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12 Companies (Steel Companies Coordinating Committee) Exhibits A-J3

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Consist of the transcripts of the proceedings (2 vol.), the Board's final report, and the exhibits submitted by the union and the steel companies.

Union exhibits before the first Board include a statement of issues and the position of the union by its attorney, Arthur J. Goldberg; correspondence between the union and the major steel corporations, April-October, 1959; a brief by Goldberg on the -national emergency issue; a brief by Leon H. Keyserling on the steel strike and the recession of 1958; a brief by Meyer Bernstein on the issue of foreign competition; and briefs by staff officers of the union on other specific economic issues.

Major steel companies involved in the strike include the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, ARMCO Steel Corporation, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Inland Steel Company, Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Raiser Steel Corporation, United States Steel Corporation, Wheeling

United States. Board of Inquiry on the 1S59 Labor(CONTINUED} Steel Corporation and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, among others. Exhibits presented by this group include a statement of management's position, correspondence between the corporations and the union, April-July, 1959, statistics bearing on the dispute, and statements on inflation, profits, and foreign competition, among other documents.

Exhibits submitted to the second hearing include exchangee of offers between the union and individual companies; statements on behalf of the union by Goldberg, David J. McDonald, USWA president, and George Meany; and statements on behalf of management by R. Conrad Cooper and K.C. Lumb, among other documents.

Dates

  • 1960

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

1 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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