Word: mill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
LOCKOUT, by Leon Wolff. The bitter story of the Homestead Strike in 1892, in which workers struck against the lethal working conditions at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill. Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie's second-in-command at the time, retaliated with a hired army of Pinkerton men; in four months of hostilities 35 were killed, 400 injured. When the strike was finally broken, men who were not fired went back to worse conditions and slashed...
...infinitely more visible than it would be in the U.S., and it arouses, if anything, greater resentment. Restricted in private industry by their background, and by union pressure, to the jobs that white workers refuse, the nonwhites have flocked to the unskilled occupations; they include the dead-hour mill shifts, the state-owned transit systems and nationalized hospitals, which pay some of the lowest salaries in Britain...
...July morning in 1892, a tug chugged up the Monongahela, towing two barges with a deadly cargo: 300 pistols, 250 Winchester rifles and a hired army of 316 Pinkerton men. Where Andrew Carnegie's Homestead mill sprawled along the south bank of the river, the barges beached. That was enemy territory, defended by a cannon, spiked clubs, small arms, and a force of strikers 10,000 strong. Hostilities began at once. One fusillade from the barges dropped 30 defenders, but not one Pinkerton got ashore. Homestead's striking mill hands had won the opening skirmish of a labor...
...important question: Can an employer close a plant entirely to avoid unionization? The answer is vital to multiplant textile manufacturers who have moved South in search of low-wage and largely nonunion labor. It is equally vital to the Textile Workers Union of America, still trying to organize Southern mill hands...
Rebuilding the corporate structure partly dismantled by Allied postwar regulations, Krupp reacquired such major divested properties as Bochumer Verein, a profitable high-quality steel plant, and Capito & Klein, originally part of the big Rheinhausen steel mill, went on to buy several big steel fabricators. It failed to sell Rheinhausen as required by an Allied directive, and the deadline has been extended so often (every year since 1958) that the sale is now regarded as a dead issue. Krupp might have done better to sell: Beitz admits that Rheinhausen is losing money, and outsiders guess that the loss has been running...