Evening star., 1937-05-23
ABOR[EADSDRVE
ON ! STEEL FIRMS
Workers of 1877 Companies
Revealed Affected by
Contracts.
BY the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH. May 22.-Chairman
Philip Murray Of the Steel Workers
Organizing Committee asserted today
employees of 1877 steel companies were
now affected by union contracts as
he prepared to carry his collective
bargaining campaign against employ.
ers of $4,000 additional workers.
The union concentrated its efforts
to win signed contracts against Re-
public Steel Bethlehem, youngstown
Sheet g. Tube, Crucible Steel and
Inland Steel
Leaders of the steel labor drive,
sponsored by the John L. Lewis Com
mittee for Industrial Organization,
said the union victory at Thursday s
Jones g. Laughlin Steel Corp. employe
election would be powerful lesson"
for the producers who have thus far
failed to sign.
Contract Signing Tuesday.
Murray will meet next Tuesday with
Chairman H. E. Lewis of Jones 6
Laughlin to sign an exclusive bar
gaining contract as result Of the
unions better than two to one ma
jority at the election-the largest
Government supervised bargaining
balloting.
He will confer Monday with ofncials
of Crucible and receive their answer
to his demand for a contract affecting
their $4,000 workers
IT agreed upon, this contract will
recognize the union as collective bar
gaining agency for its members only.
Similar compacts have been signed
with the steel units OF the United
States Steel Corp and other smaller
independent producers.
But Murray recently announced he
would seek exclusive bargaining agree
ments in the future from the remain
ing steel firms independent of big
steel"
Strike Threatened.
He issued a sign or we strike"
threat against Republic, Bethlehem.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland.
Regional Director Van A. Bittner
will have a showdown Tuesday with
officials of Inland who employ about
1000 men in the Chicago district.
Murray called 36-hour strike last
week affecting $1,000 workers at Jones
81 Laughlin, which was settled by
agreement on Labor Board election.
He has said he would not be re-
sponsibie for keeping the men at work
IN other major steel plants If their
managements refused to sign union
contracts.
A Government-supervised vote will
be held at plants OF the Sharon Steel
Corp. in Sharon. Pa, and Lowellville,
Ohio, next Tuesday.
Results will determine if the union
is to receive an exclusive bargaining
contract to represent all of the firms
5000 employees.
Contracts Signed Recently.
Headquarters of the union an
nounced additional contracts had been
signed recently with the following
companies:
National Can Co., Maspeth, Long
Island, N. Y; Latrobe Electric Steel.
Latrobe, Pa; Macintosh -Hemphill.
Pittsburgh; Penn Metals, Parkersbure.
W. Va; Ferro Alloys, Canton, Ohio:
Union Electric Steel, East Carnegie
Pa; Stearns Magnetic Manufa cturine
Co., Milwaukee, Wis.,: Concrete Prod
ucts Co., Neville Island. Pa; Duer
Spring Co., McKees Rocks. Pa; Ache
son Manufacturing Co., Rankin, Pa ::
American Shear Knife Co., Home
stead, Pa; Mirific Products Co., Cam
ton. Ohio.
The union said Regional Director
blttner had notified it that the Amer
lean Steel Fcundries Co., one of the
largest tonnage producing foundries
IN the country, had agreed to sign 4
union contract next Monday in Chi
oago.
Paul Rusen, a sub-regional director
OF the union. said he was ARRANGING
Tor parade through Ohio Valley mill
towns May 80 in celebration Of the
unions victory in the Jones Il Laueh-
lin election.