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Such a rugged individualist as Republican Ernest Weir was bound to draw the fire and ire of Philip Murray's C.I.O., the Roosevelt Administration and the National Labor Relations Board...
Almost from the day when he scraped up enough money to buy a tin-plate plant, Ernest Tener Weir has fought the national labor unions. He continued to fight them as his tin-plate plant grew into the big Weirton Steel Co. of Weirton, W.Va. and Steubenville, Ohio. His policy was to pay his workers well; frequently he paid better than the rest of the steel industry. The last strike he had was in 1933. He did his bargaining with company unions...
...There is no indication now of a decline from the present high operating rate," said Ben Moreell, president of Jones & Laughlin, the fourth biggest U.S. steel company. "I think production will stabilize at around 100% . . . for the rest of the year," National Steel's Chairman Ernest T. Weir cheerfully predicted: "All steel production records will be broken this year...
...yard medley relay: Woods, Ward, Stroud. 220-yard freestyle: Berke, Kiney, 50-yard freestyle: Fox, Brown, Dive: Briggs, Weir or Manhelm. 100-yard freestyle: Fox, Watkins, 150-yard backstroke: Steinhart, Woods. 200-yard breaststroke: Vielman, Wheeler or Graham. 440-yard freestyle: Berke, Tolf. 400-yard freestyle relay: Watkins, Sachnoff, Stroud or Brown...
...take seconds. The breaststroke is all Dartmouth; Harvard can get only third. The backstroke will go to the Crimson's John Steinhart, but Tom Woods will need his best to take second or third. Indian Dick Rogers will win the dive with Win Briggs of Harvard runner-up. Gordon Weir will fight it out for third...