“A very good story it is.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 6 ’20 230w
“The heavily padded story moves slowly, and its improbabilities are not made to seem plausible by clever development.”
− + N Y Times p25 D 19 ’20 350w
FOSTER, WILLIAM ZEBULON. Great steel strike and its lessons. il *$1.75 Huebsch 331.89
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John A. Fitch in his introduction to the book speaks of the overwhelming power of the steel trust and says: “The story of the most extensive and most courageous fight yet made to break this power and to set free the half million men of the steel mills is told within the pages of this book by one who was himself a leader in the fight. It is a story that is worth the telling, for it has been told before only in fragmentary bits and without the authority that comes from the pen of one of the chief actors in the struggle.” Contents: The present situation; A generation of defeat; The giant labor awakes; Flank attacks; Breaking into Pittsburgh; Storm clouds gather; The storm breaks; Garyism rampant; Efforts at settlement; The course of the strike; National and racial elements; The commissariat—the strike cost; Past mistakes and future problems; In conclusion.
“This book, in spite of its lurid rhetoric, extreme statements, and partisan viewpoint, throws a good deal of light on labor conditions in the steel industry.” G: M. Janes
+ − Am Econ R 10:840 D ’20 140w