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...demanded, have the right to represent all steel workers in a plant where a majority voted for union representation. Sooner or later it was evident that Miss Perkins was going to sit down with the steelmasters of the U. S.-Grace of Bethlehem, Taylor of U. S. Steel, Weir of Weirton, Girdler of Republic-and try her prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot of U. S. Steel's employes last week showed, according to Iron Age, that 95% of the company's employes opposed a strike, the bloodiness of all past steel strikes made...
Judge Nields had to do some heavy reading. Last June Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir installed a company union, modeled on that of Bethlehem Steel, in the plants of his Weirton Steel Co. at Steubenville, Ohio, Clarksburg, and Weirton, W. Va. Last September the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers (A. F. of L. affiliate) called a strike in his plants and demanded recognition from Weirton Steel. The strike was settled when the National Labor Board got Steelmaster Weir to agree that the National Labor Board should supervise a union election in his plants in December (TIME, Dec. 25). Less than...
...Steelman Weir was as elated over this decision as union labor was cast down. More embarrassed than either, however, were a number of gentlemen in Washington...
...year. One good reason for National's amazing record is the strategic location of some of its plants in the centre of the Detroit automobile industry. Questioned about a report that he had been offered a $1,000,000 annual salary from another steel company, Chairman Ernest Tener Weir last week refused to name the bidder, but declared: "I'm glad I didn't accept...
...steelmaster's hero for his embattled stand against the labor provision of the Street Code, Chairman Weir was also glad last week when Secretary Ickes approved a contract of $47,402.89 let to National's subsidary Weirton by New York Central R. R. for spikes and tie plates. Pending in a Wilmington, Del. Federal court is the Government's action against Weirton for violation of the labor section of the National Industrial Recovery...