Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...considerable extent in other cities, dependent almost wholly on the situation of a "fight to the finish" between union labor on one side and on the other an organization which is doing its best to get rid of an exclusively unionized labor. We have blamed, with reason, the Bethlehem Steel Company for seeking to restrict the sale of its steel to "open shop" builders, but it must be acknowledged that the offence of these manufacturers is mild compared with that of labor union officials who manage to unionize establishments merely in order that they may make great fortunes in bribes...
Among the plants that are open to inspection are those of C. F. Hathaway and Sons of Cambridge, the New England Structural Company of Everett, the Norton Company of Worcester, the Reed and Prince Manufacturing Company of Worcester, and the Wickwire Spencer Steel Corporation of Worcester. In each case the superintendent or some man in charge of the plant will conduct the men through the various departments, explaining the methods and processes in detail...
...Williams, Director of Personnel of the Hydraulic Steel Company of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1918 to 1920, spent seven months in 1919 working as an unskilled laborer under an assumed name in three steel mills, two coal mines, two shipyards, an oil refinery, and a railway roundhouse. During this period he kept an interesting diary which has since been published by Scribner's under the title of "What is on the Worker's Mind," and has gone into the second edition. In the summer of 1920, Mr. Williams spent three months working in the coal mines of New South Wales...
...almost every case when I became acquainted with the foreigners who make up the greater part of the labor gangs in the iron and steel mills, I found that they resembled everyone else in the important points if not in the minor. They were always anxious to take good care of their families and to give their children an education. They were anxious to stand well among their neighbors but we must remember that their neighbors' viewpoint was different, perhaps, from that of ours...
...mind of both the skilled and the unskilled laborer today," declared Whiting Williams last evening at the Union, speaking in the light of his ten months' experience as ordinary workingman in the mines, shipyards and factories of the United States and Great Britain. "When I was working in a steel center in Pennsylvania thousands had been laid off, and more were losing their jobs every day. Seventy-five men waited out in the cold for several hours on the chance of being one of the two men wanted for one day's work. When you have seen such conditions...