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Convention. There are in the land between 5,000,000 and 7,000,000 people out of work. Three weeks ago that large part of Labor which works in steel, copper and textile mills received substantial wage reductions (TIME, Oct. 5). All last fortnight the movement continued, employers explaining that there must be less pay or no work at all. With the nation's banks and the world's economy at a crisis (see p. 13 and p. 15), Labor was expected to accept its share of the general misfortune in a peaceful spirit. For the most part...
...metallurgical engineers, found the current issue bound within a cover of real aluminum, cold rolled to 2/1.000 in. thickness. The publishers stated that other magazines had appeared with metal foil applied to paper, but never before with a cover of rolled metal. Future issues may be bound in lead, copper, nickel, brass, steel, zinc, molybdenum if manufacturers can be induced to follow the example of Aluminum Co. of America and donate the metal...
Morrow's most important work as a Morgan partner was in organizing a syndicate of bankers to find gold to pay New York City's obligations maturing abroad at the beginning of the War. He is also credited with the organization of the Kennecott Copper Co. and in allying General Motors with the du Pont interests...
...incautious to tread on the man's big toes, extremely imprudent to slap him in the face. He might be sluggish and slow to anger, but if aroused his wrath could be violent. Fortnight ago U. S. Labor, the large part of it that works in steel, copper and textile mills, decidedly had its toes stepped on. After sustaining wage levels through two depressed years while dividends fell and officers' salaries were lopped, employers at last reduced their workers' pay (TIME, Oct. 5). How would the giant with the sledgehammer take it? Up to last week...
...Steel, Copper, Rubber, Motors. Thus the greatest argument in U. S. business for the past year was settled. Many a potent industrialist is still against reductions, including President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph who carries great weight on the U. S. Steel directorate. But with Steel taking the lead, other companies rushed to follow. Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube followed suit so precipitously as to suggest that they had settled the argument long ago, were merely awaiting a strong lead to follow. As more and more steel companies were added to the list, absences became conspicuous...