STEEL: Definite Steps

The steel industry, following its promise to President Harding that the twelve-hour day will be abolished (TIME, July 16), is settling down to the work of putting that promise into effect. During the past two weeks, the U. S. Steel Corporation, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and others have had conferences and taken steps in that direction.

The foremost question was the adjustment of wages. Hitherto unskilled labor has been receiving 40¢. an hour at the steel mills—$4.80 for a twelve-hour day. On a three-shift instead of a two-shift system, pay would...

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