The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . were per-mitted to seek work in the mill onany terms they could get. Thestruggle had lasted twenty weeks,had cost a score of lives, millionsof dollars, and, so far as any one could then see, had benefitednobody. With the perspective afforded by lapse of time, however, itcan now be seen that this titanic struggle was not in vain.(Greatly as the suffering attending it must be deplored—suffer-ing that ceased not with the official declaration of peace by theAssociation lodges, but stayed throughout the winter with thefamilie
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . were per-mitted to seek work in the mill onany terms they could get. Thestruggle had lasted twenty weeks,had cost a score of lives, millionsof dollars, and, so far as any one could then see, had benefitednobody. With the perspective afforded by lapse of time, however, itcan now be seen that this titanic struggle was not in vain.(Greatly as the suffering attending it must be deplored—suffer-ing that ceased not with the official declaration of peace by theAssociation lodges, but stayed throughout the winter with thefamilies of many of the strikers—it is nevertheless evidentthat the marvellous prosperity which, a year or two later, fol-lowed this struggle was made possible because of it. Themental and moral attitude of the workmen towards their em-ployers and towards other workmen which found expression inthe savagery of the attack on the companys watchmen, in theuse of dynamite, burning oil, and,the wounding of defencelessprisoners, belonged to a barbaric past, and was wholly incom-. Unconditional surrender !—From the Chicago Times. HA LI--WAV J)0]\X MA(;ARA 251 patible with modern industrialism. The usurpation of thefunctions of government, the summary arrest and punishment ofinoffensive citizens, and the displays of lawless arrogance by theAdvisory Committee, implied a misconception of the mutualrights and duties of laborers and employers which could only bedestructive of that harmonious co-operation essential to prog-ress; and thoroughly imbued with false ideas as the workmenwere, nothing but the most drastic measures would have sufficedfor their correction. One of the most intelligent of the strikers told the Senatecommittee of investigation that when the workmen found them-selves confronted with a gang of loafers and cutthroats fromall over the country, coming there, as the)- thought, to taketheir jobs, why, they naturally wanted to go down and defendtheir homes and their property and
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