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...brief and bustling history of the Committee for Industrial Organization records only one important defeat: the repulse of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee last summer by the embattled masters of "Little Steel" led by Labor's most galling nemesis, Tom M. Girdler, president of Republic Steel. If steel labor history repeated itself, this defeat should have settled the labor problems of Mr. Girdler and his friends for a decade or two. But, until recently, labor history never knew an unassuming lawyer named J. Warren Madden and the National Labor Relations Board over which he efficiently presides. Last week, what...
What applies to Inland Steel must apply to everybody else including the H. J. Heinz Co. and Mr. Girdler and Republic Steel with whom S. W. O. C. had not even been able to reach an oral agreement. Mr. Girdler's repeated insistence that he would never sign an agreement with the "irresponsible, racketeering" C. I. O. unless forced to, seemed on its way to a final test. But three days after its Inland ruling, the NLRB gave Mr. Girdler something more immediate to worry about. In a bristling 60,000-word decision, the board held...
...Girdler, far from posting notices, described various parts of the decision as "startling" and "astounding," promised to "take full advantage of all rights . . . under...
...industrial history Chairman Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel Corp. will ever have a place as the man who kept Little Steel from being unionized by C. I. O. in 1937. Tom Girdler hopes never to be in such a position again and one good way to forestall it is to make his $364,000,000 company less dependent upon labor. Since this is also the path of progressive technology, Tom Girdler found double delight last week in formally opening what Republic claims is the world's largest, fastest and most mechanized continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre...
...perform these complex functions, Republic's new mill relies chiefly on 1,420 electric motors, all of them so integrated and automatic that a few master switches control everything. To the charge that mills of this type reduce employment, Tom Girdler last week made the standard answer: "The number of men required to run the mill itself represents only a small fraction of the employment made possible by the mill...