Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning on Monday, August 13, and on succeeding days various units of the U. S. Steel Corporation and other steel mills changed from the two-shift (twelve-hour day) system to the three-shift (eight-hour day) system. In this way was carried out the promise of Elbert H. Gary, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, that the abolition of the two-shift system would " now " begin. The first changes following Mr. Gary's promise took place in the vicinity of Chicago, at Gary (Ind.), South Chicago and Joliet...
...eight hours. It is improbable that the steel mills could secure workers at that wage. Hence, it was considered necessary to increase hourly wages at the same time that the working day was cut. After a meeting of the directors of the Iron and Steel Institute, Judge Elbert H. Gary, its President (also Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation), announced that the pay of workmen would be increased (no definite date) 25%-to 50?. an hour...
Before President Harding sailed for Alaska from Tacoma he announced the receipt of a letter from the Iron and Steel Institute. It was signed by the directors of that body, including Elbert H. Gary, Charles M. Schwab, James A. Farrell, E. G. Grace and others. The letter accepted in principle the abolition of the twelve-hour day, and promised that the change from the two-shift to the three-shift system would be brought about as soon as there was a sufficient surplus of labor...
...Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation: "My championing of the necessity of a twelve-hour day in the steel industry brought another enemy upon me -Solomon Goldberg, of Manhattan. He said I was trying to destroy the religion of men by compelling them to work twelve hours a day so that they cannot worship their God. He exclaimed: ' Surely Gary is ungodly, but have not the pious always vanquished the sinners...
...report was read by Judge Elbert H. Gary, 76 years old, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation...