Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diplomatic Illness." Inland Steel Co. had followed throughout the tactics of its bigger independent allies-Bethlehem, Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Last week, like them, it was prepared to reopen its East Chicago plant without any C.I.O. agreement, a sure invitation to violence unless Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana would send troops to the East Chicago area. Governor Townsend refused to do so. He was reported sick abed at home with tonsillitis...
...wreck's start Republic's Tom Mercer Girdler and Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Frank Purnell had announced the reopening of their plants in the Youngstown district. Picket lines were hastily strengthened, C.I.O. reinforcements summoned from nearby industrial centres. A pitched battle seemed inevitable. To Secretary of Labor Perkins went a plea from John L. Lewis to "prevent this contemplated butchery." Said Mr. Lewis: "I told her that sornewhere there should be a power that could be exercised tonight to restrain this madman Girdler...
Stocks of the struck steel companies, however, suffered no more than others. Bethlehem was down from the year's high of $105.50 to $76.50 per share; Youngstown Sheet & Tube from $102 to $74.75; Republic from $47.25 to $31.25; Inland from $131.25 to $94.75. Yet U. S. Steel was also off from its high of $126.50 to $92.50 per share and Chrysler sold below $100 for the first time in more than a year. Most spectacular break was in Auburn Automobile, which crashed from $23 per share to $13.50 in four days...
...last fortnight the zealous trio of churchmen made a quick dash into the great and grim labor war in Steel (see p. 11). At Struthers, Ohio, while Monsignor O'Toole and Father Hensler looked approvingly on, Father Rice stood in the rain, harangued encouragement at strikers of Youngstown Sheet & Tube's coke plant. Ohio priests who had kept mum on or disapproved the C.I.O. were discomfited to learn that once more the Radical Alliance had the approval of higher church authorities, obtaining permission to invade the diocese from Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Back in Pittsburgh last week...
Then Mr. Morgan took the box of paper back and had each sheet bound into a copy of the 350-page Democratic campaign book. This book, in which many businesses had bought advertising space, was sold last year at the Democratic convention for $2.50 a copy. With the President's autograph bound in, the same book, dressed up in leather covers, was offered as a de luxe President's edition at $250 a copy. Letters went out urging people to buy, accompanied by contracts, suggestively filled out for the purchase of four copies for $1,000. In case...