Word: steelmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stockholders and steelmen knew this was no remote, hypothetical situation, but that Cyrus Eaton's Republic Steel is angling for Gulf, can probably muster at least 40% of the voting power. Meanwhile, U. S. Steel, foreseeing new competition in this territory, last fortnight announced it will spend "millions" on its subsidiary, Tennessee Coal, Iron...
Some, however, do not think. Others think and discreetly do nothing. But out of the concern of a few churchmen for the welfare of tough-hided steelmen arose the war of Church v. Steel. Last week a long truce in that war was broken, and decisively broken, by the Church...
...decade ago it was common for steelmen, throughout the industry to spend at least twelve hours a day at their sweaty, appalling tasks. Thousands of them waked at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, went to work until 6 o'clock the following morning. There was a similarly industrious day shift. The seven-day week was a commonplace. In June, 1923, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued a detailed, dramatic report of these conditions. The report constituted a declaration of war. After interminable skirmishing the first major victory for the Church...
...steel in the U. S. So momentous was its apparent concession, to churchly demands ("apparent"-because, of course, it was not admittedly a concession), that many happy humanitarians assumed that the issue had been settled, forgot that some 60% of the nation's steel was being produced by steelmen whose hours were still presumably long...
...Council they brought back information which was startling and dismaying. Their statistics revealed that 132,628 steelmen, or 53.4% of the whole number investigated, were still working ten hours or more a day. Of these 16,610 worked twelve hours, 5,320 worked eleven hours, the rest worked ten hours. The seven-day week held in thrall 66,712 steelmen, or 26.9% of the total number. These figures, abrupt and impersonal, called up before the churchmen visions of a race still living with hardly any leisure save sleep, spending lives in a dark servitude scarcely more desirable than actual slavery...