THE STEEL TRUST.
SCATHING INDICTMENT-. GROSS SWEATING OF LABOUR ALLEGED. WORSE THAN THE OALLEYS. Bj ToloCTirh—Press Association—Cspyrilbt (Roc. January 30, 0.15 ojn.) New York, January 29. A Department of Commerce report accuses the Steel Corporation of maintaining a system of labour, as enslaving as the old-time galleys. Only fourteen per cent, of 173,000 employees at the blast fuxnacoa in the steel works and tho rolling-mills worked less than sixty hours weekly. Fortythree per cent, frorkod 72 hours or over. Of the 173,000 employees, 18,868 earned below H cents (sevenpence) an hour; 20,527 below 16 cents (Bd-)j 51,417 below 18 cents (9d.). The oompanies comprised in the corporation were • gradually eliminating skilled artisans, and replacing them by unskilled labour at 7d. an hour. Those latter hands wore recruited from recent immigrants. The week consists of seven working days. General workers are moved each weekday bo tho night Bhift, compelling them to remain on duty from 18 to 21 hours. Eighteon-hour shifts are the rule on Some plants,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 30 January 1912, Page 5
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166THE STEEL TRUST. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 30 January 1912, Page 5
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