Word: youngstowners
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Anyone who reads about the critical situation caused by Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.'s relocation of its steel mills [Oct. 3] should be as horrified by the news as are the citizens of this area. We need action by people all over the country to pre vent more of these abuses. If companies are allowed to walk away from areas where they have been located for years every time the Government imposes new regulations or equipment wears out, there are going to be many more Youngstowns. Why should the worker who has given years of hard work be pushed...
Janet Jackson Youngstown, Ohio...
There are good reasons for cutting back in Youngstown while expanding elsewhere. The mills lining the Mahoning River are so old that some steelmen describe them as antiques. Bringing them up to modern standards would be an expensive job, and it cannot be put off. A few days before the Sheet & Tube decision, the Sierra Club won a federal court ruling ending the exemption that eight Mahoning valley steel plants had won from meeting federal clean-water standards...
...shock waves are being felt in Washington. Youngstown Mayor Jack Hunter, Ohio Senators John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum and a hastily formed caucus of Congressmen representing steel communities urged President Carter to formulate a national policy to help the steel industry. Imports, especially from Japan, have badly hurt the domestic industry. At week's end five busloads of steelworkers from Sheet & Tube demonstrated at the White House and on Capitol Hill, carrying signs like STEEL VALLEY TURNING TO GHOST TOWN. What most of the protesters want are quotas on imported steel and an easing of the antipollution rules that...
...Administration seems in no mood to come to the rescue. How much help such moves would be to the Youngstown area is questionable. The iron ore and coking coal deposits that originally drew mills to the Mahoning valley have long since been mined out, and the inland complex can no longer compete with steel centers boasting deep-water ports. Youngstown's days as the nation's steeliest steel city seem to be over...