Word: mills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curtly rebuffed by Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Frank Purnell, whose Indiana plants had been closed down. He would never, wired the steelman, make any agreement with C.I.O. directly or indirectly or ''through the Governor's office." The company announced the reopening of its Indiana Harbor mill but when the Governor sent no protective troops, the gates remained locked...
...nationwide system of price maintenance which retards recovery, adds to taxation and hogs unnecessarily large chunks of Government money released for building public works. According to the FTC, Federal and State agencies have been unable to get competitive bids in cement. South Dakota built its own cement mill as the only means of coping with the situation. The Tennessee Valley Authority got competitive bids only by threatening to follow suit...
...strike, an uproarious labor holiday in Lansing, a battle at the Ford plant, another at the opening of a steel plant in Monroe. In Illinois, Governor Horner had not prevented a pitched battle at the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. last February, a more deadly battle at Republic Steel's mill in South Chicago on Memorial Day. In Ohio, Governor Davey unsuccessfully tried mediation, but for three weeks the steel towns of the Mahoning Valley were armed camps, with steel mills under siege and casual fracases occurring at frequent intervals. In short, when serious labor trouble was batted out to them...
Governor Earle stepped in promptly when the steel strike spread to Bethlehem Steel's Cambria plant at Johnstown, Pa. First he sent in State police who with a firm hand arrested strikers as well as non-strikers to suppress violence. Since the mill continued to operate and the State police prevented the strikers from closing the mill by force, he was in the peculiar position for a Labor Governor, of "breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June...
...charcoal-fired forges of his own where Hay Creek entered the Schuylkill half-dozen miles south of Reading. From these two forges sprang the present town of Birdsboro and the Birdsboro Steel Foundry & Machine Co. William Bird's eldest son Mark added other forges, a rolling mill, slitting mill and what is believed to be the first U. S. nail factory. By the Revolution he was wealthy enough to outfit 300 men to aid Washington after the Battle of Brandywine. Continental Congress minutes record fat payments to Birdsboro for munitions of war. In 1783 Mark Bird petitioned Congress that...