WHITE SLAVERY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3436, 30 January 1912, Page 5

WHITE SLAVERY.

AMERICA’S WORK SYSTEM.

GREAT CORPORATIONS AND SWEATING.

SOME TERRIBLE REVELATIONS

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT] (Received Jan 30, 12.5 a.m-) NEW YORK, Jam 29. The Department of Commerce, in a report, accuses the Steel Corporations of maintaining a system of labor as enslaving as old time galleys. Only fourteen per centum of the. hundred and seventy-tlire© thousand employees of the blast furnaces, steel- works and rolling mills, worked less sixty hours weekly, says the report, and forty-three per centum worked seventy-two hours or over. Of the hundred and seventythree thousand, thirteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight earned below fourteen cents an hotur, and twenty thousand five hundred and twentyseven below sixteen. a nd fifty-one thousand four hundred and seventeen below eighteen cents. The companies were gradually eliminating skilled artisans and replacing them by unskilled at sevenpenoe an hour, recruited, from recent immigrants- A week consists of seven working days, and general workers were moved each week from the day to. night shift, compelling them to remain on duty eighteen to twenty-four hours. Eighteen-hour shifts were the rule on sonm nlants.