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Upsurge
workers were able to organize strikes with unions -
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President Truman's movement
Between these 10 years, they had five work stoppages in the steel industry, 5 different cases of people striking and not working. President Truman decided that he would sieze the steel mills and factories and tried to get them going again. -
Taft-Harvey Act
workers were now able to organze strikes with unions, passed to presidential veto and went through congress, taking union rights to certain extents -
Strike
workers walked off the nation's steel mills, more than 500,000 -
The Start
It was a 116 day strike, a record until strike of 86
America reprted high profit, pushed for wage increase and it was turned down -
Continued
Wanted to eliminate section 2B contract, limited management's ability to change number of workers assigned to a task and wouldn't let new rules and technology come into the company. Basically they thought it would reduce competition between steel companies. -
Court's decsions
Ordered workers back to work from a cool-off period of 80 days, led to the union strikes -
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Threat
Japan threatened the U.S. Steel Industry, which made union struggles inside the companies. Japan was the biggest struggle with steel companies in the U.S.