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Next day from Pittsburgh came word that U.S. Steel and C.I.O. had decided to try again. Whatever agreement was reached was to be retroactive to April 1. Half-hour before the new truce was made known, Ernest T. Weir, head of National Steel (which has no C.I.O. contract), granted employes a wage increase of 10?an hour. A 10? increase was what C.I.O. was demanding from U.S. Steel...
Federal Conciliator James Dewey rushed to Detroit, earnestly conferred with Michigan's Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner, company men and union leaders, trying to find some formula for a truce before riot ran rampant at Rouge. Finally the company agreed to close the plant and negotiate tentatively, the union agreed to remove the barricades and send maintenance men into the plant to bank fires, keep them going...
Near midnight, Knudsenhillman called newsmen to Knudsen's office, in weary triumph announced the terms of a truce. The union's first two demands would be met. As for an election, OPM and NLRB would explore the possibilities. Heavy with fatigue, arm-in-arm, Knudsenhillman shuffled home...
...Said Van A. Bittner, regional director and chief organizer of the strike: "This is . . . the first time on a large scale that our union has been able to get any sort of agreement from Bethlehem. . . .'' No one believed that Bethlehem had surrendered, but it was a notable truce. And for the time at least, Knudsenhillman had averted what might have been a bloody and disastrous battle on the defense industry's most vital front. Thirty-nine hours after the strike began, steel was beginning to roll again in Lackawanna...
...Bevin, the Trades Union Congress and all British labor are working with British business is wonderful. In every business meeting I attended there were labormen present and active on the think level. Some labormen say the truce is only for the duration, that after the war business and labor will be fighting again. . . . But two things brought about this present cooperation:1) Hitler-when bombs started raining down, everyone got fighting mad, got together; 2) Britain's wartime leaders. Whatever Churchill's past mistakes, today he is the perfect rallying post. The cabinet is cohesive. And the King...