The Archive · 1936

Expounding the Finesse

The {elegram stating that a strike In the United States steel trade was amos inevitable," "i contrmed. before the "threatened "action parently some. time must cla

comes possible, for it is clear that reform of the company-union system necessary, with the. passage "of control to ihe Commilise. for industrial Organization Representatives Council. "The steel industry has. be organized from the workers' polar of view, a war chest has to be accumulated, and then, unless the demand of labour can be met, another severe Industrial crisis will stare the United States in the face. The situa: tion ig all the more anxious when the uration of the present shipping! aube is recalled, and the slatement the men's leaders that they are prepared to carry on until Apeil if necessary.. If" the steel workers demand, os dt is suggested they will, USS a day, with the thirty hour working week, they will be asking something' which the employers. will Rot be too ready to concede. There may, between now and the time when Tabour is ready to strike, be plenty of opportunity to negotlai, and it 3 fo be hoped" that this "course. will Dung about a settlement, for. strikes such as the one in being. and this one Whiet is threatened, have a decidedly harmful effect upon the economic of any nation, and the setback to the Drogress of the United States. out of the depression must of necessity" be correspondingly gre

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