Word: weirton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said to be the largest unincorporated town in the U. S., Weirton, W. Va., population 16,000, lies in a fold of the hills about 40 mi. west of Pittsburgh. Its arterial main street bisects the dingy rambling mills of Weirton Steel Co. On narrower streets that wind up the steep hills, Weirton's workers live in frame houses, built against the hillside. Two miles outside Weirton, in dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature...
News from New Cumberland Court House concerned National Labor Relations Board's hearings on charges brought against Weirton Steel Co. by C. I. O.'s Steel Workers' Organization Committee. Among the 6,479 cases which N. L. R. B. has handled, this one stood out because Weirton Steel Co. and its board chairman have long been among the stubbornest and most effective opponents of the New Deal's labor policies. In 1933-35, Weirton Steel bluntly snubbed NRA by refusing to hold a labor board election, and was upheld by a Wilmington, Del. Federal district judge...
...bench as Labor Trial examiner was Edward Grandison Smith, for the past ten years president of University of West Virginia's Board of Governors. Through his glasses, honest, deliberate old Mr. Smith looked down on an imposing array of Weirton attorneys headed by Clyde A. Armstrong and opposing them. N. L. R. B.'s youthful prosecutors, 27-year-old John Wolcott Porter and 32-year-old Allen Heald. Behind the lawyers sate loyal Weirton company union men with red, whit & blue badges, side by side with C. I. O. members and organizers with bright yellow...
...national hookup flowed the public voices of Lowell Thomas, Ford Bond, John B. Kennedy-a battery of radio talent extolling Mr. Sheldon's 35 years as boss of Allegheny. Civic representatives spoke in praise of Mr. Sheldon's benefactions. Telegrams and letters of congratulations were read from Weirton Steel's Ernest Tener Weir, Bethlehem Steel's Charles Michael Schwab, Pennsylvania Railroad's Martin Withington Clement. Said Radio Commentator Kennedy: "Sheldon's name is large in the steel industry, but its size or power doesn't matter so much today, for here, in this...
...Steelman Millsop marched into the office of Steelman Weir, demanded a salesman's job at a fancy figure. Mr. Weir laughed. But the young man's rapid-fire self-sales-talk continued until Steelman Weir cried: "You've sold yourself to me." Following week, the new Weirton salesman brought in a $1,000,000 order. On the road for the next few years, he assiduously read Gideon Bibles in hotels, sold so much steel that in 1929 he was made assistant sales manager, later assistant to the president, finally vice president. Forthright, aggressive Mr. Millsop has been...