Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union leaders still hoped to close the operating mills by strikes shutting off their ore supplies from Michigan, their coal supplies from Pennsylvania and by having automobile workers refuse to use the steel sheets from such mills as Newton Steel. The apparent trend of public opinion in the steel towns not only embittered union men but indicated that attempts would soon be made to open other plants besides the one at Monroe. This really alarmed the Governors of the States concerned. The battle at Monroe had shown what might happen if citizens and unionists were permitted to fight...
...Ohio, Governor Martin Luther Davey called his own meeting. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic and President Frank Purnell of Youngstown declined to attend in person but sent deputies to meet with Philip Murray and John Owens of the Steel Workers. Governor Davey proposed a compromise: let the companies sign a labor contract, and let the union promise not to demand the closed shop or checkoff. The meeting was adjourned without result but another was arranged for this week...
...Girdler [Chairman of Republic Steel] is a heavily armed monomaniac with murderous tendencies, who has gone berserk. Potter [William C. Potter,* chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.] and Grace [President Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel] have turned him loose upon the unarmed steel workers...
...Girdler should be disarmed and restrained by the Government before he turns the steel districts into a bloody shambles and looses all the pent-up forces of human passion...
Already Mr. Lewis had broadened the steel front by calling a strike in Bethlehem Steel's Cambria Mill at Johnstown, Pa., to cooperate with a strike which Railway Brotherhoods called on a little ten-mile railroad owned by Bethlehem and connecting its plant with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Boss Lewis proceeded to broaden the front still further by calling strikes in 17 coal mines owned by Republic, Youngstown and Bethlehem. The war which the Governors hoped to settle was getting bigger and uglier by the hour, yet up to them to settle it remained. For from the White House came...