Medford mail tribune., December 02, 1959, Image 21

IBusfOing Steel IHill Apparently Masks EDiscord in Campaign on Work Rules
Editor's note: T"PI renorter Wil
11am J. Eaton toured the riant
Fairies works of U.S. Steel Corp.
at Morrisville, Pa., to get an on-the-spot
report on how union and
management regard the work rules
Issue, a major roadblock to set
tlement of the steel dispute.
Br WILLIAM J. EATON
Morrisville, Pa. - CPD -Smoke
curled upward today
from eight of nine open
hearth furnace stacks at the
mammoth steel plant here.
It symbolized the indus
try's surprising return to
near - capacity production
three weeks after a 116-day
strike was halted by a Taft
Hartley injunction.
U.S. Steel officials-credited
members of the United Steel
workers Union with full co
operation in the rapid come
back at the giant Fairless
works.
But labor-management har
mony in reopening this show
case plant, newest in the na
tion, apparently masks con
tinuing discord over the com
pany's campaign to revise lo
cal work rules.
Union resistance to this
drive on the national level
may lead to a resumption of
the strike at Fairless and
other steel plants when the
injunction expires Jan. 26.
Talks Freely of Production
Kermit L. Johannsen, 51-
year-old general superintend
ent of the Fairless works,
talked freely about produc
tion figures but declined to be
specific on the thorny work
rules issue.
He proudly recalled that
after the Supreme Court up
held the back-to-work order
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on Nov. 7, the first steel made
by his firm was produced at
Fairless -at 6:40 a.m. the fol
lowing day. The plant has
been operating at 90 to 95 per
cent of its 2,400,000 ton-a-year
capacity since Nov. 20,
Johannsen said.
This was in sharp contrast
to predictions from many in
dustry sources that it would
take a month or more to get
back to pre-strike levels of
output. The industry now is
running at about 88 per cent
of capacity,
"Our employees gave us an
orderly shutdown when the
strike began and an honest-to-goodness
startup when it
was halted," he noted.
Refuses to Specify Changes
Johannsen, however, refus
ed to specify what changes he
wants to make to improve ef
ficiency at the huge Fairless
plant that now are barred
under the controversial 2-B
clause in the Steelworkers'
contract.
The clause permits man
agement to change the size of
crews and other work rules if
it introduces new machinery.
But it prohibits revision 'of
established practices unless
the company can show the
conditions which gave rise to
those practices have changed.
Russell Thompson, presi
dent of the 5,000 -member
Steelworkers' local at the
plant, is convinced that union
members would lose hard
won gains if 2-B was dropped.
Thompson, 47, is classified
as a rigger, or an expert in
moving machinery and other
loads within the plant. Thomp
son said he might be required
to do painters' and pipefitters'
work in addition to his spec
ialty, rigging, if the clause
were eliminated.
Fear Abolition of 2-B
"Our deep fear is that abol
ition of 2-B would give man
agement a weapon and when
thev saw the power they had
-watch out:" Thompson said.
Both Johannsen and Thomp
son agreed that Fairless did
not have as big a problem as
other steel plants since it's a
baby in the industry - seven
years old.
Because of this, there are
fewer long - established work
Dractices and the company
solved many crew-size prob
lems by setting up a broad in
centive program when it open
ed this plant. Johannsen said
92 per cent of the production
and maintenance force is on
piecework rates.
The union claims, however,
that 2-B will become more im
portant as time goes by. It
recently won a grievance at
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Petersburg, Va. - Dinwiddie
County Deputy Arthur Gates
testified at a speeding trial
that patience has its rewards.
Gates had been driving
along a slippery highway near
here when a car zipped past
him. It was too dangerous to
attempt pursuit, he said. "Be
sides I figured the driver
would crack up at that speed."
Only a few miles later, his
prediction was borne out. He
found the offending driver
and car in a ditch alongside
the highway. i
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Starlings Disrupt
Roseburg Service
Roseburg -(UPD- Swarms of
starlings resulted in disrup
tion of some telephone ser
vice near here Tuesday.
A spokesman for the tele
phone company said the birds
in large numbers had been
alighting on power lines in
the Roberts Creek area south
of here. There are so many of
the birds that the power lines
have been sagging into tele
phone lines, knocked out fus
es, or protectors.
About 30 telephones in the
area were out.
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By Lynn M. Watkins
How Does Tree-Frog Do It?
Suction Cups, of Course
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absorbers on his stomach;
green pigment in his skin; a
light in his eyes, and a song
in his heart. For a little guy
with three fingers on each
hand and foot, he can do some
remarkable stunts in tree
climbing or even resting on a
perpendicular surface.
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cups. These little, highly de
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little fellow is equipped, ad
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rough, smooth, irregular or a
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tree-frog lives mostly in trees.
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With it the tree-frogs resumed
their full cry hilariously
"singing in the rain."
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Tribune Syndicate, 1959)
Man Hit by Own
Car in Driveway
Falls City, Neb. A Falls
City man was hit by his own
car in his own driveway.-
Richard Warner was treated
for a fractured leg. He stopped
the car next to his house and
got out too close to the garage
door.
In slamming the door sharp
ly, Warner startled his dog,
Prince, who was curled up in
the front seat.
The dog jumped and
knocked the gearshift into
Drive."
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