Word: steelmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Encouraged by steelmen and not denied by motor makers is a persistent rumor that other automobile companies will take a tip from Henry Ford and buy or build their own steel plants. Steel's biggest customers resent the fact that under the steel code they no longer get discounts on their orders. Last week it was no sooner discovered that General Motors was dickering for an option on Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., than it was learned that negotiations had been dropped...
...While steelmen bitterly denied the charge of collusion, President Roosevelt stepped in to blast the deadlock in order to get men back to work. He proposed splitting the difference squarely in half with a price of $36.37½a ton. The steelmen agreed. So did Mr. Eastman...
...Steelmen at first balked at U. M. W. recognition at their "captive mines" lest it prove an entering wedge for the unionization of their steel workers. The steel companies were ready to give their miners everything but that-and that was the one thing the U. M. W. miners were standing...
...voluntary peace move, agreed to run their mines in concert with the coal code, giving their men the same wages and hours as prevail in commercial mines. This agreement was promptly approved by President Roosevelt in the hope of placating the strikers. But they stayed out, insisting that the steelmen must give them full recognition. When virtual recognition seemed attained last week, U. M. W. leaders ordered the 75,000 strikers back to work...
...code up for a NRA hearing last week was Steel's. Its provision for company unions as a means of collective bargaining between companies and their workers threatened a major deadlock. NRA looked forward fearfully to a knock-down-&-drag-out fight. General Johnson had bluntly hinted to steelmen that they could not qualify the law by such labor clauses. When the hearing opened President Robert Patterson Lament of the Iron & Steel Institute (since leaving Washington as President Hoover's Secretary of Commerce) announced amid great applause that the industry had agreed to knock the company union provision...