For the third time, the steel strike was postponed. At President Truman's urgent request, United Steelworkers' President Philip Murray agreed to a six-day extension of the strike deadline. Then, for the first time since July, the steel companies sat down with labor negotiators for a last try at company-by-company bargaining.
All of the palaver was beginning to make some of the steelworkers a little restive. At one U.S. steel subsidiary and two small independent plants, 5,300 workers walked out on wildcat strikes. Explained one local unionist: "We've built the boys up and they're ready to go. You just can't keep...
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