Word: steelmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart of the steel problem cannot be calculated. It is the heart of the whole defense problem: the lack of an economic coordinator of all industries, with a knowledge of what U.S. grand economic strategy is to be. Steelmen have had to revise their figures upwards once because of the unexpected railroad-car demand; an equally unexpected demand for utility equipment may force them to revise upwards again. What they need is warning from an official bookkeeping headquarters where such demands will not come as a surprise...
...other steelmen were much less philosophical over losing their hoped-for price boost. Asked one "spokesman": "How can the industry be expected to increase wages 50% as it has since 1929 and then be permitted to have an increase of but 2% in average steel prices in the same period?" But New York Times Columnist C. F. Hughes pointed out that despite the increased hourly rates the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a decline of 2.6% in the unit labor cost of steel between 1929 and 1939. Furthermore, other Government figures covering part of the period since then show...
Whatever flaws they may pick in the plan, however much they may dislike labor's brashness in offering to help them run their business, steelmen, with the calculating eye of the Administration upon them, are not likely to brush the plan aside. (Several steelmen cooperated with Mr. Murray in his survey.) In one respect steelmen can feel pleased: it is a notable change for the better that labor should show eagerness not only to make demands for itself but to face the industry's problems...
...labor leader, steelmen regard him publicly with the suspicion that they reserve for labor leaders. But privately they respect him. Said one steel executive: "He handles his own crowd better than most steel company presidents handle theirs." They know him as a hard bargainer, but they admit that he is square...
Last week the northeast quarter of the arsenal was glassed in, the floor was laid and the first of the equipment was rolling into the building on railroad flatcars. The steelwork was about 90% complete and glaziers were on the heels of the steelmen in the rest of the building. Major Kadlec could proudly announce that the arsenal, complete with powerhouse, office, hospital building and test track, would be ready on schedule, April...