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...would take big chances," J.D.R. Jr. exhorted his colleagues. "If we keep at it, and follow up all possible clues, we shall eventually reach the desired goals." Often it was not easy. One dark season more than 20 people were killed in picket-line skirmishes at the Rockefeller-controlled Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. In Manhattan angry crowds howled for J.D.R. Jr.'s blood: "Shoot him down like a dog!" J.D.R. Jr., first reacting instinctively to defend his Colorado managers, later went out to Colorado with a bright young Canadian labor-relations expert named W. L. Mackenzie King (who became...
...tough, Labor Secretary Mitchell called a secret meeting in Manhattan between McDonald and the presidents of U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic Steel. The Pittsburgh talks were resumed. Then, on July 21, the bargaining broke up. McDonald, his bags packed, prepared to take off on a barnstorming tour of his picket lines...
...Motor Corp. (Morris and Austin) laid off 6,000 workers made "redundant" by the falling car sales abroad and at home, trade unions ordered 51,000 workers to quit in protest. Much to everyone's surprise, more than half the workers reported to work anyway, crashing through mass picket lines in trucks, fistfighting their way through the gates. Most of those fired quickly found other jobs in the Midlands. The unions, however, stubbornly held out for reinstatement of the whole lot. Yet mobility of labor is one of Britain's needs of the hour: in a labor-short...
...still. But with 650,000 steelworkers on strike and the key industry of the nation's economy shut down, neither labor nor management seemed to be particularly bothered or bitter. Strikers waved their signs only when news photographers whooped them on, spent most of their tours on the picket line playing ball, shooting craps, or gazing at television sets plugged into management's power outlets. In Gary, Ind., pickets used an air-conditioned, seven-seat mobile toilet lent them by U.S. Steel. An Inland Steel official called the situation "a comic opera." Said a U.S. Steel executive...
...Lace Curtain. On Nov. 22, 1902, the night David McDonald was born in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood section, his father was walking a picket line as a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. David McDonald Sr. had been a union man since he arrived in the U.S. from Wales, was hustled out of Springfield, Ill. for union activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude...