Word: non-union
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...plague the industry. A prime item in the armistice allowed miners to select and pay their own weighmen to check the company's weighmen at the tipple scales. United Mine Wrorkers promptly proceeded to elect their own members as check weighmen. These the mine superintendents of the non-union Frick and Pittsburgh companies refused to recognize, on the ground that their non-union employes were unrepresented. Thus a new deadlock was created and NRA's special coal arbitration board headed by General Electric's Gerard Swope had its first "grievance" to straighten out. After hearing both sides...
...supported his code included Cleveland's Frank E. Taplin (North American Coal Corp.), Chicago's George Bates Harrington (Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal) and Omaha's Eugene McAuliffe (Union Pacific Coal Co.). After four days of red-hot controversy on the unionization issue, all coal codes were shunted back into conference where NRA deputies would hammer out some sort of agreement among 27 snarling factions. Unless the non-union coal operators voluntarily withdrew their restrictions on collective bargaining, as the steelmasters had already done, General Johnson was ready to kick the company union clause out of their code...
...Trouble started with H. C. Frick Coke Co., a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp. A few thousand Frick workers joined the United Mine Workers of America and struck in protest against the formation of company unions. The issue was whether the non-union Frick company would recognize the national union. It would not - on orders from the non-union U. S. Steel Corp. The strike spread so rapidly that many a miner was left down the shaft when his fellows abruptly walked out above ground. Because steel production had been booming for weeks, necessitating coal mine operation at full...
...week Labor was not only reconciled to but jubilant over Miss Perkins. She had clearly showed her stripe when she stood up for mill workers at the steel code hearing before NRA (TIME, Aug. 7). That hearing was to have been the first important test of the union v. non-union issue. Madam Secretary Perkins had gone in person to the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Baltimore to talk with employes. She returned to Washington prepared to make vigorous war on the steel industry's proposed company unions-''War bridegrooms" she called them, harking back...
...steel industry's backdown on "company unions" at NRA hearings in Washington did not diminish U. S. Steel's resistance to unionization in the coal fields. As a matter of "common sense" Governor Pinchot attempted to mediate the Fayette County trouble by summoning United Mine Workers and Frick Coke officials to a peace conference-a meeting which would put the non-union company into direct negotiation with its union...