Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 1936 when John L. Lewis set up the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, the moribund Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers had some 10,000 members and no important contracts. Working from a big modern office covering the entire 36th floor of Pittsburgh's Grant Building-a few floors above Ernest Tener Weir's anti-union National Steel Corp.-the S. W. O. C. has since then put on the most efficient organizing campaign in the history of U. S. labor. In 18 months it 1) opened company towns to union organizers, 2) jacked the Amalgamated...
...review its record and ponder its future the S. W. O. C. last week held its first national convention in Pittsburgh. Since S. W. O. C. is not a union but an organizing group headed by Philip Murray, the convention was, in effect, a policy-making body made up of nearly 1,000 delegates from Amalgamated lodges. Four out of five delegates went to the convention straight from the heat of the mills. Nearly half of them were old company union men who had helped lead their organizations into C. I. O. Daily for four days they packed themselves into...
...Pittsburgh last week, Rev. James R. Cox, plump priest who once led a "jobless army" to Washington and announced himself a "Jobless Party" candidate for President of the U. S. in 1932, hit an unforeseen snag in a campaign by which he had hoped to raise $20,000 to pay the debts of his new St. Patrick's Church. Father Cox, who in 1935 charged people 25? apiece to see a "miraculous" image of Christ formed in soot on a chimney which he had transported to Pittsburgh from a coal miner's shack in Collier, Pa., lately thought...
...Towns to be visited in the next three weeks: New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Columbus, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Albany and Montclair...
...this corporation will be governed by a board of executives representing all phases of management in the operating units and headed by 47-year-old Benjamin Franklin Fairless, president-elect of the parent company. Headquarters of the new management corporation, which will determine all operating policy, will be in Pittsburgh, in harmony with "the atmosphere of steel operations." Thus Big Steel continues its announced program of rededicating Pittsburgh as the steel capital of the U. S. In the future only purely financial matters will be the concern of the Manhattan office...