THE STEEL COMBINE.
SERIOUS CHARGES BY AMERICAN DEPARTMENT. GALLEY-SLAVE CONDITIONS. New York. January 29. The Department of Commerce, in a report, accuses the steel corporations of maintaining a system of laoour as enslaving as the old-time galleys. Only 14 per cent, of the 173,000 employees in the blast furnaces, steel works and rolling mills worked Jess than 60 hours weekly. Forty-three prer cent, worked 7 2 hours, or over. Of 173,000 employees, 13,868 earned below 14 cents an hour, and 20,507 below 16 cents, and 51,417 below 18 cents. * The companies were gradually elimnating the skilled artisans and replacing them with unskilled at 7d an hour. They were recruited from recent immigrants. Their week consists of seven working days. General workers are moved each week from the day to the night shift, compelling them to remain on duty from 18 to 24 hours. Eighteen hour shifts were the rule on some plants.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 30, 30 January 1912, Page 5
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152THE STEEL COMBINE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 30, 30 January 1912, Page 5
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