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...least one year. ¶ Some 1,500,000 men were thrown out of work; steelworkers lost $277 million in wages, or about $583 per man. ¶ Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson resigned in protest against Truman's policies. ¶ Congress stripped the Wage Stabilization Board of the powers WSB used in the steel case...
Pittsburgh Steel, twelfth biggest U.S. producer (capacity: 1,072,000 tons), came to terms with the union. It agreed to a modified union shop (new employees must join the union but can quit within the first month) plus an increase of 12½? an hour, v. 15? recommended by WSB. Just as promptly, National Steel's Ernest T. Weir, who has fought the national union, handed out a bigger raise (16?) to the 13,000 members of his independent union, who hadn't struck. Murray, picking off smaller mills one at a time, last week claimed that...
...President Alben Barkley gave them his congratulations for their "fairness" and "consideration." To the steel companies, the Veep gave the back of his hand. "It is un-American," he said, "for any group . . . to defy . . . the verdict of a Government agency . . ." (He meant steel's unwillingness to accept WSB recommendations, although they are not binding on disputants.) For the Veep it was quite a speech, but it was Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin who won the fawning contest. After Phil Murray had pinned a convention badge on him, Tobin said: "I don't feel any obligation...
Regional Public Service: WSB & WSB-TV, for "promoting the best interests of Atlanta, Ga. and the Southeast" in WSB's The Pastor's Study and WSB-TV's Our World Today...
...Administration) began hearings on a bill that would regulate Government seizures. The Senate Judiciary Committee (unfavorable to the Administration) prepared to rake over the constitutionality of Truman's action. With the Administration still backing him up, Steelworker Boss Philip Murray berated the companies, and called for the full WSB score, down to the last quarter note: "I expect the Government of the U.S. to impose the [WSB] recommendations...