It looks as though the threatened strike in the United States steel industry will eventuate unless at this Into hour President Roosevelt is able to find means of meeting the demands which have been put forward by representatives of the Steel Union. 'The communication which they have addressed to the President is as remarkable for its strength of expression as it is for the @iscourteous manner' in which it is phrased. The Union movement must, naturally, stand or fall on the question of collective bargaining between labour and the leaders of the steel industry. 'The fight which the latter are putting up follows classic lines, and is aimed at the frustrating lof the workers' design.to form union representing all' - labour steel, and replacing it by a. series of company unions which might find is very diteult to secure unanimity of action. Fights of this nature are always sound to be more severe than those which arise over questions of wages or working conditions. On the question of recognition there can be no compromise. The workers have either to win oF lose what they are struggling for, and to lose It would mean the "indefinite postponement of all that the workers: have in mind to obtain. The danger that is most apparent is that the struggle may spread from the steel industry to allied undertakings and consequently assume proportions which may" give, Washington cause for even greater anxiety than it is experiencing at the present moment. Should it extend so much as to assume the complexion of a general strike the government might be greatly embarrassed and might easily witness the destruction' of all that has been achieved up to the present.
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