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...ANNA M. R. STONE Weirton...
...however, leaders of big corporations like Weirton Steel and Timken Bearing insisted that the Republicans run behind the right-to-work amendment. The amendment, which said that employees could not be compelled to join union, drew the violent and almost unanimous opposition of the labor forces, the result that O'Neill, after defeating Michael V. DiSalle by 450,000 votes in 1956, lost by the same number two years later...
...Jones & Laughlin's President Avery C. Adams hails the process as "the only major technological breakthrough in the steel industry since the turn of the century." Last week Air Products announced three new plants for steel companies. It will build and operate a $10 million plant for Weirton Steel, j a $3,000,000 plant for Granite City Steel, and a $7,000,000 plant for Jones & , Laughlin. Accounting for 25% of industry j sales, Air Products has helped bring the cost of oxygen down from...
...Chicago market. It will process steel from National's Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, where National will add 500,000 tons of capacity, boost its total to 7,500,000 tons, only 500,000 tons behind fourth-ranking Jones & Laughlin. Counting further expansion at Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, W. Va., National will spend $300 million through...
...Right. When Weirton Steel Co., which had a company union, was struck, Weir personally polled his men, decided that outside union organizers were responsible, refused to allow a National Labor Relations Board election. National Recovery Act Administrator General Hugh Johnson threatened him with "jail in 24 hours." but Weir stood firm even under desperate White House coaxing. His hot court battle against a key NRA clause forbidding company unions ended in victory. A federal judge held that NRA applied only to interstate commerce and did not cover Weirton, an event widely held as the beginning...