The Steel Trust's War on Labor

War was formally declared upon the United States Steel corporation by leaders of organized labor throughout the United States and Canada at a recent conference at Pittsburg. The grievances of organized labor against the steel corporation have been forwarded to President Taft and the United States Senate and House of Representatives. The resolution states: 'A crisis in the affairs of labor has arisen. The gigantic trust, the United States Steel corporation, is using its great wealth and power in an effort to rob the toilers of their right of American manhood and of the opportunity to resist its further encroachments. The United States Steel corporation has declared war on labor. In its secret councils this corporation has decreed that the only obstacle to its complete sway, organized labor, shall be crushed. On June 1, 1909, the United States Steel corporation proclaimed its decree of hostility toward labor. The right of the workers to associate for their common protection was no longer to be recognized or tolerated.' The conference urged all national and international unions to send organizers to steel mill towns and called on central labor councils to cooperate in this effort to protect the workers' rights.