LABOR: Steel Adventure

Steel is the great, historic U. S. industry that Labor has never been able to organize. For the past eight months two factions within the American Federation of Labor—President William Green's conservative craft unionists and United Mine Worker John Llewellyn Lewis' progressive industrial unionists—have been at deadlock over the question of Labor's future form of organization, and Labor's future leadership. It was agreed that the man who maneuvered himself into position for the first dash over Steel's frontier would have a heavy advantage over his opponent, the chance of tapping the...

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