Excerpt from Report on Strike at Bethlehem Steel Works, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1910 The strike at the Bethlehem Steel Works, which was the occasion of this investigation and report, began on February 4, 1910. The imme diate cause of the strike was the dismissal on that date of three machinists. The three men who were dismissed had shortly before served on a committee that had waited upon the foreman to protest against the discharge of a man who had used a subterfuge to escape Sunday work, and to ask for the abolition of Sunday work itself. The discharge of these particular men was, On this account, construed by the machinists as a coercive measure to repress agitation against overtime and Sunday work. The discharge of the employees for Whose reinstatement the strike occurred, was thus merely an incident growing out of Opposition on the part of some of the employees against the extension of overtime and Sunday work. To understand, there fore, the real causes leading up to the strike, it is necessary to outline briefly certain general conditions of employment with special refer ence to hours and methods of payment at the Bethlehem Steel Works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.