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...Blough, U.S. Steel's chairman, who will have the top say about how much in raises-if anything-will go into the pay envelopes of thousands of steelworkers. See BUSINESS. ¶is for Charlie, Halleck by name...
...biggest say over what wages the steel industry will-or will not-pay in its new steel contract is Roger Miles Blough (rhymes with now), 55, the tough-minded chairman of U.S. Steel. Blough, who sternly calls for "renewal of the present contract with no rise in wage rates for one year," has the sinewy build (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) and face of a steel puddler. But he is not cast in the steelmaker's bluff, up-from-the-mills mold. He is an "outside man," a lawyer who got to the top by applying his logician...
...Roger Blough's upbringing was anything but ivory tower. The son of a poor Pennsylvania Dutch truck farmer, he got his schooling in one-room schoolhouses, spent his free time stoking stoves and cleaning blackboards for $5 a month to help the family get by. He went through high school and Susquehanna University, taught school and coached basketball for three years before he worked his way through Yale Law School, graduating with top marks...
...those Depression days, the young lawyer had to canvass ten firms before he got his first offer. When he applied for a job at the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, which numbered U.S. Steel among its clients, the official who interviewed Roger Blough noted: "First-class chap; good, clean-looking, talked intelligently. We would probably make no mistake." Irving Olds, former chairman of U.S. Steel, who moved into the company from White & Case himself, puts it another way: "Blough was one of those fellows who turn up no more than once in ten years...
Both U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough and Bethlehem Steel President Arthur B. Homer said that, barring a long strike, the industry's pickup in production would continue; for U.S. Steel and the industry second-quarter production will run between 90% and 95% of capacity. Blough said the rate of production, barring a strike, would drop "somewhat" in the third quarter but "would continue reasonably good because there's been a recovery in the economy that involves an increase in consumption by our customers." And for the fourth quarter production "ought to be better than the third...