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...spots where 6,508,950 tons (11%) of new pig-iron capacity, recommended by OPM last month, is scheduled to arise. In addition to enlargement and rehabilitation of existing blast furnaces, the pig-iron program includes ten new furnaces: one each at Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala., Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio (for Republic Steel), at Johnstown, Pa. and Lackawanna, N.Y. (for Bethlehem), at Braddock, Pa. (for U.S.), at Pueblo, Colo, (for Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo, Utah (or perhaps at Pittsburg, Calif.) U.S. Steel's Columbia works is due to get three more blast...
First kick was delivered in April while the Steel Workers Organizing Committee was negotiating with U.S. Steel for a 10?-an-hour raise. Just as a compromise seemed likely, non-union National gave its workers a voluntary 10? raise, thus forced U.S., Bethlehem, Republic, Otis, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, etc. to follow suit (TIME, April...
...members as anti-union Weir had done unasked for his employes), C.I.O. had to insist on the full 10? rise which it had proposed originally as a barganing point. Other steelmakers had no way out of following Weir's lead. This week not only did Bethlehem, Republic, Otis, Youngstown Sheet & Tube all grant a 10? wage increase, but U.S. Steel ended the fear of a Big Steel strike by settling with C.I.O. on the same basis. This will raise their labor costs around 16%. Their estimates on how much production costs would be raised...
...Have read the letter from Mary Rohrabaugh of Youngstown that says, "I hate war" [TIME, March 10]. Who doesn't? Lincoln, too, hated war, so did Washington, so does all the civilized Christian world; but the time to cry out against it is past when the evil forces in the world make it inevitable. Lincoln and Washington mourned the sacrifice of the youth of our land to war in their day, but they had no choice...
...Youngstown, Ohio...