Word: girdlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girdler, Republic Steel's $176,000-a-year Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Board of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, has come to be almost symbolic in steel, the industry he got into because he was homesick. As such, he has come to share the fate of most symbols-sworn by and sworn at. But Tom Girdler's autobiography, told with professional Saturday Evening Post briskness, is more than the story of steel-more than another Horatio Alger success story. Certain to give laborites the fits, the book is also a belligerently forthright portrait of a notoriously belligerent...
...Girdler Way. Few U.S. citizens outside of the steel industry ever heard of Tom Girdler until March 1937, when the battle of "Little Steel" began. When U.S. Steel signed a collective bargaining agreement with C.I.O., then bossed by Samson-haired John L. Lewis, Tom Gird-ler's beady eyes bulged with rage. He writes...
Tough Tom Girdler's determination to fight led to more fighting than perhaps he bargained for. Almost one-third of Boot Straps traces the battle of Little Steel from its first ominous rumblings through its bloody climax on Memorial Day, 1937, when Chicago police fired into a crowd of strikers and sympathizers parading past the gates of the Republic plant. (Casualties: 10 dead, 90-100 injured.) Says Tom Girdler...
Future labor historians will be glad to have Tom Girdler's version of the battle of Little Steel, as his side of the story, but with the evidence of the Senate La Follette Civil Liberties report at hand, they will not accept it as being fully authentic...
...Girdler Mind. Eagle-bald, hawk-nosed Tom Girdler, at 66, has one possession of which he is inordinately proud-a mind of his own. Most readers will find its self-revelations the most interesting part of Tom Girdler's autobiography. The pugnacious author often mistakes shallowness for insight ("With free water and cheap soap who really is obliged to live in filth?"), but in his wrestling with the problem of Labor & Management he tackles squarely one of the thorniest problems in the U.S. The conclusions he has reached are important, not because they are Tom Girdler...