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Died. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, fast-moving boss of giant U.S. Steel for nearly 20 years, who substituted a candid personal charm for the rough flamboyance of an earlier generation of steelmakers; of pleurisy complicated by uremia; in Ligonier, Pa. Born the son of an immigrant Welsh coal miner, he got his first taste of capitalism as a newsboy, worked his way to an engineering degree, climbed rapidly with common-sense solutions to production problems and a knack for mediating high-level disputes. As president of U.S. Steel from 1938 to 1953 and board chairman from...
Divorced. By Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, brisk, outspoken board chairman of U.S. Steel until his 1955 retirement: Hazel Hatfield Fairless, 61. Fairless' second wife (they were married after her daughter married his son), whom he charged with "indignities"' kept secret by the court; after 17 years of marriage; in Greensburg...
...would like him to see Levittown [Pa.], the town surrounding the Fairless plant, and see this town universally and exclusively inhabited by its workmen, and to see what those homes...
...Steel's Fairless Works in Pennsylvania did not get the wages coming to them from work done in the last days before the strike, management explained that payroll clerks were also on strike. Other strikers lined up to collect up to a fortnight's back pay. But every week, workers lost more than $50 million in wages. Even if they win a 10? hourly wage hike, it will take them close to six months to make up for one week's lost wage...
Under Ben Fairless, Big Steel underwent its biggest expansion-and a growing friendliness with the unions. After Roger Blough went to U.S. Steel in 1942 from the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, he became experienced in labor negotiations. But he was a different sort of man from Fairless, and his attitude toward the union gradually stiffened in the face of its growing demands. He was hardly more than a year in the chairman's chair when the union in 1956 won its biggest wage victory. Blough has never forgotten that defeat. Says he blandly: "We would like...