Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impotent Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, on whose bones John Lewis is attempting to put robust flesh, was one of the strong est unions in the land. As its local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...
...last year's pennant winners, the Chicago Cubs, were a notch behind the St. Louis Cardinals on the morning of the Fourth. In the evening, they were a notch ahead of them because, while St. Louis was losing two games to Cincinnati, the Cubs were splitting two with Pittsburgh. In the second half of the season. Chicago's main strength will be the best pitching staff in the league -Warneke, Lee, French, Davis and Carleton. Weakness of the team so far has been the failure of Outfielder Augie Galan to bat as well as he did last year...
...workers locked out of Henry Clay Frick's Homestead mill near Pittsburgh captured a boatload of Pinkerton guards, won a historic industrial battle but subsequently lost their first attempt to force labor unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will...
Committee. Within the unsympathetic walls of Pittsburgh's huge Grant Building -tenanted by Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir and one of William Randolph Hearst's radio studios-fortnight ago the Steel Workers Organizing Committee set up headquarters, held its first meeting. Present, largely for form's sake, were Joseph K. Gaither and Thomas G. Gillis (the latter representing aged President Michael F. Tighe) of the little Amalgamated Steel Union, for whose withered and impotent favors the great forces of industrial and craft unionism within the A. F. of L. had just done mortal combat (TIME, June 15). Messrs...
...were to be Hans Kindler of Washington, D. C., Erno Rapee of the radio, Frank Black. National Broadcasting Co.'s general musical director. Karl Krueger of Kansas City and that most ubiquitous of summer conductors, Jose Iturbi. Also during the summer in Cleveland's Public Auditorium the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Symphonies would be sandwiched in between free concerts by Rudy Vallee, Wayne King. Paul Whiteman. Guy Lombardo and Major Bowes...