Word: girdlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio, Governor Martin Luther Davey called his own meeting. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic and President Frank Purnell of Youngstown declined to attend in person but sent deputies to meet with Philip Murray and John Owens of the Steel Workers. Governor Davey proposed a compromise: let the companies sign a labor contract, and let the union promise not to demand the closed shop or checkoff. The meeting was adjourned without result but another was arranged for this week...
High Words. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic recently obtained a vote of confidence from his industry when he was elected head of the Iron & Steel Institute instead of William A. Irvin of U. S. Steel (which signed a contract with S.W.O.C. without a fight). Ever an outspoken man, Tom Girdler expressed himself freely on the situation last week. He insisted that 21,000 of his 50,000 workers were still on the job, that his mills were shipping 8,000 tons of steel daily. Reporters asked about a suit started by Stockholder Robert W. Northrup of Toledo, who complained that...
Equally rough were the words of Philip Murray, chairman of S.W.O.C., addressing a strike meeting in Warren: "I'm here to tell Tom tonight that he's not going to get much more ore. Girdler is not a steel man. He was chief of the Jones & Laughlin police force before he was dragged by the bootstraps to be president of the Republic. He's a company cop, nothing more and nothing less, and there's no company policeman big enough to whip...
...time was the steel strike officially mentioned But the choice of a new leader of the Institute soon narrowed down to Big Steel's Irvin as a representative of the new order and those two hard-bitten foes of organized labor, Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler and National Steel's Ernest Tener Weir. For three hours the Institute s directors battled in a secret session frequently punctuated by heat-treated speeches from Mr. Grace. On emerging. the directors blandly announced the unanimous election of Steelman Girdler, whose Chicago plant was within a few hours...
...Bethlehem's figures did not by comparison look so startling. Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel Corp. announced the highest earnings in the company's history-$13,171,000 before undistributed profits tax of $629,000 as against $11,136,000 the year before. Tom Mercer Girdler's Republic Steel, busy last week with a deal to acquire Gulf States Steel Co., earned more than twice as much in 1936 as in. 1935-$9,586,000 compared to $4,455,000. Inland Steel's profits were up from...