Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barricaded the streets with overturned coal cars. They ripped up rails, destroyed signal equipment, scattered broken glass at crossroads, where their wives shrilly ordered cars and trucks to turn back. At Quaregnon, 20,000 strikers and sympathizers jammed the city square under banners crying: "Death to the Coal and Steel Community!" "Work, not Charity...
...cost is far above that of the big, modernized mines in the German Ruhr. Last year's recession created a glut in European coal-the surplus now stands at 26 million tons, with 7,000,000 in Belgium alone. The formation of the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community-creating a common market in these products in France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-finally forced the government's hand...
McDonald, at a special news conference, said even reduced work schedules would not entirely solve the unemployment problem in the steel industry...
...Steel Union Official Favors Short Work Week...
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 27--David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, talked with enthusiasm today about workers spending less time in mills. But he said the USW policy makers must decide if reduced work schedules will be an issue in forthcoming contract negotiations with the basic steel firms...