Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of the Federal postmasters refusal to send packages of food (on the ridiculously flimsy ground that they were not accepting "any irregular packages" during the steel strike), came the ukase from Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, leader of one of the most ruthlessly efficient city machines since Boss Tweed held sway in Gotham, that Republic Steel must henceforth stop housing workers in the temporary quarters set up in the Chicago plants. This is because the Company is "violating city health and building ordinances", a statement so palpably absurd, when the temporary living conditions established inside the plants...
...profit & loss account, of $6,737,000 in reserves indicating that the company has salted away $26,-427,000 during 1936, over seven times as much as in 1935-With a total surplus of $600,000,000 Ford Motor Co. is well prepared for a costly strike now or later...
...Steel Institute in Manhattan (see p. 66) the Steel Workers Organizing Committee last week signed labor contracts with a few more companies including Crucible Steel and American Steel Foundries. Just before the Institute began its deliberations, S.W.O.C. took a more drastic step. It was not yet ready to call strikes against big Bethlehem and National Steel, but it issued a strike call in the plants of three other big independents: Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland. Promptly 27 steel plants, most of them in Ohio and Illinois, were shut down, some 75,000 men quit work...
Cause of the strike was the refusal of the three companies to make written agreements with S. W. O. C. Said Republic in a statement to employes...
...outstanding problem in today's industrial life" declared Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace in a farewell address to the members of the American Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan last week. To the nation's steelmasters, gathered in record numbers against a backdrop of the biggest steel strike since 1919 (see p. 13); the outstanding and directly related question was Mr. Grace's successor as head of the Steel Institute. The settlement by which Myron Taylor had made his peace with John L. Lewis had split the industry as it had never been split before. Outmaneuvered...