According to the latest accounts from America, the great strike
of the steelworkers is to begin to-day. The leaders of the men, aware of the immense funds at the disposal of the capitalists and of the determined character of Mr. Pierpont Morgan, have evidently hesitated, but the younger men regard the occasion as a great opportunity and have carried their elders away. They think, it is believed, that they can keep the non-Union men away from the mills, and forget that the sentiment of those who control the Law Courts and the Militia is entirely in favour of the maintenance of order. Unless they include in their ranks nearly all the men required to direct processes we do not see how they can win, and if they do, immense terms will be offered to the few who are indispensable. Unionism has never been as strong in America as it is here, and probably never will be, ambition being at once more keenly felt and more likely to be gratified. All the best working men hope to rise, and are, studying the way up to the eminences rather than life on the plain. Americans are not jealous of millionaires because every American with brains thinks he may be one.
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