The Great Steel Strike and its LessonsFoster, William Z.
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The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons
Foster, William Z.
Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920; United States Steel Corporation
Clarksburg, W. Va. $310,000.00
Wheeling District 6,100,000.00
Donora 1,200,000.00
Steubenville dist. 2,260,000.00
Youngstown 15,500,000.00
Monessen 2,660,000.00
Brackenridge 450,000.00
New Kensington 375,000.00
McKeesport 597,869.00
Port Vue 900,000.00
Sharon-Farrell 1,250,000.00
New Castle 705,000.00
Homestead 737,840.00
Duquesne 55,030.00
Johnstown 5,712,321.35
Ellwood City 35,000.00
Butler 1,450,000.00
Aliquippa 10,000.00
Pittsburgh 5,715,000.00
Sharpsburg, AEtna 435,000.00
Vandergrift 357,000.00
Clairton 165,000.00
Rankin 375,000.00
Braddock 650,000.00
To the above, the New York _Herald_ of January 12 editorially adds an
estimate of $39,000,000 for steel districts other than Pittsburgh,
making a grand total of $87,000,000 as the strikers' wage loss. But
these figures, bearing the earmarks of Steel Trust origin, are too low.
On the basis of the minimum figures of an average of 250,000 strikers
for 90 working days (actual strike length 108 days) at $5.00 per day per
man, we arrive at a total of $112,500,000.00, or $450.00 per average
striker. Doubtless these figures are also too low, but they will serve
to indicate the tremendous sums of money the already poverty-stricken
steel workers were willing to sacrifice in order to change the
conditions which Mr. Gary so glowingly paints as ideal.
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