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...great gathering of metal manufacturers' in Manhattan, Steelmaster Tom Girdler flatly predicted a bigger and more diversified production of steels than has ever been known before...
...right to represent all steel workers in a plant where a majority voted for union representation. Sooner or later it was evident that Miss Perkins was going to sit down with the steelmasters of the U. S.-Grace of Bethlehem, Taylor of U. S. Steel, Weir of Weirton, Girdler of Republic-and try her prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot of U. S. Steel's employes last week showed, according to Iron Age, that 95% of the company's employes opposed a strike, the bloodiness of all past steel strikes made the threat of such...
...answered flatly by Tom M. Girdler, board chairman & president of Republic Steel, who fired a Manhattan meeting of steelmen to lusty applause by saying: "Before I spend the rest of my life dealing with William Green, I'm going to raise apples and potatoes. . . . We are . . . willing to deal with our own employes. . . . We are not going to deal with the Amalgamated or any other professional union, even if we have to shut down...
...Schwab. Thereupon the stockholders took a vote of confidence in priceless Mr. Schwab, only five dissenting. Rail orders were up, current operations were 52% of capacity against an average for the industry of 47%, said. President Grace. "We earned a profit on the preferred in March," he added. Bull Girdler. Republic Steel's President Tom M. Girdler also had a bullish report when he went before his stockholders in Jersey City. His company was almost out of the red, operating at 55% of capacity against an average of only 36.9% last year. "It looks as though we will have...
Guiding this young (incorporated in 1928) company's affairs is its creator, youngish Tom Huston, publicized as "The Farmer Boy Who Became Peanut King." It would be a mistake to call Peanut King Huston "Thomas," for like Republic Steel's Tom Girdler he is simply, proudly Tom. The bronze nameplate on his desk bears only the three-letter word: TOM. The company points out that this is very expressive of his character...