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...Ernest] Weir would be raising these millions of dollars to elect Mr. Willkie if he believed that Mr. Willkie was in fact a wholehearted supporter of collective bargaining? . . . (Recalling that on April 11, 1939 Willkie said: "If we are patient, we will see the time when men like Girdler are recognized as the true heroes of America.") "That is what Wendell Willkie thinks of Tom Girdler-a true American hero...
...While Green and Lewis still sulked, C.I.O. and A.F. of L. sub-chieftains worked smoothly together under the Defense Commission's Labor Coordinator: 1. Frances Perkins. 2. Daniel J. Tobin. 3. David Dubinsky. 4. Tom Girdler. 5. Sidney Hillman...
...active light-steel markets than National's and Inland's mills in Detroit and Chicago; and before he had a chance to compete, the 1938 depression hit him. Meanwhile he won the good will of tough steel labor (which had been a long time forgetting tough Tom Girdler's regime at J. & L.) by following U. S. Steel into a C. I. O. contract...
Biggest electric-furnace operator in the industry* is Tom Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. Last week its operating chief, Vice President Charles M. White, announced that Republic was going to maintain this lead. With one 50-ton-per-shift, two 25-ton, three 15-ton, two 6-ton electric furnaces all going full blast, White announced that his Canton works would soon add two mammoth new electric furnaces with a combined capacity of 100 tons per shift, roughly a 50% increase in Republic's capacity...
Tanks. Tom Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. last week prepared to make armor plate for tanks. Marmon-Herrington Co., truck & tractor maker, is doubling the capacity of its Indianapolis plant, had an order to build light combat tanks for the U. S. Army...