people back because they were hunkies and brought in his rela-
tives and those who treated him to booze to take the better posi-
tions. If anyone complained he was fired.

The man lost his thumb at the mill and was out for three
months a while ago. The company paid him $75.

He has his first citizenship papers and sends his children to
the public school.

Place -- Monessen, Pa.
Nationality -- Russian

T. worked as a pipe fitter in the machine shop of the Pitts-
burgh Steel Co., 10 1/2 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sometimes
as often as twice a week he was obliged to work 29 1/2 hours at
a stretch. For this period he was given overtime pay for only
5 1/2 hours. He earned 46c. an hour or about $100 in two
weeks. He has two children.

Rent for three good rooms is $18. Food, which is quite
ample, costs $100 a month. Insurance costs $62 a year. He
had saved about $100 before the strike. He evidently considered
himself much more prosperous than many of the strikers. His
principal objection was too long hours.

During the organizing campaign a company official had asked
him to go around and find out what "Bolsheviks" there were
among the men, and what men had joined the union, so they
could be discharged. He refused but someone he knew undertook
the job.

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