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...general wage boost, now being agitated by U. S. Steel's company unions, Chairman Taylor was silent. Consensus is that steel wages will be upped as soon as steel consumers can be persuaded to pay higher prices for the metal. For once the nation's steelmen are not adverse to a general pay increase because that action might undercut the efforts of John Llewellyn Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organization which is out to unionize the citadel of the open shop...
Last week the nation's steelmen stopped glaring at Labor's John Llewellyn Lewis long enough to take a hurried look forward to the future, a hasty glance back at what they had accomplished in the first six months of the fourth year of Recovery. As a whole, the steel industry earned more money than in any first-half period since 1930. It was employing more workers (500,000), paying them more per hour (67?), than in 1929. Individual pay envelopes were not so fat as in the New Era because the work was spread thinner...
...like code of wages and working conditions (8-hour day, 40-hour week, prevailing wages) for manufacturers and distributors who sell the Government at least $10,000 worth of goods per year. Expected to affect 75% of the nation's industry, it brought a prompt protest from steelmen who argued that Government supplies were a minor part of their business...
...Other steel companies which followed U. S. Steel in granting paid vacations included Jones & Laughlin, American Sheet & Tin Plate, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Steelmen estimated that vacations would cost the industry $9,000,000. Ernest Tener Weir's Weirton Steel offered employes the choice of a paid vacation or double pay for working straight through...
Since the death of the last Jones president in 1926, J. & L. has had no less than four presidents from outside. Most famed was Tom Mercer Girdler, now head of Republic Steel. It was during Mr. Girdler's term that Aliquippa became known to steelmen as the "perfect company town" and to labor agitators as the "Siberia of America." And it was under Mr. Girdler that J. & L.'s profits reached $20,800,000 in 1929. During Depression the company accumulated nearly $18,000,000 worth of deficits. Even under President Samuel E. Hackett, a master salesman...