Word: weirton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administration knows the auto- mobile manufacturers will not voluntarily agree to any program permanently satisfactory to the American Federation of Labor. The feud between the automotive industrialists and the labor executives is too deep for that. Furthermore, the Weirton Steel Corporation case and other similar company union fights have made it obvious that a dispute revolving around this issue never is really settled by an employes' election...
...Weirton Steel Company, which has been a mote in the eye of General Johnson and the Labor Board for several months, has come out flatfooted against the wage and union provisions of the NRA. It has not only forbidden its employees to organize for purposes of collective bargaining but it has discharged several of them for joining unions. Memoranda on the case, petitions and affidavits, have been circulating back and forth between the Federal Trade Commission and the Labor Board; the first actual response of the Administration has been the filing of a suit for injunction against these practises...
...five more: Clay Williams, president of Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Leon Marshall of Johns Hopkins Law School; Ernest Draper, Manhattan food packer; Gerard Swope, president of General Electric; and Harry Dennison, stationery supplies manufacturer. Thus was the first step taken to give the Labor. Board new powers to settle the Weirton Steel and Budd Manufacturing Co. labor disputes...
...President summoned to the White House Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of Weirton Steel Co. (National Steel), ordered him to settle the labor row in his mills (TIME, Dec. 25). He also received Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit. When the priest emerged from the White House, he reported: "I discovered that Mr. Roosevelt is about 20 years ahead of the thought that is current in the country today...
...still pocking the nation from coast to coast, General Johnson warns the A. F. of L. convention: "The plain, stark truth is that you cannot tolerate the strike. . . . Public confidence will turn against you!" First crackdown, on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, whose Blue Eagle is recalled. Oct. 12-Weirton Steel strike starts. Oct. 25-Administrator Johnson announces NRA's reorganization into four industrial divisions. A fifth division, compliance, he personally takes in charge. Nov. 17-Steel, pointing to a 32.1% increase in wages, a 28.3% increase in payroll, announces it is "satisfied" with its tentative code, renews...