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READER COM MENTS... 4
AS TH E EDITOR VIEWS T H E NEWS... 19
NEWS Court Condemns Labor Board, but Reform Must Comc from Congress.. 21
Appellate Court’s Decision in Inland Steel Co. Labor Case... 22
Investigation of Labor Board at Washington... 23
Stabilization, Keynote of Scrap Convention... 24
Steelworks Operations for Week ... 26
Men of Industry... 27
Obituaries
29Aviation ... 33
November Exports Up 30.5 Per Cent... 38
Faster Pace, Broader Scope in Canadian War Orders Promised... 39
Activities of Steel Users, Makers... 76
What’s New at Pittsburgh ... 77
Current Events in Chicago ... . ... 77
Meetings ... 78
WINDOWS OF WASHINGTON ... 31
MIRRORS OF MOTORDOM... ... 35
EDITORIAL—Government and Business... 40
TH E BUSINESS TREND Business Activity Back Near Pre-holiday Level ... 41
Charts and Statistics... 42'43 TECHNICAL Prefabricated Buildings ... 44
“Largest” Conveyor System for Shasta Dam... 57
Articulated Train of 14 Cars Features Welding, Stainless Steel... 60
New Departure in Barges... 62
METAL FINISHING Speed-Plating System ... 46
STAMPING Extruding Holes ... 48
PROGRESS IN STEELMAKING New Reel for Strip ... 50
MATERIALS HANDLING New Scalę Plant ... 54
NEW METAL PRODUCTS ... • •... 65
JOINING AND WELDING “Atomie” Welding ... 66
INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT ... 69
MARKET REPORTS AND PRICES... 79
The Market Week... ■ ■.. 80
BEHIND T H E SCENES ... 90
CONSTRUCTION AND ENTERPRISE... 96
IN DEN TO ADYERTISERS ... 102
P R O D U C T I O N • P R O C E S S I N G • D I S T R I B U T I O N • U S E
January 15. 194Q
The upper photographs show the operator mak
ing adjustments for grinding a twist guide, also details of cradle m ounting with splash guard removed. Below is shown a view from the rear of the machinę.
A mile of grooved section is too high a price to pay for "w orking in " a set of guides. Yet until now, there has been no single machinę on which guides of all styles and sizes could be accurately ground.
The M organ Construction Com pany has developed a new G uide Grinder to meet every reąuirement of this important job. It will handle guides of all types a n d sizes reąuired in a rod mili. Its m anuał and auto
matic C o n t r o l s provide for every adjustment— up, d o w n ,
backward, forward, for straight or twist guides. It is compact and seli-contained— can be set anywhere.
Here is an investment in eąuipment that will be worth miles of rod saved to you, in improved ąuality of finished section.
M ORGA N CONSTRUCTION C O M PA N Y W O RC EST ER, MASSACHUSETTS, U. S. A.
R E M O V E T H E L A G S
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P R O D U C T IO N • P R O C E S S IN G • D IS T R IB U T IO N • USE
As t he E d i t o r Y i e w s
H S T E E L production la s t w eek (p. 26) dropped V?.
point to 86 per cent o f ca p a city . N ew o rd ers (p. 79) averaged 40 to 60 per cent o f cu rren t shipm ents.
Backlogs on steel m ili o rd er books, how ever, rem ain large. Steel consum ption is exp ected to continue heavy over the n ext 60 to 90 d a y s. R a ilro a d con
sumption this ą u a rte r m a y exceed th a t in the fo u rth quarter. Autom obile production (p. 2 5 ) la s t w eek numbered 1 1 1 ,3 3 0 units, h ig h est level in h isto ry fo r a January week. A irp lan e m a n u fa ctu re rs (p. 3 3 ) h ave booked more orders sińce Ja n . 1 th an in a n y o th er similar period. Iron and steel product ex p o rts, not including scrap, w ere 30.5 per cent la r g e r in N ovem - ber (p, 38) than in October.
tro lle r o f iron and steel. . . . A p p ro x im a te ly $215 ,0 0 0 ,- 000 w a s spent fo r in d u stria l re se arch du rin g 19 3 9 b y 2000 U n ited S ta te s com panies. A bo u t 250 m a n u fa c
tu rin g co rp o ratio n s (p. 3 3 ) are su sta in in g lo n g-ran ge in v e stig a tio n s in re se arch foundations.
A steel com pany em ployed pan el-type construction in b uild in g 20 inside and outside u tility stru ctu re s.
A d v a n ta g e s (p. 45) included a su b sta n tial s a v in g in first cost. . . . A new electro p lat-
Cuts Costs
sy stem (P- 46) em bodies a com plete series o f clean in g and elec-60 Per Cent
tro p la tin g ta n k s w ith cylin d ers, tra n s fe rs and a u x ilia ry , a ffo rd in g m axim u m p latin g speed con sisten t w ith fin ish and e fficien cy o f solution. . . . A n electric m otor m anu- fa c tu r e r h as im proved on its fo rm e r m ethod o f ta ck w eldin g nuts to h e a v y sheet steel b ases. T h e sh eets now (p. 48) are pierced, fo rm in g extru d ed holes w hich a re tapped. B y th is m ethod ap p earan ce h a s been im proved and co sts h aye been cut 60 per cent.NLRB last week (p. 2 1 ) su stain ed tw o a d ve rse court decisions. On the whole, h ow ever, its cou rt record is good. B efo re the Su p rem e C o u rt it h as won 1 8 out o f 22 cases. A n y real B u y i n g reform in the natio n al lab o r rela- p p tions a c t and its ad m in istratio n ,
e o r m j(. seem s ciearj m u st stem fro m congress. A t W ash in gto n the special house com m ittee in v e stig a tin g the b o ard ’s conduct continued to reveal d a m a g in g evidence o f s and incompetence on the p a rt o f the b o ard ’s sta ff.
. Complete reform in b u yin g a ttitu d e o f iron and s eel scrap consumers is needed, it w a s declared at tteeting 0f the In stitute o f S cra p & S te e l In c. A plan
P- 4) to establish a fu tu re s m a rk et fo r scra p is under study.
A new paddle-type reel w in ds hot s trip and sk elp into coils a t m ili d e liv ery speeds up to 15 0 0 fe e t per m inutę. A recen t in sta lla tio n (p. 50) han d les strip to 36 inches w ide, in coils to
4 Miles to
Pounc^s - • • • ® ne the im portan t re su lts o f co n cen tratin g un-400 Feet
der one ro o f scalę m a n u fa ctu rin g operation s fo rm e r ly conducted in a num ber o f sep a ra te p lan ts (p. 54) is the sh o rten in g o f the h an d lin g line fro m 4 m iles to 400 feet. . . . H ig h -stren g th and sta in le ss steels and w elded constru ction (p. 60) fe a tu re two new S o u th ern P acific p a sse n g er tra in s. . . . A new p ro cess is a v a ila b le (p.
66) fo r jo in in g alum inum , alum inum a llo y s and s ta in less steel to geth er and to o th er m etals.
years b an k ru p tcy, F o lla n sb ee B ro s.
^P- O has been reorganized a s F o llan sb ee S tee l Corp.
teel production at C hicago h as gain ed ascend- anc y o ver m eat p a ck in g and now
25,000,000
rates (p. 7 7) a s the first in d u stry .Autom.obi.les ^ ' ?eneral Motors Corp' last
u n e s T h u rsd ay (p. 3 5 ) ro lled its 25,- rolpt . 000,000th autom obile o ff the C hev- Britkh Se+m i y ^ ne' ' ' ' C h a rles W rig h t, re tire ds ee m aster (p. 3 9 ) > js the new B r itis h con- January i 5; 194Q
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THE MAGIC EYES OF
INLAND’ S CONTINUOUS STRIP MILLS
The extreme sensitivity of these electrical eyes is derhcd from the photo-electric celi . . . the nerve center of modern
television, the photographer’s light meter, the tireless nigh1 watchman that sets off an alarm when a thread of ligi’11 broken . . . and is constantly finding new uses in industr)'
This application of the “electric eye” to modern stcc*
making is typical of many important control deviccs now being used to assure higher ąuality and greater u nifo rm 11,'
of all Inland sheets, strip and other rolled steel produc^
Whatever properties you may require of Steel, you v i i l n Inland men both well equipped and prompt to c o o p e r a t c u
securing them for you.
I N L A N D 1 5 1 r E E l L 1C l D.
38 S. Dearborn St., CHICAGO • District Offices: PflILWAUKEE • DETROIT • ST. PAUL • ST. LOUIS • 1KANSAS CITY • CINCINNATI
S H E E T S S T R IP T IN P L A T E B A R S P L A T E S F L O O R P L A T E S S T R U C T U R A L S P IU N G R A I L S T R A C K A C C E S S O R I E S
REINFORCING They “ see” the temperature of the steel being rolled
and keep records that aid in maintaining greater uniformity of ąuality.
It’s true. Modern continuous strip mills can have eyes that sec, and record what they see automatically.
These magie eyes
see heat.
Their vision includes every inch of hot strip that passes through Inland’s44"
and 76" strip mills. Located both at the entering and finishing ends of each mili, these automatic pyroineters read and record the entering and finishing temperatures of all steel rolled, aiding skilled heaters and rollers to maintain proper temperature conditions so necessary to high quality strip production.C o u rt C o n d e m n s L a b o r B o a r d . b u t R e f o r m M u s t C o m e f r o m C o n g r e s s
Branded unfair in lower courts, board and Wagner act have record of 18 victories in 22 cases before Suprem e Court.
Ju dg es say argum ents sliould be directed to legislators
0 DISCOURAGING to the New Deal’s notion that all industrial re- lations can be regim ented under a Washington bureau w as last w eek ’s news. The n ew s:
A federal circuit court at Chicago unanimously held the national labor relations board does not re ąu ire an employer to reduce to w ritin g an oral agreement with em ployes. A s the “written contract” issue w as paramount in the 1937 “ little steel”
strike, the significance of the de
cision immediately becomes appar- ent.
A second federal court decision issued in San Francisco set aside a NLRB order directing em ployes of Sterling Electric M otors, Los A n
geles, to disestablish a so-called com pany union. This decision should help to restore to standing com pany unions not controlled or dominated by employers and to c la rify the Wagner act’s original intentions.
At the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Corp., Binghamton, N. Y., em ployes
\oted overwhelmingly again st an y Union affiliation.
At Washington, the special house committee investigating the W agn er acts administration continued to reveal damaging evidence o f the bias and incompetence of the labor act’s administratora.
This record, as a whole, convinc-
■ngly discloses the danger of impos- lr>g upon a single agency the mul-
■Ple duties of prosecutor, judge, J ! f y , and executioner.” So declared e federal court at Chicago in re- veismg a labor board ruling again st St6el C°- Court held Inland been denied a fa ir and im partial nfal ' ngu due lai’8ely to the hostility 01 the board’s trial exam iner.
, decision, however, m ay be ap- Pealed to the Supreme Court.
aZ ! L rul,ng establishes a precedent ami n comPuls° f y signed contracts mPth^r° WS considerable light on Howp« S Uitec' 13y tłle labor board.
sive rp1"’ board has an impres- eisions ° n l -°f favorable court de-
• While a number of circuit January 15, 1940
courts have undertaken to restrict its powers, the Suprem e C ourt has upheld it in 18 of 22 cases.
Most im portant ru lin g a g a in st the board w as th at in the F an steel Met- allu rgical Corp. case in which the sitdow n strik e w as outlawed.
In other cases the Suprem e Court established the board’s jurisdiction, and g a v e the W agn er act a certificate
o f legitim acy.
B o ard ’s P o w ers Defined M ost serious threat to the board w as the attack on the alleged lack o f con gress’ pow er broadly to regu- late the labor relations o f business and in d ustry— regard less of w hether con gress sought to act through the courts or through the labor board.
A series of decisions, including that in the Jo n e s & L au gh lin Steel Corp.
case, held the interstate com m erce pow er of congress is broad enough to b ring w ithin the board’s ju risd ic
tion all m an u factu rin g plants which ship across state lines, either before
or a fte r sale, m ore than an insigni- ficant volum e o f goods.
N ext the jurisdietion al battle waged over w hether em ployers m ight go into fed eral courts and en- join the board from h earin g cases again st them or hołd elections on the ground the board lacked jurisdiction.
Decision in the Bethlehem Shipbuild
ing case and others declared that original jurisdiction in cases arisin g under the W agn er act had been con- fided by congress exclu sively to the labor board.
W ithin the past two w eeks the Suprem e C ourt has upheld the board’s pów er to determ ine: Appro- priate b argainin g un its; election pro- cedure; and w hat labor unions m ay participate in em ploye elections.
The present picture, therefore, m ay be sum m arized as fo llo w s:
1 — The act’s coverage is tremen- dously broad.
2—B oard ’s origin al jurisdiction is absolutely exclusive.
3— B oard ’s determ ination of all
Rebuked for Hostile, U njudicial A ttitude
20 Charles A. Wood, trial examiner ior the national labor relations board.
Referring to his conduct of the Inland Steel hearing, United States circuit court of appeals declared he "Laid aside all semblance of serving in a judicial capacity . . . Devoted very little time to exam ining witnesses fa- vorable to the board" . . . but. "his examination of witnesses for Inland was of great length. apparently for the pur- pose of im pairing the credit or weight to be attached to their testimony . . . Thought 200 witnesses were deliber-
ately evasive"
questions arisin g in representation cases is not only exclusive but also finał in that type of case.
An outstanding fact in the develop- ment of the board’s jurisdiction is that not once in n early five y ea rs has the board lost a jurisdictional case in the Suprem e Court. Predomi- nant theme in the court’s an sw er to jurisdictional attack s again st the board: C ongress has pow er to regu-
■ IN A precedent-setting decision the fed eral circuit court of appeals fo r the seventh district (Chicago), last week reversed “ in its en tirety”
a national labor relations board or der re ąu irin g Inland Steel Co. to bargain w ith the Steel W orkers Or- ganizing com mittee and to put any agreem ent reached into w ritin g.
C ase w as rem anded to the board fo r a new hearing.
The court’s 31-page decision w as perhaps the most sh a rp ly critical a n alysis of labor board tactics yet issued by any tribunal.
It adm inistered an especially severe rebuke to C harles A. Wood, trial exam iner in the case. More than h alf of the long opinion w as devoted to establishing the fact Wood had shown a hostile attitude tow ard the com pany and had con- ducted the case in a m anner that did not allow Inland a fa ir and im- partial hearing.
C ourt ruled the national labor re
lations act does not re ąu ire any em- ployer to sign a contract. The opin
ion held that only the process of col- lective b argaining is m andatory.
The ąuestion of signed agree- m ents w as the one param ount issue in the 1937 "little steel” strike. No real ąuestion of w ages, hours or w orkin g conditions w as raised.
W hile the larg er independent steel com panies su ccessfu lly resisted ef- fo rts by the labor board and the SW OC to obtain signed contracts, num erous s m a l l e r m etalw orking com panies, faced w ith threats of strik es by the union and by coercive action by the labor board, signed agreem ents.
Although the appellate court’s de
cision m ay be appealed tD the Su prem e Court, its im m ediate effect m ay be to encourage sm aller com panies to negotiate w ith the unions and hand them a statem ent of policy, but refu se to enter into signed contracts.
“ Th e statu te is barren o f an y ex- pressed lan gu age reąu irin g a signed agreem ent,” the opinion reads, “ end it m ust be held no such agreem ent
late the labor relations in ąuestion, and could h ave divided this pow er between the board and the courts, but under the W agner act as writ- ten, it delegated the pow er to the labor board.
Significance o f these decisions is that reform of the W agner act and the national labor relations board must stem from congress and not from the courts.
is reąuired unless w e a re authorized to read into the term ‘collective b ar
gain in g’ the condition that all agree
ments, not som e, m ust be reduced to w ritin g.”
B ecau se of its conclusion that Wood’s conduct o f the h earing w as hostile and u n fair, the court did not consider two other points:
W hether Inland w as g u ilty of un
fa ir labor practices a s charged by the board, and w hether the board’s action in certifyin g the SW O C as b argainin g agent w as valid.
“ E x a m in e r’s Action U n w arran ted”
"A t the com m encem ent o f the h earing the tria l exam in er adopted the practice o f in terruptin g counsel and w itnesses, and com pelling fu r ther argum en t or statem ents to be
‘off the record’.
“ The court reporter w as forbidden to take notes o f such ‘off the record’
m atter. When back ‘on the record’, the trial exam in er would sum m srize w hat had taken place ‘off the rec
ord’.”
T h is stra n ge procedurę, the court rem arked, continued fo r five days over fu tile objections by Inland counsel. C lim ax cam e when the com pany, h avin g prepared at its own expense and at reąu est of the board, a list of the nam es and oc- cupations of 6 135 em ployes, sought to w ithdraw the list as an aid in preparing its case. No copy had been made. M r. Wood refu sed its with- draw al.
“Th e next m orning Inland brought to the h earin g room its own re
porter fo r the purpose of tak in g the
‘off the record’ proceedings which the exam in er had directed the of- ficial reporter not to take.”
The exam iner, the court relates, ordered Inland’s reporter not to transcribe an y “ off the record” m a
teriał. W hen the reporter, at di- rection of Inland counsel, persisted, the reporter w as ejected by the ex- am iner’s order.
“ It is our opinion,” w rote the court, “ that the act of the exam iper in re fu sin g In lan d’s reąu est to h aye
its own reporter present fo r the purpose of takin g and transcribing the proceeding w as unwarranted and inexcusable . . . A public hear
ing w as in process in a room in a fed eral building w ith a seating ca
pacity o f 300 persons. It is incon- ceivable to us that an y interested p arty should be refu sed the right to h ave present their own reporter fo r the purpose of m akin g a record of everyth in g said during the hear
ing.”
Another attack on the examiner dealt w ith alleged hostile and co- ercive exam ination of witnesses.
“ A fte r reading and studying the instances specifically called to our attention, as well as other portions of the record, w e are forced to the conclusion that the conduct of the exam in er in this respect plainly dis- closes he laid aside a ll semblance of serv in g in a ju dicial capacity. It seem s im possible, within the limi- tations at our disposal, to set forth the lan gu age of the examination of w itnesses by the exam iner from which our conclusion in this respect is reached. To obtain the complete picture reąu ires a reading of the record (m ore than 5000 pages) . . .
“ W e think it can be stated as a gen erał proposition (there may be exceptions) that the exam iner de- voted v e ry little tim e to the exami- nation o f im portant witnesses fa- vorable to the board, while on the other hand, his exam ination of im
portant w itn esses fo r Inland was of g re a t length, indulged in apparently fo r the purpose of im pairing the credit or w eight to be attached to their testim ony.”
“ D iscrim inated A g a in st Witnesses”
C ourt specifically cited examples and in footnotes set forth excerpts from the record. One exjm ple in- cluded in the decision:
“ The w itness Cutting, one of the organ izers of Independent (Steel W orkers Independent Union Inc.), w as interrogated by the examiner fo r m ore than six hours. This ex- am ination covers 130 pages of the record. A t its conclusion, the exam- iner su ggested the witness should be indicted fo r p e rju ry .
“ T he testim ony of this witness w as m ateriał in behalf of the In
dependent, and it is a fa ir inference that the exam in er w as disappointed a fte r his long and arduous exam- ination in that he had been r a th e i
u nsuccessful in im pairing the effec o f the testim ony given by the " 1 - ness . . .
“ T h ere w as called by the board the w itn ess Ja m e s, recording see- re ta ry o f A m algam ated lodge rv°'
1 1 0 1 , and fo llo w in g him, t h e w itn e s s
Form entini, both o f whom testine concerning a strik e r e s o l u t i o n ap pearin g in the lodge record. It pears th at the date of the meetin0
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at which this resolution w as passed, as well as the phraseology of the resolution, was regarded as im por
tant by the board. P etitioner’s coun- sel cross-examined these w itnesses at some length and it w as claim ed the record had been intentionally altered shortly before the h earin g for the express purpose o f bene- fitting the board’s case. A reading of the testimony of these w itnesses convinces us the record had been tampered with and w e think it is a reasonable inference it w as done fo r the purpose charged. Notwithstand- ing this situation the trial exam iner apparently was not concerned w ith the situation—at an y rate he made no effort to discredit th eir testim ony.
His complacent attitude in this re- spect was in strik in g contrast to that exhibited by him with refer- ence to petitioner’s w itnesses . . .
“We would assum e that the w it
nesses for the board w ere encour- aged and perhaps emboldened, while those for the petitioner (Inland) were discouraged, if not actu ally in- timidated.”
Records JReveal P rejud ice The judges decided that much of the examiner’s cross-exam ination was calculated to draw forth im- proper evidence. Num erous exam- ples are ąuoted to show how Wood took advantage of w itnesses’ lim- ited knowledge o f the E n glish lan- guage and twisted ąuestions and re- plies to em barrass them.
Wood, the court declared, “ real- ized the record was subject to at- tack because of his biased conduct and sought to forestall such attack by threatening counsel (for Inland) with exposure or counterattack.”
At the outset of the heai'ing, Wood ruled that witness subpoenas would be issued to Inland only upon wntten application containing speci- ncations of the name of the w it
ness and the naturę of the facts o be proved. The sam e rule w as not applied to the board’s attorneys.
A labor board’s attorney w as ąuoted to the effect the board did n°t apply to itself for subpoenas.
This situation, the court declared, discloses the unfairness of the pro
cedurę employed.”
It also illustrates, in a m inor w-h i'0" ’ What this rec01’d, as a wnoie, convinciHgly discloses— that sinoio nger of imposing upon a n rJL a5 ency the multiple duties of tioner r’ ^Udge’ ^u ry and execu- oortan? 8 ■ PwHaps no m ore im- entitlpH to which fitigants are
s u c h ( f a i r M r i a
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IT> p a i r m e n t , th e ’• b n n g s t h e c ° u r t , a n d in to n n M m S B 'a t i v e b o d i e s a s w e l lthe esteem aSII PUte’ and destro>'s thpv h, and c°nfidence which
e enjoyed so generally.
“ Tim e and experience h ave dem- onstrated th at the public, as well as litigants, w ill tolerate the honest m istakes of those who pass judg- ment, but not the biased acts of those who would deprive litigan ts of a fa ir and im p artial trial.”
The Inland case originated at the time of the 19 37 steel strik e when the labor board filed a com plaint on SW OC charges. H ow N athan W itt, labor board secretary, advised SW OC leaders on the best proced- ure to obtain a labor board ru lin g
—before an y ch arges had been filed
— w as disclosed at h earin gs ot the special house com m ittee investigat- in g the labor act adm inistration (St e e l, Dec. 25, p. 13 ) .
The board issued a cease and de- sist order again st the com pany A p ril 5, 1938, but w ithdrew it af- terw ard because a Sup rem e C ourt decision in another case cast doubts on technical aspects. R e v isin g its procedure, the board issued a sec
ond order Nov. 12 , 1938. C om pany m eanw hile had appealed the case.
T e lls B o a r d IIe ’s “ P r o -C IO ” ; G ets J o b a s T r i a l E x a m in c r
W A S H IN G T O N E3 F U R T H E R evidence of bias and incom petence in the n ation al lab o r relation s a ct’s adm in istration w as unfolded la st w eek by the special house in ve stig a tin g committee, which resum ed h earin gs M onday a fte r a h olid ay recess.
The in vestigato rs produced docu- m ents to prove th at a man, who a board official said called h im self
"yro-C IO ,” w a s in stalled soon there- a fte r as a tria l exam in er in a lab o r dispute.
T he m an is E ugen e P. L a cy, tria l exam in er in the G odchaux S u g a r Co. case in Lou isian a. W hen he ap
plied fo r a job w ith the boai'd, the b o ard ’s a ssista n t sec reta ry reported on his application as fo llo w s:
“ B elieve he is v e ry lim ited in view- point. N ice person ality. H e is all fo r N ew D eal, p ro fesses g re a t sym path y w ith the act. H is hom e town h as a branch o f the Tupelo garm en t sh irt fa c to ry in it, but th at is only in
d u strial enterprise. H e is anti- R an k in , antiH arrison . When asked, he said w ith a gulp th at ‘he is pro- CIO .’ He tried v e ry hard to please m e and say s he has had a ll kinds of practice— civil and crim inal, state and fed era l courts. H e w ill not m ake a tria l exam in er.”
The board hired M r. L acy.
The com m ittee called sev e ra l w it
nesses to show the board relied on you ng and inexperienced attorneys to read and digest evidence fo r it and to d r a ft decisions ordered by the board. One young wom an testi- fied she w a s hired the sam e month she w a s adm itted to law practice.
Com m ittee counsel Edm und M.
Tolan d said th at w itn esses in the A m erican R a d iato r Co. case at Litchfield, 111., had offered undenied testim ony th at a lab o r board field exam in er, J e f f D avis, told w orkm en th ere th at “ o l course you know th at I am w ork in g fo r the CIO and CIO w ill benefit you by back p ay.”
M r. Toland said the board’s records did not show th at D avis had
been disciplined. On th e co n tra ry he still w o rk s fo r the board and h as received pay in creases sińce th e in- cident.
60,000 S U G G E S T IO N S F R O M E M P L O Y E S IN 29 Y E A R S
T h irty-six em ployes o f W esting- house E le c tr:c & M fg. Co., E a s t P ittsburgh, P a., w ere honored a t luncheon recently fo r h avin g m ade in the past six m onths m ore than 780 su ggestions fo r im provem ent o f the com pany’s operations. V ario u s am ounts of m oney w ere aw arded.
N e a rly 60,000 su ggestio n s, o f which appro xim ately 35 per cent w ere accepted, have been contributed by em ployes in the past 29 years.
E M P L O Y E S TO R E C E I V E M O N T H LY “ D IV ID E N D S ”
K e a rn e y & T re c k e r Corp., M ilw au kee, m achinę tool m an u factu rer, h a s in augu rated a m onthly em ploye dividend p ro g ram w h ich c a lls fo r paym en ts based on hours w orked, ra te o f operations, and efficiency.
The first paym en t Ja n . 10 w a s based on D ecem ber operations, and aver- aged 9 p er cent o f s a la rie s and w ages o f 1268 shop and Office em ployes to talin g about $18,000.
F E R R O E N A M E L A D O P T S P R O F IT S H A R IN G P L A N
F erro E n am el Corp., Cleyeland, has adopted a profit in cen tive s y s tem under which a p art o f each $25,- 000 profit in excess of $200,000 fo r dom estic com panies w ill be distrib- uted to em ployes. E m p lo y es’ sh a re s w ill be based on annual sa la rie s and w ill grad e down fro m 4 p er cent fo r executives to 1 'A p er cent fo r clerks. About 15 0 em ployes w ill benefit.
In its fu rn ace and allied en gin eer
ing divisions each $5000 in excess o f $40,000 w ill be divided sim ila rly . Com m issions received o v er a b a s ie ąuota w ill be divided b y field sales.
and service divisions.
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S ta b iliz a tio n , K e yn o te of S c r a p
C o i i Y e i i t i o i i ;
R e c o rd A tteaidancc
P IT T S B U R G H
■ T H A T a com plete refo rm is needed in the b uying attitude of iron and steel scrap consum ers w as em phasized b y Jo sep h E . Jacobson, L u ria Bros. & Co., Pittsb u rgh , and president, In stitu te o f S cra p Iron and Steel Inc., sp eak in g at the in- stitu te's tw elfth annual convention here Ja n . 9 -11.
The convention, larg est in the or- ganization’s history, attracted deal- ers and brokers fro m all p arts of the country. K eynote w a s the need fo r stab ility in m ark etin g scrap.
Sp eak ers pointed out difficulties en- countered in the conduct of trading, especially in tim es o f u n usual de
mand.
M r. Jaco b son declared it has be- come n ecessary fo r the steel indus
try to correct its th in kin g on its method o f buying scrap iron and steel.
“ I t is astonishing to hard-headed businessm en like ourselves that the steel in d ustry feels th at its su p p ly o f the one basie m ateriał over which it exercises no absolute con
tro l a s to price and production can be regulated the sam e as the w ater from a tap —that its flow or stop- page can be started or stopped by the sign in g o f a letter or by the pick- ing up o f a telephone,” said M r.
Jacobson.
Other Supplies Constant T h e sp eak er pointed out th at nec
e ssa ry commodities in the m aking o f steel are w ell know n— coal, ore, lim estone, and scrap. M ajo r steel corporations acąu ire their ore sup
ply through lease or purchase, assur- in g them of sufficient ąuantities of ore fo r y e a rs to come. In addition to unmined resources of ore, huge ac- cum ulations a re held a t low er lake ports fo r shipm ent as operations m ay dictate. Lim estone ą u a rrie s a re acąuired and supplies of this m a
teriał are kept in constant readiness.
Th rough lease or purchase coal su p plies a re assu red fo r y ea rs to come, and only in the case of labor trouble
is the coal su pply affected.
P rices fo r these com modities fiuc- tuate little. W hen it comes to scrap a different situation prevails. The steel in d ustry does not control the sources o f scrap, and a different method m u st be em ployed in obtain- ing it. To insure a g a in st violent fiuctuations, it is n ecessary to pur
chase and accept delivery o f scrap as it becom es available.
M r. Jacob son believes a new deal in the b uyin g of scrap cannot fa il
to con-ect the m arketin g ills experi- enced in the past year. He sug- gested b u yers place reąuirem en ts fo r scrap ii'on in their proper field in th eir fu tu rę economic planning;
to inerease the trin ity of ra w m ate
ria ls—ore, coal and lim estone—to fo u r by adding scrap ; and to real- ize that violent price upheavals can be avoided b y abolishing old m eth
ods and introducing a new method of cla ssify in g and b uyin g scrap so as to keep la rg e r supplies on hand.
“ I firm ly believe th at this w ill b rin g about a new orderliness in our price stru ctu re and the processes of erosion, obsolescence, and w reckage can then be h arnessed so th at scrap iron w ill no lo n ger be the problem ehild of the steel in d ustry,” he said.
Need M ore Teclinical K now ledge S p eakin g on the “ Econom ics and Technology o f Steel S cra p ,” Clyde E . W illiam s, director, B attelle M e
m oriał institute, Colum bus, O., told the delegates th at collection and utilization o f steel scrap is one of the m ost fascin atin g and vital ac- tivities o f m odern industry.
“ T h e scrap in dustry provides a m ost u sefu l service to ou r national econom y b y sa lv a g in g and givin g v alu e to a w aste product,” said M r.
W illiam s. “ It also has accom plished wonders in collecting and c la s sify in g th is w idely scattered m ateriał at a reasonable cost. M any scrap deal- ers h ave sa tisfa cto rily solved the new er problem of m aintaining ą u a li
ty. It is realized it w ill not be a sim ple m atter to get a ll dealers to do so. T he first step tow ard this goal is to acąuaint the scrap m an w ith the technical details of his business.
“ The solution lies in a better u n derstanding of the technology of steel scrap and in better co-opera- tion between the steel and scrap in- dustries. A p ro gram of education to instruct scrap dealers in the ąuali- ties o f scrap and methods o f its proper segregation and disposition should be instituted. Co-operation w ith the steel industry should be effeeted to the end th at the re al ef- fects of im purities be understood, and th at the less desirable scrap would be purchased and intelligent- ly used. The fortunes o f both in- dustries a re pretty much tied to- gether b y the bond of scrap ą u a lity .”
Adoption of a uniform scrap con- ti'act and a code of ti‘ade eustom s fo r the scrap industry w ere proposed by B enjam in 'Schw artz, vice p resi
dent, Schiavone-Bonom o Corp., J e r se y City, N. J., in his paper entitled
“ A U niform Contract fo r the Scrap In d u stry.” In connection with the stabilization o f the industry, Mr.
Sch w artz said it is his understand
ing a program fo r listin g scrap iron on the Commodities exchange now is under consideration.
M r. Sch w artz analyzed the scrap contract and made suggestions which he said should be taken under consideration b y the industry. The proposal w a s to be subm itted to a special com m ittee to study. He di- rected attention to the hold-ups and suspensions of shipm ents which dis- organize m arkets, m ake “ options”
out of valid orders, and is contrary to the v ita l concept that “ time is of the essence” in a scrap contract.
In discussing the possibility of es- tablish in g a “ fu tu re s” m arket for scrap, M r. Sch w artz s a id : “ It is my understanding th at a thorough study is being conducted b y the Commodi
ties exchange o f a plan to establish a fu tu res m ai'ket fo r a few specific grad es o f scrap iron.”
Ja m e s S. E a rle , supervising en
gineer, secondary m etals section, m etal economics division, bureau of m ines, in a paper “ Need fo r Factual D ata on Supplies o f Iron and Steel S crap ,” described the aim s of the bureau of m ines in attempting to collect statistical data. Comment- in g on the b ureau ’s recent compila- tion o f scra p su p p ly data, Mr. Earle said the su rv e y show s 50 per cent o f the ra w m a terials charged into steelm ak in g fu rn aces consisted of scrap item s, w hile 67 per cent of the m ateriał charged to iron furnaces consisted of scrap.
D ata V alu able to Dealers
“ N ot a ll o f this m ateriał was pur
chased or m erchant scrap, but it is significant to note th at purchased or m erchant scrap accounted fo r 23 per cent o f the total ra w materials charged to steelm akin g furnaces, while the sam e m aterials accounted fo r 34 per cent o f th at charged to the vario u s typ es o f iron furnaces, he said. “ Hom e scrap accounted for 25 per cent of the charge to steel furn aces and 33 per cent of the ch arge to iron furn aces. P ig i1'011, which is com petitive with iron and steel scrap, accounted fo r 50 per cent of the total ch arge to stee fu rn aces and 33 per cent of the ch arge to iron fu rn aces.”
The sp eak er said that in so fai as scra p iron d ealers a re concerne . d ata re g a rd in g stocks of iron an steel scra p at consum ers’ plants an d e ale rs’ y a rd s a re o f outstanding valu e to th eir industry.
H e asked fo r co-operation of the scrap iron in d u stry in the gathen » and dissem ination of the v it a ls tistical in form ation which should a
buyer and seller. ,
A n oth er sp eak er w as Waltei - _ Ja n sse n , chief, division of me
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and minerals, departm ent of com merce, who spoke on “ The R o le of Iron and Steel S cra p in Our N a tional Economy.”
"Nobody deliberately ‘m ak es’
scrap,” said Mr. Ja n sse n . “ T h at is to say— an increase in n orm al de
mand or price does not of itse lf bring about the w reck in g o f a ra il
road or the razing o f a building or cause eąuipment to be discarded as being obsolete. N o r does it cause a manufacturer who produces scrap incidental to his m an u factu rin g operations to speed up his opera
tions for the express purpose of producing and sellin g m ore scrap.
Price Is Supply F acto r
“Ultimately, m ore scrap w ill be produced or begin to come into the market in response to the stim ulus of and the satiation of the demand- price rise factor, but it m ay be a matter of weeks, or even months, before this facto r has reached a state of eąuilibrium, or a satu ration point, and gives w a y to the supply- depressed price factor— which rep- resents the beginning of m axim um scrap production under conditions of the new factor and fo r the duration of the functioning of th at fa c to r.”
Since 1900, according to Mr.
Janssen, the amount of steel in use has increased 17 times as fa s t as the nation’s population, now is 650 per cent above the 1900 level. A vera g e life of steel in use has increased during recent years. A t present the useful life of various steel products is 35M; years, he said, again st an estimated 23 years in 1920.
Speaker said that studies of ton- nages and classes of scrap exported do not indicate such exports have
been inim ical to the public interest, eith er as to price or a depletion of nation al resources. H e declared the steel production fa c ilitie s and the dom estic consum ption a re too g re a t fo r this country to h ave to be con
cerned w ith a re a l sh o rtage o f scrap.
D avid F ein b u rg, D avid F ein b u rg Co., M edford, M ass., spoke on “ Cost A ccounting.” H e declared th at each d ealer by keeping an accu rate ac- count o f w h at he buys and w h at he sells can w o rk out his own system o f cost accounting.
E d w in C. B a rrin g e r, executive secreta ry , subm itted his an nu al re port pointing out the vario u s under- ta k in g s of the organization and the p rogress m ade du ring the past year.
Jo sep h E . Jacob son , L u ria B ro s. &
Co., P ittsb u rgh , w a s re-elected p resi
dent. Lou is J . Borinstein, In d ian apolis, w a s re-elected vice president.
Jo sep h A. M oskow itz, Sam uel Sons Iro n & Steel Co. Inc., B rooklyn , N. Y., w a s nam ed secretary. E v e rre tt M ichaels, H ym an-M ichaels Co., Chi
cago, w a s elected treasu rer, and Thom as K elly , B rooklyn , N. Y., con- troller.
T he board o f directors-at-large w a s elected as fo llo w s: H a rry K ien er, St. L o u is; M ax Sch lossberg, C hicago; B en ja m in Sch w artz, N ew Y o rk ; G eorge L . Sturm , M iddletown, O.; D arw in Luntz, Canton, O.; Abe Cohen, Lynchb u rg, V a .; D ave F e in burg, B oston; B arn e y Rubine, B ayonne, N. J . ; M ather M offett, Cin
cinnati.
B altim o re w ill be host to the 194L convention.
M ore th an 1000 m em bers and gu ests attended the vario u s sessions o f the convention, w ith 523 register- ing. Th is w a s the la rg e st official
Little Steel, b u t a Lot of Work
® This h
'Hustrated 0t° be captioned "A n Object Lesson on the Value of Machines."
division S ^ ° °* altimeter pinions m ade by the Kollsman Instrument manufactureUt;rU ^ ^'*rn^ urs*' Y. The steel used cost exactly 80 cents. Its Pinions, however, reąuired 8000 hours of precision work; 24 operations, using 11 machines for each pinion
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registratio n ev er reported fo r a m eeting o f the institute.
A t the an nu al dinner T h u rsd ay evening the ch ief sp eak er w a s Dr.
Solom on B. F reeh o f.
Auto O u tp u t Highest of Any Week in January
a Autom obile production, 111 ,3 3 0 in the week ended Ja n . 13 , w as the highest fo r an y week in Ja n u a r y in the h istory of the industry. It com pares with the preyious Ja n u a ry record, 110,550, in 1929.
A s a result, estim ates o f total production this month a re being revised to 470,000 units, up from 400,000. The record fo r total Ja n u a ry production w as set in 1929 with 422,538.
(Additional statistics relatin g to autom obile production w ill be found on page 36.)
SKF President Heads Business Advisory Council
■ W illiam L . B att, president, S K F In dustries Inc., Philadelphia, last week w as elected chairm an o f the departm ent o f com m erce’s business ad visory council, succeeding W. A.
H arrim an who had been chairm an the past three years. M r. H arrim an w ill rem ain on the council as a mem- ber of the executive committee.
Jo h n D. B ig g e rs, president, Lib- bey-Owens-Ford G lass Co., Toledo, O., and H a rve y Couch, president, A rk an sa s P o w er & L ig h t Co., P in e B luff, A rk., w ere elected vice chair- men.
1939 Best Shipbuilding Year Since World War
BB F o rty seagoin g steel m erchant yessels, of 7400 or m ore gro ss tons, were launched in the United States last year, according to H. G errish Sm ith, president, N ational Council of A m erican Shipbuilders, N ew Y ork. M arkin g the m ost actiye shipbuilding y e a r sińce W orld w a r days, 1939 w as the first y e a r of full-scale activity resu ltin g fro m the new m erchant m arin ę act and the op
eration o f the m aritim e com m ission.
It w as a b ig n avy y e a r as w ell and 16 o f the 38 n aval y essels under construction when the y e a r opened w ere delivered. P riv a te sh ip yard s received contracts fo r 14 additional ships.
S H IP B U IL D IN G D E C L IN E S S L IG H T L Y IN D E C E M B E R
Ships being built to classification of the A m erican B u reau o f Shipping Ja n . 1 totaled 238, a g g re g a tin g 1,167,- 390 gro ss tons, com pared w ith 240 vessels fo r 1,18 1,7 9 5 gro ss tons on Dec. 1 and 149 yessels, 583,830 gro ss tons on Ja n . 1, 1939.
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P R O D U C T IO N District Steel Rates
Reviews Developments In M achinę Tools
S T E E L R A T E D R O P S S L I G I I T L Y ; V A L L E Y B L A S T F U R N A C E S O F F Qi S T E E L W O R K S operations last w eek dropped % -point to 86 per cent. Tw o districts m ade sm ali ad- vances and fo u r registered declines, with six unchanged. A y e a r ago the rate w as 52 per cent; two y ea rs ago 29 per cent.
Youngstow n, O. — Declined 5 points to 80 per cent fo r the week.
R a te at the close w as about 76 per cent, with 57 open hearths and three bessem ers active. Carnegie- Illinois Steel Corp. took off fo u r open hearths and banked two blast furnaces. Y oungstow n Sheet &
Tube Co. suspended three open hearths and Republic Steel Corp.
dropped one. Schedule fo r this week indicates about 74 per cent.
Chicago—Unchanged at 90.5 per cent, sligh t curtailm ent by two m ills being balanced by increases by two others. F o u r m ills now are o perat
ing above theoretical capacity.
Birm ingh am , A la.— S tead y at 94 p er cent w ith 22 open hearths in production.
Central eastern seaboard — Con
tinued at 82 per cent. One mili took off two open hearths but this w as offset by others inereasing out
put.
N ew E n glaiu l—Held at 83 per cent with indications of a sligh t increase this week.
B uffalo— Gained 5 points to 72 per cent as two open hearths w ere added.
P ittsb u rgh —Declined 1 point to 88 per cent on m inor re ad ju st
ments.
W heeling— Rem ained at 89 per cent, highest sińce ea rly December.
D etroit—R o se 3 points to 93 per cent, open hearth production being pushed to meet h eavy demands.
A ctive open hearths num ber 24 of the d istrie fs 26.
St. Lou is—L o st 3.5 points to 75 per cent, three furnaces being off fo r repairs, to be restored at once.
Another producer added one t o nące last week.
Cincinnati— Down 16% points to 74% per cent, although som e plants continued at practical capacity.
C leyeland—M aintained at 85 per cent, w ith little revision indicated this week.
■ N ew En glan d business operated in N ovem ber at the highest level attained in two and a ą u arter years, it w as announced last week by the N ew E n glan d council, B os
ton. Its index of generał business activity stood at 105.5 per cent of the estim ated norm al, com pared with 100.9 per cent in October, and 90.1 per cent in Novem ber, 1938.
P e rc e n ta g e o f In g o t C a p a c ity E n g a g e d in L e a d in g D is tric ts
W e e k S am e
ended w eek
J a n . 13 C h a n g e 1939 193S P itts b u r g h . ... 88 — 1 44 24.5 C h ic a g o ... 90.5 N one 49 26.5 E a s te rn P a. . . 82 N one 34 31
Y o u n g s to w n 80 — 5 55 25
W h e e lin g 89 N one 64 35
C le y e la n d . .. 85 N one 56.5 24 B u ffa lo ... 72 + 5 44 23
B ir m in g h a m 94 N one 77 63
N ew E n g la n d . . 83 N one 75 26 C in c in n a ti . .. . 74.5 — 16.5 65 28
St. L o u is 75 — 3.5 40 21
D e tro it ... 93 + 3 87 52 A v e ra g e . . . . 86 — .5 52 29
Gear Sales Decrease
■ G ear sales in Decem ber w ere 12 per cent below those fo r Novem ber, but 37 per cent la rg e r than in D e
cember, 1938, according to the A m erican G e ar M an u factu rers as- sociation, W ilkinsburg, P a. S ales in 1939 w ere 36 per cent h igh er than in 1938.
A ssociation ’s index fo r Decem ber dropped to 1 1 1 , fro m 12 6 in Novem- ber and 1 4 1 fo r October. The latter w a s high est sińce 1937. A nnual in- dex fo r 1939, based on an average of 12 months, w as 10 3% .
Steel Corp. December Shipm ents Best of Year
N Fin ished steel shipm ents by the United S tate s Steel Corp. in D e
cem ber am ounted to 1,304,284 tons, 33,390 tons, or 2.6 per cent, m ore than 1,270,894 tons in N ovem ber.
D ecem ber’s total w a s 610,080 tons gre a te r than 694,204 tons shipped in the corresponding month, 1938, and w a s the high est sińce A pril, 1937, with 1,343,644 tons.
F o r 1939, shipm ents befo re year- end adju stm en t totaled 10,652,150 tons, com pared w ith 6,655,749 tons a fte r adjustm en ts in 1938.
U. S. ST EEL CORP. SHIPM EN TS (Inter-company shipments not included)
(Tons)
1939 193S 1937 1936
Jan. 7S9.305 518,322 1,149,918 721,414 Feb. 677,994 474,723 1,133,724 676,315 March 767,910 572,199 1,414,399 783,552 April 701,459 501,972 1,343,644 979,907 May 723,165 465.0S1 1,304,039 984,097 June 733,433 478,057 1,268,550 886,065 July 676,309 441,570 1.1S6.752 950,851 Aug. 803,822 55S.634 1,107,858 S23.703 Sept. 9S5.050 577,666 1,047,962 961,803 Oct. 1.21S.545 663,2S7 792,310 1,007,417 Nov. 1,270,S94 679,653 5S7.241 8S2.643 Dec. 1,304,284 694.204 4S9.070 1,067,365
Adj.* J30,3S1 t77,113 t40,S59
Ttl. 10,652,150 6,655,749 12,748,354 10,784,273
•Yearly adjustment. tDeduction. tlncrease
B Guy Hubbard, m achinę tool edi
tor, St e e l, addressed mem bers of the K a n sa s C ity section, American Society of M echanical Engineers, at U n iversity club, K a n sa s City, Mo., la st F rid a y evening. Th is dinner m eeting w a s attended b y a large num ber o f m an u factu rin g execu- tives and production engineers. Mr.
H ubbard’s subject w a s “ Machinę Tools of T o d ay.”
M an y o f those present had planned to attend the national ma
chinę tool show w hich w as to have been held in C leveland in October.
B ecau se o f th eir keen interest in the latest m etalw o rkin g eąuipment, M r. H ubbard w a s called upon to g iv e his im pressions o f w hat they m ight h ave seen in Cleyeland if the show had not been canceled.
On the b asis o f his visits to more than 100 m achinę tool building es- tablishm ents during the past year, which reąu ired seve ra l thousand m iles o f tra vel, the speaker re- view ed som e of the m ost significant developm ents in m achines and tools, in term s of w h at they m ean to the user. T he fo rm a l paper, which was illu strated w ith slides, w as followed b y a ąuestion and discussion period.
Tin O u tp u t, Use and Stocks in Sharp Gain
O W orld tin production, averaging 10.800 tons p er month fo r the first eight m onths in 1939, increased to 23.800 tons in Septem ber and to 24,- 800 tons in October, w ith indications o f som ew hat sm a lle r output in No- vem ber, according to the Interna
tional Tin R esearch and Develop- ment council, The H ague.
D eliveries in Septem ber were IV 272 tons, in October 20,050 tons and in N o vem b er 13,500 tons, compared w ith an a v e ra g e o f 11,959 tons for the first eight m onths. World appai'- ent tin consum ption averaged 12,800 tons fo r eigh t months, decreased to 11,3 0 0 tons in Septem ber and re- covered to 13,400 tons in Octobei and 17,500 tons in November.
Tin stocks, including tin in oie and interm ediate products, de
creased b y 14,800 tons to 34,faw tons at the end o f A ugust and 1111 fo llo w in g th ree months increased ) 16,100 tons to 50,700 tons.
■ N o decision has been reached by the United States Steel Corp.
relative to constructing an ir and steel w o rk s in Brazil. Sev of the corporation’s technical returned to the United States last y e a r a fte r studying the S1 tion in B raz il and their repoit is in the hands o f executives.
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M E N o f M D lf S T R Y
H DAVID W. TH O M AS has been appointed m anager of saJes. t;n mili products, Jones & L au gh lin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh. He has been identified with the steel industry sińce 1913 when he started in the accounting department of A m erican Sheet & Tin Plate Co. at P ittsburgh.
In 1917 he joined the o peratin g de
partment of Bethlehem Steel Co. at Sparrows Point, Md., and fo llow in g service in the World w a r returned to Bethlehem, advancing through van'ous positions in the operating, order, Schedule and sales depart- ments. His predecessor, P hilip Schaefer, will be special representa- tive, with duties to be assigned.
Henry J. M cAdams has become associated with the N ew Y o rk dis
trict sales staff of Jon es & L a u g h lin, and will specialize in the sale of oil country tubular goods. He formerly was N ew Y o rk m anager, Tokheim Oil Tank & Pum p Co. sińce 1934.
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C. H. McCollam, m etallurgist, Steel & Tube division, Tim ken Roll- er Bearing Co., Canton, O., has been appointed assistant director of steel sales.
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R- A. Cannon, heretofore vice president in charge of casting sales, has been appointed vice president in charge of sales, Birdsboro Steel Foundry & Machinę Co., Birdsboro, Pa.
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Howard A. Flogaus, associated
"ith J. G. Brill Co., N ew Y ork, the past year as assistant to v;ce presi
dent, has been appointed chief en
gineer.
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W. H. Melaney, sales m anager, National Roli & Foundry Co., Avonmore, Pa., has retired a fte r 60 jears active service in the steel in dustry.
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George c. Brainai'd, president, tm, ^ FireProofing Co., Youngs- m=>T’ ™ ^as ^een re_elected chair- h ’ veland Fed eral R eserve bank for 1940.
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to^ari^ó )Vi.lder> form erly assistant Illinok qt1S\ng^ manae er’ Carnegie- joined Ket u P" P ittsburgh, has
£ P m lChu™ ' MacLeod & Grove tive! u lSh, as account execu-
President ?n W^lllarns' f °rm e rly vice and m a n u f a c t u S eA °f purchasinS
& Cable Cn n A m encan Chain has been an ’ Bridgeport, Conn., ager John f ^ gen erał man-
’ J ° hn A- Roebling’s Sons Co., January i 5) 1940
A m erican Chain & Cable. A fte r ac- ąuisition of S tan d ard Chain Co. in 19 16 he w as appointed ge n era ł pur- chasing agent of a ll the com pany’s p lan ts; in 1928 becam e gen erał pro
duction m an ag er; w a s m ade a di
rector two y ea rs la te r and in 1936, vice president in ch arge o f a ll manu- factu rin g operations.
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H. L . Joseph H um phrey has been made advertisin g m anager, Ex-Cell- O Corp., D etroit. He succeeds Tom Moule, who is now w ith Seiler, W olfe & A ssociates, Detroit.
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G eorge F . B au er h as resigned as secretary, expo rt com m ittee, A uto
mobile M an u factu rers association, to estab lish offices in N ew Y o rk as intornational trade counselor.
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H. Kenneth B rig g s, who resigned recen tly as m etallu rgist, W estern F o u n d fy Co., Chicago, is now a mem- ber o f the sales sta ff of M iller & Co., Chicago, b roker o f pig irons, alloys and coke.
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Colm an C u rtiss J r . h as been named assistan t to the gen erał sales m an ager, B u ffalo B o lt Co., N orth Tonaw anda, N. Y . A gra d u a te of Y a le u n iversity, he joined B u ffalo B o lt in 1934.
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H ow ard W. T e ter has been ap pointed district m an ager, Edison S to rag e B a tte ry Su p ply Co., B o s
ton, succeeding P. F . Donovan, who has been granted leave of absence due to ill health.
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R a y C. D uB ru cą, associated w ith the w oodw orking m ach in ery in
d u stry o ver 20 yea rs, h as been elected vice president in ch arge of sales, C rescent M achinę Co., Lee- tonia, O., m an u factu rer of wood
w ork in g m achinery.
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Ralph J . Staym an , fo rm erly m an a g e r o f w arehouses, Jo n e s & L a u g h lin Steel Corp., P ittsb u rgh , and prior to that w ith Jo sep h T. R y e rso n &
Sons Inc., Chicago, has become a s
sociated w ith P ittsb u rgh B rid g e &
Iron W orks, P ittsb urgh , as m an
a g er o f w arehouse departm ent.
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H. W. Collinson, fo r m an y y e a rs C leveland district sale s m an ager, Carborundum Co., N ia g a ra F a lls, N. Y., has been tra n sfe rred to Chi
cago as district sales m an ager. He succeeds F . E. G ridley, w ho h as been gran ted an extended leave o f ab
sence. E . F . K on ker, a m em ber o f the eom pany’s sales staff, succeeds M r.
Collinson as district sales m a n ag er 27 D avid W. Thomas
Henry J . M cAdam s
C. G. W illia m s
Trenton, N. J., effective M arch 1.
F o llo w in g grad uation fro m Sheffield Scientific school, Y a le un iversity, he w a s em ployed by T e rry S team T u r
binę Co., H artfo rd , Conn. In Ja n u ary, 19 13 , he w a s m ade purchasing agen t o f the Oneida, N. Y., plant of
