ABSTRACT
An interesting feature of the recent Chicago struggle was the refusal of Mr. Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor to recognize the Amalgamated Clothing Workers because of their secession from the United Garment Workers. Practically the failure of support in the trade-union world has been the chief reason for defeat, if the end must be called defeat. A significant fact about the present strike has been the opposition of the mayor of Chicago to the clothing workers, and his acquiescence in the unfair treatment of the strikers and strike sympathizers by the police. An inconclusive peace seems to have been the outcome of three months of industrial war. The clothing workers of Chicago go back to their employers in the shadow, as it were, of another strike.
