Word: fansteel
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...been able to give his State peace. Instead Michigan had a Chrysler strike, an uproarious labor holiday in Lansing, a battle at the Ford plant, another at the opening of a steel plant in Monroe. In Illinois, Governor Horner had not prevented a pitched battle at the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. last February, a more deadly battle at Republic Steel's mill in South Chicago on Memorial Day. In Ohio, Governor Davey unsuccessfully tried mediation, but for three weeks the steel towns of the Mahoning Valley were armed camps, with steel mills under siege and casual fracases occurring at frequent...
...when he was told to take the midnight train to Detroit. There was hardly a day from then on that Chicago did not see a Lahey story from the strike front. Once he got home for a few days and promptly went out to cover the Fansteel plant battle so closely that he inhaled a load...
...North Chicago in two buildings of Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (contact points) 63 sit-downers who had previously repulsed an assault by 125 deputy sheriffs (TIME, March 1) were suddenly awakened at 5:15 a. m. by a bombardment of gas shells and grenades. Looking out they beheld a strange object, a 20-ft. wooden tower erected on the rear end of a truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their...
...Lewis and his C. I. O. are trying to enlist all the steel workers in the land. Circuit Judge Ralph J. Dady had promptly issued a temporary order for them to evacuate. But the example of the automobile sit-downers in Flint (TIME, Feb. 15) had taught the Fansteel men to pay no attention to the court. Just as Flint's Judge Paul V. Gadola had done, Judge Dady issued a writ for the sitters' arrest. This time there was no Governor Murphy to tell the sheriff to ignore...
...whistled through the broken windows of the heatless, lightless factory. . . . Heat came up after two days, but negotiations to end the strike remained frozen. Like Governor Murphy, sympathetic Governor Homer refused to risk bloodshed by sending militia to evict the sitters. As General Motors' officials had first done, Fansteel's President Robert J. Aitchison stood firm on his property rights, refused to discuss a settlement until his plant was evacuated. Thrice rejecting Governor Horner's pleas for a conference, he said he was perfectly willing to talk to his own employes, but would never treat with their...