WHITE SLAVES.
STEEL COMPANIES SERIOUSLY INDICTED. WEEK OF SEVEN WORKING DAYS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrights. NEW YORK, 29th January. The Department of Commerce has issued a report in which it accuses the steel corporations of maintaining a system of labour as enslaving as the old-time "galleys. Only ""14 per cent*, out of 173,000 employees at tho blast furnaces, steelworks, and rolling mills •worked less than sixty hours weekly, while 43 per cent, worked seventy-two hours or over. Of the 173,000 workers 13,86 C earned below 14 cents (7d) an hour, 20,527 "below 16 cents, and 51,417 below 18 cents. The companies were gradually, •■eliminating skilled artisans and replacing them with unskilled men at 7d an hour, recruited from: recent immigrants. , , - The week consists of eeven working days, and general workers were moved each week from the day to the nighti sliift, compelling them to remain on duty from eighteen to twenty-four hours. Eighteen-hour shifts were tho rule in some plante.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1912, Page 7
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