Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers was smelted out of the C.I.O. last year for following the Communist Party line. This week the I.U.M.M.S.W. pulled 58,000 workers off the job in more than 50 mines, mills and other plants in 25 states, and slowed U.S. production of defense-vital copper to a trickle. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said the strike would "drastically curtail" production of tanks, guns and planes. Present wages of the union's men range from $1.31 to $1.62 an hour. Union demand: a general wage increase of 20? an hour, plus pension and other benefits...
When the I.U.M.M.S.W. walked out, many members of A.F.L. craft unions who work in the same mines and plants refused to cross picket lines, bringing the total idled to 100,000. Production of strategic lead and zinc was cut along with copper. With 95% of the country's non-ferrous metal mining production shut down, the union appealed to President Truman to seize the industry. Instead, the President asked the workers to get back on the job while the Wage Stabilization Board investigates...
Many industries far outstripped the average gain. Of 26 industries sampled by BLS, nine (including lead, zinc and copper mining, the synthetic fiber industry) showed a rise in man-hour output of 10% or more. Productivity in the anthracite coal industry was off 4%, but for all the mining industry, it was up 6%, equal to the total rise scored during the eleven preceding year's. Manufacturers' productivity rose 8%, compared with the normal...
Most companies are ready with a replacement when the top man dies. But Kennecott Copper Corp., largest U.S. copper producer, was a special case. Two years ago its president, E. T. Stannard, and his successor were both killed in an airplane crash (TIME, Sept...
High atop San Francisco's Nob Hill, the mourners and the curious crowded into massive, neo-Gothic Grace Cathedral. The great copper casket was carried into the arched, flower-filled chancel and set between two crosses of white lilies. From the Book of Common Prayer, the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal Bishop of California, intoned the funeral service, without sermon or eulogy. At that moment, in the grimy office of the Examiner, a few blocks away, and in Hearst-papers across the land, typewriters and linotypes stilled their clatter, and for a few minutes the plants...