Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rounding out its first full month last week, the Steel Strike of 1937, biggest and bloodiest since 1919, entered upon a fresh, perhaps final, phase. From mill gate and picket line the major action shifted rearward to civil courts, State capitals, Congressional committee rooms and the editorial and advertising columns of the nation's press. Temporarily stalemated by martial law in two steel States, both Labor and Capital grasped desperately for the support of Public Opinion. And Public Opinion, without the support of which no major strike is ever won, seemed to be swinging slowly, imponderably to the side...
Upshot was that President Roosevelt personally requested the steelmasters to keep their plants closed until his Steel Mediation Board had done its work. And Ohio's Governor Davey dispatched 4,800 militiamen into the Mahoning & Trumbull Counties with orders to preserve the status quo. The plants stayed closed and, rare in U. S. history, the strikers greeted the arrival of troopers with loud cheers...
Meantime in their dove-papered suite in Cleveland's Hotel Hollenden (just a short way from where Murderer Robert Irwin was working as a bar boy-see p. 11), the members of the Federal Steel Mediation Board did their best to arrange a permanent peace. A compromise proposal- that the steel companies make agreements subject to Labor Board elections-was turned down flat by the steelmasters, though Mediator Charles Phelps Taft II was sure that the union would have accepted it or some variant of that proposal. The steel companies now maintained that the question was not. and never...
...true that the terms of the notices were virtually identical with conditions in plants with C.I.O. contracts and hence acceptable to C.I.O. But as the striking steelworkers promptly pointed out there was nothing except a steel-master's conscience and the fear of John L. Lewis to prevent him from posting new notices any day with new and lower wage scales...
...knew you were a gentleman." Just before the Steel Mediation Board adjourned Tom Girdler hurried off to Washington to testify before the Senate Post Offices Committee on C.I.O. interference with the mails, a subject which the committee later voted to drop. In fighting fettle, the tightlipped, hooknosed, bespectacled steelman put on an exciting show. Having read a spiced-up version of the statement given to the Mediation Board, Mr. Girdler immediately opened up on Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey, no member of the Post Offices Committee but on hand for a morning of Girdler-baiting. The Committee had understood from...