Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back finally caved in, and the doctor said any man who works 46 years in a mine, mill or construction job, as I have, deserves a rest. So I retired on 80% Social Security and a small carpenter's pension. Millions of Americans work very hard for their money and are glad to retire at 65 or earlier...
...occasion of Carter's remarks was itself unusual: a White House conference on steel, attended by mill and union bosses and presided over by the Administration's chief trade negotiator, Robert Strauss. That it was called constituted Administration recognition that the steel industry is in bad trouble: rising imports of cheaper steel from Japan and Europe in August captured almost 20% of the American market, causing layoffs of some 60,000 American workers, slicing steel company profits and forcing the closing of old mills in several cities. Steelmen have long complained that much of the foreign metal...
...ultimately bring to the U.S. steel industry is questionable. The Treasury Department will have to thrash out pricing problems that approach the metaphysical. According to the way they add up the numbers, for example, the Japanese steelmakers contend that they are not dumping, just producing steel more efficiently. American mill executives swear that cannot be true. Says Speer: "No foreign producers, including those in Japan, can manufacture steel, ship it to this country and undersell our domestic product without engaging in unfair trade practices...
That will wipe out 5,000 jobs directly and perhaps 12,000 in total, counting retail clerks, bartenders and others indirectly dependent on mill payrolls-a hefty proportion of an area work force that numbers no more than 200,000. And it will not be the end. A few days after Sheet & Tube's announcement, U.S. Steel said it would lay off 200 workers at its Youngstown plant. Though the company described the step as "routine," Youngstowners are well aware that U.S. Steel is seriously considering building a modern steel complex in Conneaut, 50 miles away. If it decides...
...Sheet & Tube] plant leaves, the whole valley will die," says one Campbell Works employee. "It will kill our business," adds Jim Carlucci, owner of Frank's Party Shop in a Struthers shopping center. In Campbell and Struthers, dismal little taverns near the mill gates were filled with workers morosely drinking up one last time. Most were quiet, but in Shirley's Bar in Struthers, eight angry steelworkers yelled, "We want jobs, not jackets!" They had received coupons entitling them to free jackets for helping set production records on open-hearth furnaces a day before they got their notices...