Debs On the Steel Strike.
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Eugene V. Debs in a speech at the Kankakee, Ill., Chautauqua last Saturday had this to say on the question of the steel strike:
“There is no use for the Federation of Labor to bluff, for it simply injures the cause of labor with the American people. The Federation has not two million members. It has not half that number. When it says it can raise $500,000 a week, it is simply bluster and blow. It cannot raise $5,000 a week. I have had experience in raising money for strikers. It is not thus that strikes are settled.”
Eugene ought to know what a strike bluff is and seems to speak honestly this time.