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...Steel blast furnace was blown in less than six months after construction work began (usual time: 12-18 months). It is 105 ft. high, will produce 450,000 tons of pig iron annually, is thus even bigger than the new Bethlehem furnace ("world's biggest") blown in at Lackawanna last month...
Vice President Henry A. Wallace's Economic Defense Board completed a sleuthing job last week, came up with a rich haul of loot. In the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad yards in Hoboken, N.J., the board's investigators found the following war supplies, stranded in warehouses and freight cars ever since the consignees had been cut off by Hitler's conquests...
...iron capacity, recommended by OPM last month, is scheduled to arise. In addition to enlargement and rehabilitation of existing blast furnaces, the pig-iron program includes ten new furnaces: one each at Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala., Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio (for Republic Steel), at Johnstown, Pa. and Lackawanna, N.Y. (for Bethlehem), at Braddock, Pa. (for U.S.), at Pueblo, Colo, (for Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo, Utah (or perhaps at Pittsburg, Calif.) U.S. Steel's Columbia works is due to get three more blast furnaces, to be shipped second-hand from eastern mills where...
Grace Under Pressure. Bethlehem, under President Eugene Grace, had doggedly resisted C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee from the start. Doggedly, Bethlehem spokesmen rejected S. W. O. C.'s terms for ending the Lackawanna strike. The terms: 1) reinstatement of workers who had been fired over a wage dispute; 2) an immediate conference between management and the union to discuss grievances; 3) an election at the plant to determine a bargaining agent and a promise from the company to sit down and bargain. When the company threatened to demand that the militia be called out, Knudsen...
...Lackawanna plant, workers accepted the terms with a whoop, convinced that the settlement was a triumph for S. W. O. C. Said Van A. Bittner, regional director and chief organizer of the strike: "This is . . . the first time on a large scale that our union has been able to get any sort of agreement from Bethlehem. . . .'' No one believed that Bethlehem had surrendered, but it was a notable truce. And for the time at least, Knudsenhillman had averted what might have been a bloody and disastrous battle on the defense industry's most vital front. Thirty-nine...