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Pattern for Union-Busting
Baldinger, Wilbur H. | November 15, 1947 issue

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This article reports on labor movement in the U.S. The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America had staked nineteen strike weeks and nearly $300,000 in a gamble for peace-time survival. The Bethlehem Steel Corp. took almost the whole pot in this cruelly uneven industrial concept. Bethlehem lost shipside money in the contest but it could easily afford it in view of the end gains it expected. In October 1947, running its steel mills 102 per cent of capacity. Bethlehem smashed all delivery records with 879,285 net tons of rolled steel and other finished products.

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STRIKES & lockouts; LABOR unions; LABOR movement; BETHLEHEM Steel Corp.; STEEL industry & trade; UNITED States
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