The greatest strike which this country has ever known is now fairly begun. The workmen of a number of the constituent companies of the great Billion-Dollar Steel Trust, the United States Steel Corporation, have gone out and threaten to take with them the greater part of the employ~ ces of that corporation. By to-morrow the numbers are expected to reach nearly 100, 000. The whole number of employees is slightly over 200,000 and the greater portion are union men.
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