The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-29

that industry. That we shall be better able to tell later."
 Murray means the American Iron and Steel Institute. That is the group which published c paid advertisement iFl some S1b news papers stating the hostile attitude of the steel companies toward the organization drive.
 The cd is supposed to have cost around e60O,000, or roughly equivalent to the sum put up by the 0. !. o. unions for launching their membership drive.
 When the 0. I. o. has secured enough members for the Amalga. mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers so that the Anal. gamated is in Q position to bar. gain for the employees in steel, it will go to the institute and request Q blanket wage agreement cover. ing the whole industry.
 This will be refused. And the Amalgamated leaders will not Dc nearly as surprised ct the refusal as Murray's comment on the The stitute might indicate.
 The institute will assert that it has no power to make wage agree. ments for the entire industry, and that any such action iS quite for. eign to It's purposes and powers. Objective Made Plain
 What is the institute, then9 It is Q trade association, incorporated under the laws of New York state. It's objectives, as stated in It's con. stitution, arc: first, ito promote the interests of the iron and steel in. dustry, or any part or branch thereof"
 That would seem inclusive enough to take in almost any. thing. But the more specific ob- jectives added are, to collect sta- tiStics and information, to engage In investigation and research, to provide Q forum for discussion of problems, to promote the use of iron and steel, and to receive and hold property of all kinds and use 1t for furtherance of the stated ends.
 The activities of the institute date back 90 years, though 1t was incorporated in it's present form in 1908.
 Its present head iS Eugene c. Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel Vice presidents include W. A. Irwin of U. 6. Steel Corpora ton, and Tom dirdlOr of Republic Steel.
 The question of control of the institute has been gone over many times. Its membership consists of active, associate, honorary, and company members. Only active and company members vote.
 Each company thus hos only one vote as such. But individual ac. tive members arc mostly employees or officers of companies. And executives of the larger com- panies naturally predominate. Of g directors of the institute, four are U. 6. Steel members. Giant Companies in Control
 It is likely that U. s. Steel, Deth- lehem, Jones 6 Laughlin, and Re. public together control the institute. But since U. s. Steel now produces 3e per cent of ell U. 6. Steel (as compared with 06 per cent 90 years ago) end six large companies pro. duce 70 per cent of oil the steel, it would not Do strange if they doin- mated the institute.
 The activities of the institute were formally carried on in conn plete privacy. Only recently was it deemed advisable to use the in. Stitute as c means of reaching the public.
 Tn io33 it established Q public. fly division end began to act as c for the industry. Tn this field it Issued the recent of labor policy reaf- firming It's ancient stand for the open shop and limiting broadly that its members would resist any