Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of too little money, strikers carry the burden of too much time. During the first few weeks of the strike, many of them found it pleasant to have leisure for fishing and do-it-yourself projects. But then boredom set in. "I wish it was over," sighs Steel Mill Machinist Louis Webb, saturated with TV. "I like to work." Even worse than boredom for some strikers is a growing feeling of helplessness as the strike drags on and savings dwindle. "Sometimes when I go to bed," says Frank Sekula, "I think: Here I am a head of a family...
WHEN the air is clean around here," says a longtime resident of Youngstown, "we're not happy." In good times, the city's steel mills along the dirty Mahoning River roll out nearly 10% of the nation's steel, and a sooty haze from the smokestacks lingers inescapably in the air. Last week with the steel mills strikebound since mid-July, the air in Youngstown was ominously clear...
...jobholder out of four in metropolitan Youngstown (pop. 225,000) is a steelworker, and thousands of other breadwinners, notably the railroaders who haul to and from the mills, are directly dependent on steel for their living. Thousands more, from the busmen who drive steelworkers to their jobs to the doctors who treat their illnesses, are indirectly dependent on the now-silent mills. When the mills are strikebound, Youngstown feels a tightening pinch. But this time, after 2½ months of shutdown, Youngstown is enduring its pinch with remarkable serenity, surprisingly little hardship...
Even with their problems of money and morale, Youngstown's steelworkers and their families are neither angry nor restive-not yet, anyway. "We've had a steel strike in the Mahoning Valley almost every two years since the war," said Union National Bank President Asael Adams Jr. "There's very little clamor or bitterness. People are quiet and peaceful. Maybe they're getting used to steel strikes." Added Steelworker Matt Inchak as the strike stretched into its twelfth week: "I'll stay out twelve more weeks if we have to. I've been...
...float the Queen. A diver went down, looked at the gaping holes in the starboard side; they ranged down as far as 46 ft. Lloyd Deir decided the team would need a prefabricated patch to cover the holes. It would have to be of three-eighths-inch steel, 20 ft. by 30 ft., weighing eleven tons. Deir and the others crouched on the deck, drew diagrams in chalk. "We all pitched in," says Cook Henley Doughtie, "but you can't really help Lloyd Deir. He's the kind of guy that wants to do everything himself...