Receive The Steel Strike Of 1919 Produced By Colston E. Warne Available As Volume

Steel Strike ofopens a window on perhaps the most significant event in American labor history, The strike itself was a pyrrhic victory for America's international socialist movement, Although the strikers seemed to win the strike, they were themselves perceived as unAmerican, treacherous, maybe even guilty of high treason, A Steel Strike by immigrants During a crucial moment in World War One It was at this point that USborn American progressives turned their backs on

international socialism, and to this day the American Labor movement has been an AMERICAN labor movement.
Once the doughboys returned home, they redubbed themselves the American Legion and set about violently making America safe for capitalism,

Not much of this context is in Warne's book, which mostly includes sometimes dry testimonials given after the strike, One such testimony very interestingly notes that labor agitation arose not just from slavery like conditions, but from the alternation ofhours hard labor one week and absolutely nothing to do the next week.
During times of warehouse gluts or when raw materials failed to show up, workers commiserated and thereby organized,

If you are interested in American labor history and yes there is an important one, this book and Dray's There is power in a Union are two of the best sources.
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