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...this week gave steelmen a special pat on the back. They deserve it. At midnight March 31, American Rolling Mill's Middletown division broke all previous monthly records in blast furnace, open hearth and blooming, bar and strip mill departments; Weirton Steel and Republic Steel likewise turned in new records. Meanwhile other industries face complete shutdowns. All refrigerator and vacuum cleaner output will stop April 30, all small electrical appliances on May 31, all lawn mowers and toys (metal and plastic) on June...
...Lewis demanded it; steelmen said...
...February Engineer Gano Dunn estimated defense steel needs for 1942 (including export) at 18,984,000 tons. Seven months later Donald Nelson estimated the same demand as 35,000,000 tons. Meanwhile steel expansion had been authorized to the extent of 10,000,000 tons. Yet when 600 steelmen came to Washington in November, OPM's Arthur Whiteside estimated their 1942 production at only 82,600,000 tons-200,000 tons less than output in 1941. For by then a new shortage had arisen that would more than offset the capacity increase: a shortage in steel...
Franklin Roosevelt, the Great White Father of Labor, is also President of the U.S. He summoned the disputants to the White House, told them off in language that had the forceful clarity of a long-suffering man boundlessly irked. To Steelmen Purnell, Fairless and Grace and the three chiefs of C.I.O., the President read the riot act in primer words: ". . . In the first place, we all know that the United States is in a state of national emergency. ... It is essential to national safety that we continue the defense production program without delay. . . . Coal for steel plants is a necessity...
Meanwhile, the giddy prospect of 99,000,000 tons made few steelmen happy. Even the 89,000,000 tons now assured to them is 22,000,000 tons more than they ever produced in a year. In thinking about new post-war markets, they see nothing but new post-war competition: from aluminum, with post-war capacity five times prewar; from enormously increased magnesium capacity; from substitutes (like plastics), encouraged by wartime shortages to entrench themselves in steel's peacetime markets. Last week (see p. 50), U.S. Rubber began invading aluminum, whose laboratories are already busy planning a huge...