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Youngstown State University Oral History Program
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM 1952 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Steel Strike Personal Experience O.H. 1218 RUSSELL L. THOMAS Interviewed by Andrew Russ on October 28, 1988 Russell Thomas resides in North Jackson, Ohio and was born on January 18, 1908 in East Palestine, Ohio. He attended high school in Coitsville, Ohio and eventually was employed for the United Steel Workers of America in the capacity of local union representative. Tn this capacity, he worked closely with the Youngstown's local steel workers' unions. It was from this position that he experienced the steel strike of 1952. Mr. Thomas, after relating his biography, went on to discuss the organization of the Youngstown contingent of the United Steel Workers of America. He went into depth into the union's genera- tion, it's struggle with management, and the rights it obtained for the average worker employed in the various steel mills of Youngstown. He recollected that the steel strike of 1952 was one that was different in the respect that President Truman had taken over the operation of the mills in order to prosecute the Korean War effort. He also discussed local labor politics as he had run for the posiUon of local union president. Although he was unsuccessful in this bid for office, his account of just how the local labor political game was played provided great insight into the labor movement's influence upon economic issues and public opinion. His interview was different in that it discussed not only particular issues that affected the average Youngstown worker employed in steel, but also broad political and economic ones that molded this period of American labor history. -
Experiences of C.W. Editor in Steel Towns with C.I.O
Experiences of C.W. Editor in Steel Towns with C.I.O. Dorothy Day The Catholic Worker, August 1936, 1, 2. *Summary: Impressions from a fact-finding tour of Pennsylvania steel towns and interviews with such figures as Bishop Boyle of Pittsburgh; John L. Lewis, chairman of the CIO; Kathryn Lewis, his daughter; and John Brophy, Director of the CIO. For readers seeking background information on the steel/labor struggle, she recommends several books. Applauds church and government efforts to support labor in its struggle to organize and notes with satisfaction The CW ’s ability to transcend race and ethnic boundaries. Keywords: labor, unions, social teaching (DDLW #302).* A story like this is too big to compress in one column. Impressions crowded upon one over two weeks of constant observation are hard to put down on paper. There could be an interview with Bishop Boyle of Pittsburgh; with John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee on Industrial Organization; with John Brophy, director of the committee; with Philip Murray, head of the Steel Workers’ Organization Committee (SWOC); with Pat Fagin, president of District No. 5 of the United Mine Workers; with the wives and mothers of steel workers; with Father Kazincy, who spoke from a wooden platform out in an open air mass meeting at Braddock last Sunday; with Smiley Chatak, the young organizer of the Allegheny Valley; with the Slovaks, the Croatians, the Syrians, the Italians and the Americans I have been seeing this past month–individuals among the 500,000 steel workers who have been unorganized, oppressed and enslaved for the last half century in the giant mills of the American Iron and Steel Institute. -
The Rise of the Pension and Social Insurance Program of the United Steelworkers of America, 1941-1960
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports 2019 Bargaining for Security: The Rise of the Pension and Social Insurance Program of the United Steelworkers of America, 1941-1960 Henry Edward Himes III [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd Part of the Labor History Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Himes, Henry Edward III, "Bargaining for Security: The Rise of the Pension and Social Insurance Program of the United Steelworkers of America, 1941-1960" (2019). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 3917. https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3917 This Dissertation is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by the The Research Repository @ WVU with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Dissertation in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you must obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself. This Dissertation has been accepted for inclusion in WVU Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports collection by an authorized administrator of The Research Repository @ WVU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Bargaining for Security: The Rise of the Pension and Social Insurance Program of the United Steelworkers of America, 1941-1960 Henry E. Himes III Dissertation submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Ken Fones-Wolf, PhD., Chair Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, PhD. -
1947-01-30, [P ]
Thursday, Janqary 30, 1947 THE POTTERS HERALD PAGE FIVE Worken Charge THIS BUSINESS *947 Discrimination Comment On World Events OF M WK MMMf' iw Mwr: Denver (FP)—Charges that the Agriculture Department has dis An interesting step in the field went on, the United Nations would or aapca/n/no twr*- criminated against beet workers in of world improvement of labor go a long way toward removing our fiVf/M MMCff fixing minimum wages were level conditions will soon be taken by the fear of imperialism that has AND ed here at a government factfind a United Nations agency, which influenced underdeveloped coun By MARY MOORE ing hearing on 1947 sugar beet in is planning action toward framing tries. dustry wages and prices. an international code to guarantee “It has the potentialities of re* fair labor practices and standards HAVE YOU HEARD? Commander Edith Stallings, AAODucrsotf, The hearing, which was recessed moving some of the causes ppooucr/wrr until Jan. 31, is one of four being on all projects financed by inter ious friction,” he said. The United States Public Health chief of Air Waves, USNR, was on national funds. Service estimated that 60,000 or hand for the Air Maneuvers, and held by the department. One has The economist explained that the /8* This is an extension of the idea more infants might be saved an commented only that women have ON TMF been held in Detroit and, after official attitude of the United OOlfAff . nually by universal use of a new done a great job in the WAVES, Denver, the board will move on to carried out in federal legislation States toward the idea had not medical method that provides vir proving especially valuable in com Salt Lake City and Berkeley, Calif. -
Soviet Union
REPORT of the CIO DELEGATION to the SOVIET UNION Submitted by JAMES B. CAREY Secretary-Treasurer, CIO Chairman of the Delegation Other Members of the Delegation: JOSEPH CURRAN REID ROBINSON rice-President, CIO Fice-P resident , CIO President, N at ional M arit ime Union President , Lnt crnational Union of .lIint', J / ill and Smelt er Il'orkers ALBERTJ . FITZGERALD r ice-Pre siden t, CIO LEE PRESSMAN President , Un ited E lect rical, R adio and General Couusrl, c/o JIacliine W orkers 0/ .Inisr ica JOHN GREEN JOHN ABT rice-President, CIO General Cou nsel, Amalgamat ed Clot hing President, Indust rial Union 0/ M an ne and W orku 5 0/ .lmeri ca Sh ipb uilding W orlecrs LEN DE CAUX ALLAN S. HAYWOOD Pu blicit y D irect or, CIO, and E dit or, Tilt' Fice -President, CIO C/O N m 's D irector 0/ Organization, CIO EMIL RIEVE VINCENT SWEENEY r ia-President, CIO Pu blicit y D irect or, United St rrlzcorlerrs President, T ext ile W orkers Union oi A merica 0/ A merica; Editor, St eel Labor Publication No. 128 Price 15c per copy; 100 for $10.00; 500 for $40.00 D epartment of International Affairs Order Literature from Publicity Department CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS 718 JACKSON PLACE, N. W. WASHINGTON 6, D. C. \ -- . ~ 2 rr To Promote Friendship And Understanding... " H E victo ry of the United Nations over the military power of fascism T opened up prospects of a new era of int ern ational understanding, democratic progress, world peace and prosperity. -
The Little Steel Strike of 1937
This dissertation has been Mic 61-2851 microfilmed exactly as received SOFCHALK, Donald Gene. THE LITTLE STEEL STRIKE OF 1937. The Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1961 History, modem ; n University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan THE LITTLE STEEL STRIKE OF 1937 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Donald Gene Sofchalk, B. A., M. A. ***** The Ohio State University 1961 Approved by Adviser Department of History PREFACE On Sunday, May 30, 1937, a crowd of strikers and sympathizers marched toward the South Chicago plant of the Republic Steel Corpora tion. The strikers came abreast a line of two hundred Chicago police, a scuffle ensued, and the police opened fire with tear gas and revolvers. Within minutes, ten people were dead or critically injured and scores wounded. This sanguinary incident, which came to be known as the "Memorial Day Massacre," grew out of a strike called by the Steel Workers Or&soizing Committee of the CIO against the so-called Little Steel companies. Two months previously the U. S. Steel Corporation, traditional "citadel of the open shop," had come to terms with SWOC, but several independent steel firms had refused to recognize the new union. Nego tiations, never really under way, had broken down, and SWOC had issued a strike call affecting about eighty thousand workers in the plants of Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, and Inland Steel Company in six states. The Memorial Day clash, occurring only a few days after the * strike began, epitomized and undoubtedly intensified the atmosphere of mutual hostility which characterized the strike. -
The Effects of Radical Groups on the Labor Movement
THE EFFECTS OF RADICAL GROUPS ON THE LABOR MOVEMENT By HUGHi G. CLELAND* T HIS paper is, in a sense, a response to what was a most im- Tportant presidential address by Dr. Philip S. Klein at our meeting last year in Philadelphia. One of the striking points that Dr. Klein made at that time was that our journal, PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY, has devoted only one half of one per cent of its articles to Pennsylvania history since 1865. "Pennsylvania historians," said Dr. Klein, "know almost nothing about their state since the end of the Civil War, and do not seem to be doing very much about it."' Dr. Klein noted that we have also been somewhat unbalanced in our treatment of ethnic groups in the Commonwealth. The Scotch-Irish, the German church people and the Plain Sects, whose history has been treated quite extensively, today make up only about ten per cent of our population. The history of ethnic or cultural groups who have arrived more recently is still largely unwritten. One could not help but be struck by Dr. Klein's state- ment that there are now 200 Catholics in Pennsylvania for every Quaker and 200 people of Jewish faith for every Amishman. Dr. Klein believes that the study of the period since the Civil War and of the contributions of newer ethnic and religious groups is "the primary challenge of the next 25 years for the Pennsylvania Historical Association." This paper is an attempt to contribute in a very small way to filling the void. Primarily it is an attempt to indicate some of the areas where research would seem to be indicated for graduate students or more mature investigators in the next few years. -
First to the Party: the Group Origins of the Partisan Transformation on Civil Rights, 1940–1960
Studies in American Political Development, 27 (October 2013), 1–31. ISSN 0898-588X/13 doi:10.1017/S0898588X13000072 # Cambridge University Press 2013 First to the Party: The Group Origins of the Partisan Transformation on Civil Rights, 1940–1960 Christopher A. Baylor, College of the Holy Cross One of the most momentous shifts in twentieth-century party politics was the Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights. Recent scholarship finds that this realignment began as early as the 1940s and traces it to pressure groups, especially organized labor. But such scholarship does not explain why labor, which was traditionally hostile to African Americans, began to work with them. Nor does it ascribe agency to the efforts of African American pressure groups. Focusing on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), this article attempts to fill these gaps in the literature. It explains why civil rights and labor leaders reassessed their traditional animosities and began to work as allies in the Democratic Party. It further shows how pressure from the new black-blue alliance forced the national Democratic Party to stop straddling civil rights issues and to become instead the vehicle for promoting civil rights. NAACP and CIO leaders consciously sought to remake the Democratic Party by marginalizing conservative Southerners, and eventually succeeded. The partisan transformation on civil rights is arguably became the party of states’ rights. The civil rights the most important twentieth-century case in Ameri- transformation arguably presaged the future partisan can politics in which parties changed positions on division on cultural issues as well. -
The 1952 Steel Seizure Revisited: a Systematic Study in Presidential Decision Making Author(S): Chong-Do Hah and Robert M
The 1952 Steel Seizure Revisited: A Systematic Study in Presidential Decision Making Author(s): Chong-do Hah and Robert M. Lindquist Source: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Dec., 1975), pp. 587-605 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. on behalf of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2392025 Accessed: 26-02-2015 21:54 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Sage Publications, Inc. and Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Administrative Science Quarterly. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 128.83.205.78 on Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:54:11 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions The 1952 Steel Seizure There is a paucity of conceptual approaches to and sys- Revisited: A Systematic tematic case studies of presidential decision making, especially in the area of domestic policy. The three mod- Study in Presidential els advanced by Graham T. Allison in Essence of Decision Decision Making are applied to the 1952 steel seizure to explain why Presi- dent Truman decided to seize the mills. -
Volume 17, No. 1
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President's Daily Diary Collection (Box 74A) at the Gerald R
Scanned from the President's Daily Diary Collection (Box 74A) at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library THE WHITE HOUSE THE DAILY DIARY OF PRESIDENT GERALD R. FORD PLACE DAY BEGAN DATE (Mo., Day, Yr.) THE WHITE HOUSE MARCH 19. 1975 L WASHINGTON, D.C. TIME DAY 7:15 a.m. WEDNESDAY IPHONE TIME ] ""'u ACTIVITY ~ c: e>:" II II In Out c.. e>: 7:15 The President had breakfast. 7:49 The President went to the Oval Office. 7:50 8:15 The President met with: David A. Peterson, Chief, Central Intelligence Agency/Office of Current Intelligence (CIA/OCI) White House Support Staff Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs 8:25 8:46 The President met with his Counsellor, Robert T. Hartmann. 8:46 9:07 The President met with his Assistant, Donald H. Rumsfeld. 9:07 9:20 The President met with his Counsellor, John O. Marsh, Jr. 9:20 9:52 The President met with: Mr. Hartmann Mr. Marsh Mr. Rumsfeld Max L. Friedersdorf, Assistant for Legislative Affairs Ronald H. Nessen, Press Secretary 10:00 10:45 The President met with: Senator Russell B. Long (D-Louisiana) Mr. Marsh Mr. Friedersdorf 11:00 11:30 The President met with: Frank E. Fitzsimmons, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters John T. Dunlop, Secretary of Labor James M. Cannon III, Executive Director of the Domestic Council and Assistant for Domestic Affairs 11 :33 12:25 The President met with: William E. Colby, Director of the Central Intelli gence Agency (CIA) James R. Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense Philip W. -
Council Cuts Kevport School Budget $91,000
Free Parking <• Wqptber There if OP charge st meters Snow today and tonight vftfa In the Red Bank parking tots after 6 p. m. Wednesdays and temperatures at the freezing Fridays, Red Bank's two shop- mark. Partly cloudy tomorrow. ping nights. See page 2. An Independent Newspaper Under Same Ownership %f Since 1878 BY CARRIER PAGE ONE Iiiiud Dilly. Mondw throuih Fridiy. «nt«red u Second Clm Muter RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960 7c PER COPY 35c PER WEEK VOLUME 82, NO. 140 at tht Po«t Office at Red Bulk. N. J., under th« Act of Mirch 3. 1879. Magee Will Run Senate Seven Council Cuts For Mayor Post; Filibuster Cardinals Kevport School Continues Named j j. WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen, VATICAN CITY (AP)-Pope Matthews to File Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex) John XXIII today designated pressed for a compromisa bill to- seven prelates of the Catholic Budget $91,000 FAIR HAVEN — Councilmen day while the Southern filibuster Church to be cardinals. They in- Price Will Not Eugene Magee will oppose Coun- against civil rights legislation cluded the first Negro, the first Japanese and the first Filipino Seek Re-election cilman Tony E. Hunting In seek- gathered momentum. ing the Republican nomination for Sen.. Russell B. Long (D-La) ever elevated to the College of .61 Tax EATONTOWN - F. Bliss mayor in the April primary elec- set a new speechmaklng record Cardinals. 6 Inches ••;*•' Price, Democrat who has been tion. for the current day-and-night Their elevation will bring mayor In this predominantly Mr.