Part 2

II. A GENERATION OF DEFEAT 8

The urge for mastery--Democratic resistance--The Homestead strike--The strikes of 1901 and 1909-- The Steel Trust victorious.

III. THE GIANT LABOR AWAKES 16

A bleak prospect--Hope springs eternal--A golden chance--Disastrous delay--The new plan--A lost opportunity--The campaign begins--Gary fights back.

IV. FLANK ATTACKS 28

A sea of troubles--The policy of encirclement--Taking the outposts--Organizing methods--Financial systems-- The question of morale--Johnstown.

V. BREAKING INTO PITTSBURGH 50

The flying squadron--Monessen--Donora--McKeesport-- Rankin--Braddock--Clairton--Homestead--Duquesne--The results.

VI. STORM CLOUDS GATHER 68

Relief demanded--The Amalgamated Association moves--A general movement--The conference committee--Gompers' letter unanswered--The strike vote--Gary defends steel autocracy--President Wilson acts in vain--The strike call.

VII. THE STORM BREAKS 96

The Steel Trust Army--Corrupt officialdom--Clairton-- McKeesport--The strike--showing by districts--A treasonable act--Gary gets his answer.

VIII. GARYISM RAMPANT 110

The White Terror--Constitutional Rights denied-- Unbreakable solidarity--Father Kazincy--The Cossacks --Scientific barbarity--Prostituted courts--Servants rewarded.

IX. EFFORTS AT SETTLEMENT 140

The National Industrial Conference--The Senate committee--The red book--The Margolis case--The Interchurch World Movement.

X. THE COURSE OF THE STRIKE 162

Pittsburgh district--The railroad men--Corrupt newspapers--Chicago district--Federal troops at Gary --Youngstown district--The Amalgamated Association-- Cleveland--The Rod and Wire Mill strike--The Bethlehem plants--Buffalo and Lackawanna--Wheeling and Steubenville --Pueblo--Johnstown--Mob rule--The end of the strike.

XI. NATIONAL AND RACIAL ELEMENTS 194

A modern Babel--Americans as skilled workers--Foreigners as unskilled workers--Language difficulties--The Negro in the strike--The race problem.

XII. THE COMMISSARIAT--THE STRIKE COST 213

The Relief organization--Rations--System of distribution --Cost of Commissariat--Steel Strike Relief Fund--Cost of the strike to the workers, the employers, the public, the Labor movement.

XIII. PAST MISTAKES AND FUTURE PROBLEMS 234

Labor's lack of confidence--Inadequate efforts--Need of alliance with miners and railroaders--Radical leadership as a strike issue--Railroad shopmen, Boston police, miners, railroad brotherhood strikes--Defection of Amalgamated Association.

XIV. IN CONCLUSION 255

The point of view--Are trade unions revolutionary?--Camouflage in social wars--Ruinous dual unionism--Radicals should strengthen trade unions--The English renaissance--Tom Mann's work.

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