The leaders of the latter were violent and aggressive men; they had guns and pistols, and, as was soon proved, were able to intimidate the thousands.
I quote what I once laid down in writing as our rule: "My idea is that the Company should be known as determined to let the men at any works stop work; that it will confer freely with them and wait patiently until they decide to return to work, never thinking of trying new men--never." The best men as men, and the best workmen, are not walking the streets looking for work.

Only the inferior class as a rule is idle.

The kind of men we desired are rarely allowed to lose their jobs, even in dull times.

It is impossible to get new men to run successfully the complicated machinery of a modern steel plant.

The attempt to put in new men converted the thousands of old men who desired to work, into lukewarm supporters of our policy, for workmen can always be relied upon to resent the employment of new men.