Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Gompers Lends Aid. [ARTICLE]

Gompers Lends Aid.

Two moves, almost startling in their consequences, were made Friday in the great contest between the United States Steel Corporation and the steelworkers. The first move was made by direction of the trust officials and was evidently regarded as a terrific blow to the strikers. This was the announcement that the great Deweese Wood plant at McKeesport, Pa., was to be immediately dismantled and removed from McKeesport. The counter blow was given Friday night by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, when he declared that large body of organized labor would stand by the Amalgamated association in the present conflict and give moral and financial aid in every lawful way. It now seems a dertainty that all of the federation men engaged in the iron and steel trades will be called out at once.