The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912. CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 64, 8 November 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912. CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

The great struggle between /the Trusts and the Labour Unions in America continues, and much bitterness is shown. Capital, according to a writer in “Collier’s Weekly,” has so far been victorious in the fight, all along the line, and the great trusts have made the rooting out of organised labour from their works a cardinal point in their administration. In 1901 the Steel Trust resolved:—“That we. are unalterably opposed to any extension of union labour and advise subsidiary companies to take firm positions when these questions come up and say they are not going to recognise it—that is, any extension of unions in mills where they do not now exist.’ That policy, says “Collier’s,” has been ruthlessly carried out. The Steel Trust has crushed unionism wherever it has met it, and the men who work for the Steel Trust to-day have no organisation whatever. This ability of the great combinations of capital to overcome combinations of workmen is confidently relied upon by the advocates of trusts as one of the savings of combination. A strike in one branch of a trust’s operations simply means the transfer of ail work to another locality, and the effect is to break the strike. It is 'dated that a similar position has arisen in Germany, where an extensive Steel r i rust exists. There, however, the Government lends its aid by permitting a provision in all its contracts i(“leasing the contractors from all ohliguion lo complete or carry out works contracted for in the event of a strike, 'these facts are brought out in an avtic'e hearing on the American Presidential election, “Collier’s” being much opposed to Mr Taft—and incidentally to Trusts.