Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monroe. Biggest demonstration of public opinion took place at the town of Monroe, Mich., where Newton Steel Co., a small subsidiary of Republic, had been closed by the strike. Pickets held the one road leading to the mill and refused to allow non-strikers to pass. The city election commission polled the mill workers on the question of returning to work. The returns were 856 for, 20 against. Although S.W.O.C. advised its members not to vote, this was a clear majority of the plant's 1,322 workers. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs announced that the plant would be opened...
...strikers were not having a bad time, playing baseball and ping-pong in off hours. But Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly acted to end their cloistered life. He wrote Republic Steel a polite letter declaring that the men were living in quarters (a wire mill) not designed for residence, an infraction of the city's health and housing ordinances. They would have to be evacuated within 48 hours. When the time expired, the company shunted 21 Pullman cars inside its gates, installed about 600 workers in them, said the rest would go home at night...
...Kuhn, Loeb has lately financed a new strip steel mill for National Steel Corp...
...Front-page story: "KUHN, LOEB FINANCE NEW STRIP TEASE MILL. Will Produce Cold and Hot Rolled Shapes and Both Wide and Narrow Strip Products...
...signing contracts with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee (TIME, March 15). The small fry of the steel industry rapidly followed suit. Only possible obstacles to complete organization of Steel were the major independents, Bethlehem, Crucible, Inland, Jones & Laughlin, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, American Rolling Mill. Fortnight ago the storm broke over them with a brief 36-hour strike in Jones & Laughlin, which was settled when the management agreed to stake all on a labor election to determine by majority vote whether or not S. W. O. C. should have exclusive representation for all Jones & Laughlin...