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PITTSBURG, June 8.--At this morning's session of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers the resolution to extend fraternal greetings to the Knights of Labor Iron Workers, also in ...
I n June 1936 when John L. Lewis set up the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee, the moribund Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers had some 10,000 members and no important contracts.
The UNITED STEEL WORKERS OF AMERICA in Cleveland has its roots in the 1870s with the formation of local branches of the Amalgamated Assn. of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers beginning ca. 1877. The ...
In the face of depressed steel prices, Henry c. Frick, general manager of the Homestead plant that Carnegie largely owned, was determined to cut wages and break the Amalgamated Association of Iron ...
The Lot of a Steel Worker. The life of a 19th-century steel worker was grueling. Twelve-hour shifts, seven days a week. Carnegie gave his workers a single holiday-the Fourth of July; for the rest ...