Word: junkmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scrap dealers consider it an insult to be called junkmen, have their own national trade body, the Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel, Inc. Nonspecialist dealers who are equally touchy are organized in the National Association of Waste Materials Dealers...
...down last week to $13.41. These melancholy facts trouble everyone in the junk business.* In Chicago the junk business is especially troubled, for retail junk shop owners for the last two months have been having trouble with the men who collect and sell them their scrap. About 1,500 junkmen, members of the United Junk Peddlers' Association-a C. I. O. affiliate -struck against the retailers for union recognition and a closed shop. Retailers promptly had peddler pickets clapped in jail. Chicago's Judge Michael Feinberg refused an injunction to restrain the police, told the junkmen they were...
...business," warned Chairman Louis Lippa gravely. "We've got to do something about it or else close up shop." More than 1,000 waste paper dealers, brokers in rags, old rails, cracked stoves, rusty boilers and smashed automobiles, listened soberly to his plan and found it good: let junkmen junk their NRA code. "We are making the first move to withdraw from the code authority," said Chairman Lippa. "The code has not served any useful purpose...
...total tonnage. What he collects in his backyard, he sells to the dealer for cash. Thus, dealers large & small require bank credits to carry their huge junk piles until sales in big shipments are made to the steel mills. Large dealers are generally college-bred sons of junkmen who found the picking particularly good, have considerable investments in machinery to handle and break up junk. Despite the size of the industry, there are no large units...
...junkmen love a big scrapping job. After the Washington Naval Conference Henry A. Hitner's Sons Co., potent Philadelphia dealers, had tied up at their waterfront yard awaiting the torch three battleships, 26 submarines and destroyers, 55,000 tons of auxiliary vessels. Ingenious British junkmen picked the best ships of the German navy off the floor of Scapa Flow, sliced them into $13,000,000 worth of scrap. An abandoned railroad is always a juicy plum. A big deal that junkmen missed was the sale of 199 World War vessels to Henry Ford for $1,600,000. He towed...