Excerpt from The Great Steel Strike: And Its LessonsIn many a church during the recent strike, ministers and priests denounced the agitators and urged the workmen in their congregations to go back to the mills. Small business men accepted deputy sher iffs' commissions, put revolvers in their belts and talked loudly about the merits of a firing squad as a remedy for industrial unrest.For twenty or more years in the mill towns along the Monongahela since I 892 in Homestead the working men have lived in an atmosphere of espion age and repression. The deadening inuence of an overwhelming power, capable of crushing whatever does not bend to its will, has in these towns stifled individual initiative and robbed citizenship of its virility.The story of the most extensive and most coura geons 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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