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...Father thinks your plan is the soundest approach to the problem. Mother agrees. I talked the whole thing over with her last night. She remarked that the proper settlement of the air mail problem and full support of the Subsistence Homestead Projects should be the first order of business with the Administration...
...industry." If Leader Lewis had chosen to round out his indictment of the Federation leadership's failure to organize U. S. steel workers, he could have harked back across the dismal years since Steelmaster Henry Clay Frick bloodily crushed the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers at Homestead, Pa. in 1892. Not until 1919 did A. F. of L. recover courage to attempt a campaign in the nation's No. 1 basic industry. Its program was to split Steel's craftsmen among no less than 24 of its craft unions-unions in which there...
...impotent Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, on whose bones John Lewis is attempting to put robust flesh, was one of the strong est unions in the land. As its local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...
...days later Pennsylvania militia took over the town and by November the workers were starved out, their union crushed. Last week some 4,000 steelworkers, solemn in shirtsleeves, massed on and around a hilltop playground for grimy Homestead's first union rally in 18 years...
...Brackenridge. John Brophy, director of the Committee for Industrial Organization, similarly exhorted 2,000 other steelworkers. This week 170 more tough, hardened organizers will join the 30 which the Steel Workers Organizing Committee already has sent into the field. Next week will be held a great mass meeting near Homestead, at which the graves of the workers killed in the 1892 battle will be wreathed and Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy, International Secretary-Treasurer of the U.M.W., will orate. Pleased as punch with the way the campaign was going Philip Murray barked confidently: "No obstacle which might...