The strike in the steel trade in America has ended
in the submission of the men, who have gone back to work without any.alteration in the old terms. Mr, Pierpont Morgan has not, however, acted on his threat to • hold no further com- munication with the Unions until they had applied for charters of incorporation, and so become liable for damages. He probably felt that with a new President a new tone might come in, and that it was unwise to prevent all negotiation. The men from the first had very little chance. They were not fighting for wages, but for a right of control, which is opposed to American feeling; they are hampered by the federal system, which disables them from completely united action ; and they were only half-hearted in the struggle. They think of themselvfs not as artisans only, but as men who will be masters, and are too well off during their transition stage to regard real injury to their trade with levity. The most formidable Trade-Unions of America have been those of the mining districts, probably because the miners are both rougher and less prosperous.
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