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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Education and Labor
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 598
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 1062
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Interchurch World Movement of North America
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 1074
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Interchurch World Movement of North America. Commission of Inquiry
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Interchurch World Movement of North America
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-02
Total Pages: 1062
ISBN-13: 9781528530668
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Investigation of Strike in Steel Industries: Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Sixty-Sixth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 202, on the Resolution of the Senate to Investigate the Strike in Steel Industries Senator mclean. Yes; I think they had better be read. The chairman. SO you will read them, Mr. Rubin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: United States. Congress. Labor
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781230133324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...I think there is. It is not a question of wages. They have never been getting more money than they have got, and the conditions are good. The Chairman. How about their living conditions? How are they? Mr. Mink. The living conditions are just what the men want. A lot of them have good jobs and they make good money, and they could live a whole lot better. The Chairman. Do many of them own their own homes? Mr. Mink. I could not tell you that. The Chairman. Do they send money home abroad? Mr. Mink. I could not tell you that. The Chairman. I wonder if you folks could tell us about their sending money home? Mr. Mink. Yes; I am told--a bank down there can tell you, the Monongahela Trust Co. They run a foreign department and they would be in a better position to tell you, to give you that information. STATEMENT OF ME. JOHN S. JAMES. Senator Mckellar. What is your name? Mr. James. John S. James. Senator Mckellar. And are you an American, Mr. James? Mr. James. Yes, sir; I have been here for 32 years. Senator Mckellar. Are you a naturalized American citizen? Mr. James. Oh, my, yes. Senator Mckellar. Have you been asked to join this strike? Mr. James. No. Senator Mckellar. Have any of the boys been asked to join the strike? Mr. James. They never asked anybody about the strike. The Chairman. You do not belong to the union and they do not and never have? Mr. James. No, sir. The Chairman. What is the strike about? Mr. James. That is what we want to find out. The Chairman. What do they say it is about, men that have gone out? Mr. James. Well, I can not talk to them fellows. The main thing they want is that they want eight hours. They want eight hours. The Chairman. That is one of the complaints, they want eight hours? Mr. James. Yes, sir; they want eight...
Author: David Brody
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780252013737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conceived as a prologue to the 1930s industrial-union triumph in steel, Labor in Crisis explains the failure of unionization before the New Deal era and the reasons for mass-production unionism's eventual success. Widely regarded as a failure, the great 1919 steel strike had both immediate and far-reaching consequences that are important to the history of American labor. It helped end the twelve-hour day, dramatized the issues of the rights to organize and to engage in collective bargaining, and forwarded progress toward the passage of the Wagner Act, which, in turn, helped trigger John L. Lewis's decision to launch the CIO.
