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...resigned weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 6). In a move that surprised many he replaced him with Edward Reilly Stettinius, 42, ex-vice president of General Motors, ex-chairman of U.S. Steel and now ex-Lend-Lease Administrator. Cordell Hull himself, said Washington wise men, had asked for the steelman who looks like a tall Charlie Chaplin...
When Secretary of Labor Perkins was approached by the mine operators after the initial negotiations and then John R. Steelman's conciliation had failed, the good madam, following the regular procedure for settling disputes in war industries established under Executive Order 9017 of January 1942, certified the dispute to the War Labor Board. The operators, because they knew the board's desire to "hold the line" (as requested by the President) on wages and prices would result in a decision in their favor, were delighted to accept the order. The U.M.W., with a real grievance lying back of their demand...
...reports to the President, prepared before the present crisis, John R. Steelman, director of the U. S. Conciliation Service, pointed a finger directly at the operators, accusing them of failure to bargain collectively with the union and refusal to make counter proposals when they refused the union's demands, something which the NLRB has called an unfair labor practice. He pointed out that the operators had throughout the negotiations maintained an aloof, purely legalistic attitude, supporting themselves on the evasive contention that under the Economic Stabilization Act and the various allied executive orders the miners were not entitled...
President Roosevelt in 1939 recognized the Vatican's unique position in world diplomacy, sent retired Steelman Myron Taylor to Rome as the President's personal emissary to Pope Pius XII. Taylor since then has been three times to Rome...
...result was that Sir Stafford Cripps . . . appointed a new managing director [Steelman George Ernest Marden] with full powers, whom he personally introduced to the Joint Production Committee, and that he has promised to see the workers again two months hence if they still think that the organization of the factory is unsound...