results. | ||
| VI. | Storm Clouds Gather | 68 |
| Relief demanded—The Amalgamated Association moves —A general movement—The conference committee— Gompers' letter unanswered—The strike vote—Gary defends steel autocracy—President Wilson acts in vain —The strike call. | ||
| VII. | The Storm Breaks | 96 |
| The Steel Trust Army—Corrupt officialdom—Clairton—McKeesport—The strike—showing by districts—A treasonable act—Gary gets his answer. | ||
| VIII. | Garyism Rampant | 110 |
| The White Terror—Constitutional Rights denied— Unbreakable solidarity—Father Kazincy—The Cossacks—Scientific barbarity—Prostituted courts—Servants rewarded. | ||
| IX. | Efforts at Settlement | 140 |
| The National Industrial Conference—The Senate committee—The red book—The Margolis case—The Interchurch World Movement. | ||
| X. | The Course of the Strike | 162 |
| Pittsburgh district—The railroad men—Corrupt newspapers—Chicago district—Federal troops at Gary —Youngstown district—The Amalgamated Association—Cleveland—The Rod and Wire Mill strike—The Bethlehem plants—Buffalo and Lackawanna—Wheeling and Steubenville—Pueblo—Johnstown—Mob rule—The end of the strike. | ||
| XI. | National and Racial Elements | 194 |
| A modern Babel—Americans as skilled workers— Foreigners as unskilled workers—Language difficulties —The Negro in the strike—The race problem. | ||
| XII. | The Commissariat—The Strike Cost | 213 |
| The Relief organization—Rations—System of distribution —Cost of Commissariat—Steel Strike Relief Fund—Cost of the strike to the workers, the employers, the public, the Labor movement. | ||
| XIII. | Past Mistakes and Future Problems |