no mercy, the worker can step right on up to Mr. James J. Davis, millionaire Secretary of Labor, Grand High Kleagle of the Loyal Order of Moose, advocate of finger-printing our 7,000,000 alien population, and Deportation Agent Extraordinary for the United States Government. Mr. Davis's decision "shall be binding."
These Bethlehem committees have the usual power. They can recommend that a new pane of glass be put in a window, that the toilets be flushed regularly, that workers be permitted to keep goats in their back yards. The findings of these committees, however, are not mandatory. They are recommendatory. The higher-ups can carry out the suggestions of these committees if they are so disposed. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation considers that the plan is "good business." It has also introduced the plan at the Lackawanna Steel Company, its Buffalo subsidiary. At the time the new harmony was introduced in this plant, President Grace said:
"We are in argument with no one. We want to regard ourselves as a big happy family, wedded 100 per cent to the interests of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, each of us just as important to it as the other."
Wheeling Steel Corporation.
Another steel company which has succeeded in displacing the trade union by the use of a company union plus a corps of spies, a private army of thugs, and an expensive battery of lawyers and personnel managers is the Wheeling Steel Corporation.[1] This corporation has driven the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers off the premises chiefly by the use of injunctions which prevent the strikers from talking to the non-
- ↑ See Chapter I of "The Labor Spy," by Sidney Howard, for a certain "R-O"—Jake Peters—who handled undercover work for the Corporations' Auxiliary Company, the nation-wide spy agency, employed by this company in 1919.
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