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Send for Index, Volume XXX, now ready for subscribers Any person wishing a copy of this picture may mail to us 10 Ivory Soap Wrappers, on receipt of which we will send a copy (without printing) on enamel plate paper, 14 x 17 inches, a suitable size for framing. THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI. COPYRIGHT 1900 BY THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI PUBLIC OPINION Volume XXXI, Number 4 Thursday, 25 July, гgor We have never been arrogant in insisting that men join our organization or leave the union mills. The statement that we wish the companies to bind themselves to employ only union men is a deliberate falsehood. We do not ask even recognition of the union in the organization of non-union mills, further than the signing of the scale.' The representative of our organization in each mill is the mill committee. We do not demand that the companies agree to recognize this committee, even in the non-union plants. That is a matter we allow employees of every plant to settle for themselves. The thing that we insist on is that the men be released from the contracts now binding them to belong to no labor organization and be allowed to join our association without being discharged, as has been the rule heretofore in the nonunion plants of the sheet steel company. The companies assert that they have not opposed' the organization of their mills, but they decline tocomply with the demand embodied in the second paragraph above. The steel workers' desire to secure organization under union rules of the non-union mills,. and the resistance of the operators, is perhaps explained in the following dispatch from Pittsburg to the New York Evening Post: The non-union mills are the best equipped, so far as machinery and appliances go, and are the larger, an instance of which is the sheet mill at Vandergrift, which the Amalgamated association failed to organize. It follows, then, that in the matter of closing mills the smaller and older should' logically close. These are the union mills. The non-union operate more smoothly, economically, and energetically. A reason for this condition must be looked for before the era of consolidation. Ten years ago practically all the sheet companies were union. At one time and another strikes occurred. The stronger companies won and abolished the organization. The weaker lost to the union. Freed from arbitrary rule, the strong and now non-union companies AMERICAN AFFAIRS adopted different labor-saving devices, which the smaller The Steel Strike After several fruitless conferences, a strike was ordered on Monday, July 15, by President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated association of iron and tin workers. It is not possible to give any estimate of the number of men involved, and the varying situation as to plants closed and open makes it difficult to enumerate them. Somewhat more than 100,000 men are doubtless idle on account of the strike of perhaps 20,000 skilled workers. The association's statement regarding the strike is as follows: We do not ask assistance of the manufacturers in unionizing the plants now being operated non-union. We simply ask that the three companies--the Sheet Steel, Tin Plate, and Steel Hoop-sign the scale for all mills, whether non-union or union, thus preventing discrimination in favor of the non-union plants during dull times. We ask that all agreements now in force between the companies and the men binding the latter not to join any labor organization be canceled by the companies. We ask to be let alone in the matter of organization. ones were unable to do, and thus forged to the front, making extensions and additions. A few years ago the Amalgamated association withdrew its objection to labor-saving devices.. but it was too late. The organization mills had been left behind in the march of improvement when the arbitrary practises were in vogue. There appears to be no question of wages or hours involved, since it is asserted and not denied that the wages paid by the non-union mills are as good, and in some cases better, than those paid by the union mills. The companies also deny that they have refused to consent to their workmen joining the union; they only refuse, according to their statements, to unionize the mills through their own acts. Press Comment New York Times (Dem.) Signing the scale for the non-union mills would have made union men of the employees in those mills so far as their substantial rights and interests are concerned. They have hitherto chosen to be free, they would then have been bound, and not by their own |