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Outside Bethlehem Steel Co.'s Lackawanna plant, in freezing weather, Polish, Negro and native-born steelworkers angrily marched in a picket line, on strike. Inside, one by one, open-hearth furnaces shut down, production dwindled, came almost to a standstill...
While the committee deliberated, workers in 20 defense plants in the U. S. were out on strike. Most of the strikes were little ones, some even insignificant. Of greater concern to observers than any struck plant was the touch-&-go situation at Lackawanna, N. Y., where the long rumble of C. I. O.'s struggle with Bethlehem Steel was gathering into a roar. C. I. O. steelworkers, asserting that 300 fellow employes had been locked out of a coke plant in a dispute over a wage increase, voted to call a general strike in protest. A walkout at Lackawanna...
...Lackawanna, N. Y., Bethlehem's plant where members of C. I. O.'s steel workers agitated for an adjustment of wages, work was held up by "stoppages...
...Central Railroad of New Jersey; New York Central; New Jersey & New York; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Lehigh Valley; Pennsylvania; Reading; Erie; New York, Susquehanna & Western...
...quipped, in 1870, that frock-coated John Insley Blair built railroads to use steel from his mills, towns to provide traffic for his railroads. One of the great railroad barons, he helped found the Chicago & North Western, the Lackawanna and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri. In 1890, at 88, he capped his great career by founding the famed banking firm of Blair...