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...Pittsburgh, Democratic Mayor Cornelius D. Scully polled 122,400 votes to the 92,800 for Robert N. Waddell, onetime Carnegie Tech football coach. S. W. O. C. mayors and burgesses were swept into office in the historic steel towns of Ambridge, Brackenridge, Clairton, Donora, Duquesne, Monessen, Rankin. Even in Aliquippa, where Tom Girdler made his name as a Jones & Loughlin executive and where until four years ago there were only eight registered Democrats, the S. W. O. C. candidate, George L. Kiefer, defeated Republican Mayor Morgan H. Sohn...
...charged that Republic Steel had sent seven company policemen, some of them formerly employed by Jones & Laughlin, to interfere with the election. Jones & Laughlin denied knowledge of their presence, Republic said they were merely sent as observers, but warrants were issued for their arrest. Meanwhile at Pittsburgh and neighboring Aliquippa, 24,000 of Jones & Laughlin's 27,000 workers filed quietly through the National Labor Relations Board's polling places in the plants, cast ballots voting "yes" or "no" on representation by S. W. O. C. Near dawn next morning the Labor Board announced that...
...night last week at grim Aliquippa, Pa., 25 miles down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, flames leaping up from great Jones & Laughlin blast furnaces flickered over the tense, expectant faces of thousands of men, women and children massed outside the five-mile-long plant's gates. Sharp at 11 p. m. came the deadline which Jones & Laughlin's C. I. O. unionists had set when they voted to strike unless the corporation signed a union contract. Marching out of J. & L. plants both in Aliquippa and Pittsburgh, the unionists shut down the nation's fourth largest steel...
There was to be no repetition of 1919's violence. Aliquippa's police chief decided once that the C. I. O. pickets looked threatening, tossed a few tear gas bombs at them. Strikers battered a U. S. mail truck which they thought was taking ammunition into the plant. A few hardy non-unionists tried to crash the picket lines, best scrap being put up by irate old H. L. Queen, longtime company storekeeper. "I've got a job and I'm going to it," cried he. When pickets seized him, H. L. Queen sank his teeth...
Since the death of the last Jones president in 1926, J. & L. has had no less than four presidents from outside. Most famed was Tom Mercer Girdler, now head of Republic Steel. It was during Mr. Girdler's term that Aliquippa became known to steelmen as the "perfect company town" and to labor agitators as the "Siberia of America." And it was under Mr. Girdler that J. & L.'s profits reached $20,800,000 in 1929. During Depression the company accumulated nearly $18,000,000 worth of deficits. Even under President Samuel E. Hackett, a master salesman...