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ILLUMINATION FROM WTHTK HOT METAL<br />
of llic AiiR'ricaii i)iil)lic certain industrial<br />
];robk'ins which can not be settled by<br />
capital and labor alone. The American<br />
])c()])le must assume a distinct share in<br />
the responsibility of their solution.<br />
It should be distinctly understood that<br />
orsj^anized labor had nothing to do with<br />
the strike, for aside from a small carpenters'<br />
union, and a few orq;anized bartenders,<br />
there were no trade unionists<br />
in South I'cthlehem. The Amalf^amated<br />
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers,<br />
to which most of the men would<br />
naturally l)elonj4",<br />
had been systematically<br />
forced out of the works since the strike<br />
in 1883. The strike leader, knovvinj»" the<br />
feeling-s entertained by the officials of the<br />
Company against trade imionism, deliberately<br />
ke])t the subject of organization<br />
in abeyance, thinking the matter would<br />
be settled. lUit one of the trades, after a<br />
few da}s, sent for the organizer of their<br />
imion, who. in his turn, notified the<br />
b'ederation of Labor in regard to the<br />
situation, and a number of national organizers<br />
were sent to South P>ethlehen%.<br />
As a result of their efforts during the<br />
])erio(l of enforced idleness. i)ractically
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