Many owners often felt they were doing them a favor by providing them a job in the first place. The struggle towards overturning these corrupt businessmen did not start during Kratcha's working days. Many people of his generation felt the same way he did about trying to change the way a business works through electing a government official with similar views as the workers. When talking to his daughter's future husband, Mike Dobrejak about this topic, Kratcha says, "In Europe your emperors and grand dukes own everything and over here it's your millionaires and trusts. They run the country to suit themselves, and don't think they"re going to let you interfere every few years with your miserable vote. Get that into your head. Your vote means nothing. The company man always wins." .
Mike did not agree with Kratcha and was determined to fight as hard as possible to alter the way his people were treated in the workplace. "In 1904 a small step was taken towards improving working conditions when president Roosevelt passed a couple of laws as part of his "Square Deal" to attempt to make things better for the working .
class. He passed the law that would provide an eight hour work day as well as one that provided workers compensation." This was not enough for Mike. Wages were still very low and it was impossible for a "Hunky" to get a decent job, even if he had ten times the experience needed for the job. In addition to this, the bosses of the mills would almost force the workers to vote for a certain candidate in the upcoming elections. The owners knew that having control of the government would ensure the safety of the company from losing its power. Some men secretly voted for the candidate they wanted but most of them played it safe so they would not get laid off. One of these men was Mike. "Mike voted for a socialist Eugene Debs instead of the Republican the company wanted him to vote for, William Howard Taft.