Word: steeled
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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...
...although many a potent steelman considers the union a blessing, S. W. O. C. contracts begin to expire in February, starting with Big Steel, and the fact that the steel industry is operating at only 27% of capacity will not assist their renewal on terms favorable to the union. From union figures it was estimated that 224,000 steel & allied workers have been laid off in the past few months, and that only a small fraction of those still employed are working full time. Union membership has sagged, as it always does in hard times, and dues are so hard...
...Last week the Maritime Commission called for bids on twelve new fast cargo ships, some of which American Export will presumably buy. The specifications are for single screw steel ships: length, 435 ft.; breadth, 63 ft.; draft, 25¼ ft.; speed 15½ knots (about 17½ m.p.h. 6 m.p.h. faster than average U. S. freighters); range, 13,000 miles; to cost around $1,700,000 each and to be completed within 14 months. All must be swiftly convertible into useful war vessels...
...automobiles, coal, steel and cement production, car loadings, department store sales, he predicted next year would be worse than this. For petroleum refining, unemployment and business failures he predicted increases. For electric power and tobacco products little change...
Last week the following were news: ¶ Huge U. S. Steel Corp. has long struggled with what is probably the world's toughest management problem-how to run efficiently an industrial enterprise employing some 200,000 men and $1,800,000,000 in total assets. Last week in the august atmosphere of its headquarters at No. 71 Broadway, Manhattan, another move was made in the grand administration plans which Chairman Taylor hopes to complete before he turns the company over to Chairman-elect Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. next April. A new subsidiary, U. S. Steel Corp, of Delaware...