Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follette report was by no means the last chapter in John L. Lewis' unsuccessful siege of "Little Steel." As far as Mr. Lewis was concerned the strike was still on, except against Inland Steel and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube plants in the Chicago area where Indiana's Governor Townsend had patched up truces. There was heavy rioting last week at Republic Steel plants in Cleveland and in Cumberland, Md. But some of Mr. Lewis' coal miners returned to a Sheet & Tube captive mine last week, and reopening of all captive mines was expected shortly- except those...
...drinking group formed the spring before and called the Whiffenpoofs. G. Schirmer, Inc. contest that they got the rights to the song for an official Yale Song Book. Miller Music, Inc. protest that Authors Minnigerode & Pomeroy authorized them to publish the song as arranged by Vallee, as sheet music last year...
...branched into trailers, truck frames, refrigerator car hatches, parts for hydraulic lifts, and a neat little sideline in old rail joint angle bars, which the company retreats and reforges until they are as good as new. Run by Youngstown's William Wilkoff, one of the founders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, the company has about $1,300,000 in assets, needs cash to pay off some notes and to increase working capital so it can handle bigger orders in the railway car division, which also manufactures new cars...
Meantime in Indiana Governor Townsend patched up a truce between the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and Youngstown Sheet & Tube, pending a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board on the question of signed contracts. Unlike the Inland Steel truce, in which both sides made definite agreements with the Governor, this truce was informal. After the company made a few changes in its labor policy regarding vacations, the S. W. O. C. called off its pickets in Indiana Harbor, broke out 30 barrels of beer for a "victory" celebration as 7,000 workers prepared to return to the last closed plant...
Successful though he was with Inland, Governor Townsend was 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...