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    "ocrText": "-2-\nan agreement between the 6 companies to the effect that none of the companies\nwould be permitted to negotiate an agreement with the Union unless this agreement\nwas satisfactory to each one of the other companies entering into the agreement.\nMeetings with the representatives of the 6 companies which had entered into\nthis agreement failed to produce a settlement in the meetings which were called\nby the companies for March 31 and in subsequent meetings, after the President had\nseized the industry, between April 9 and April 14. Additional joint meetings were\nheld in the city of Washington on May 3 and 4, 1952 and on June 5 through June 9,\n1952. 't each of these meetings the 6 major producers who had entered into this\nagreement refused to bargein with the Union except on the premise that any agree-\nment reached would have to be satisfactory to each one of the 6 companies. Since\nno agreement satisfactory to each of the 6 companies was reached, there was no\nTRUMAN\nagreement with any one of these companies.\nJerms ~NATIONAL RECORDS\nARCHIVES &\nADMING\nIn the bargaining sessions which took place in Washington, D.C. between\n<<\nGOVERNIT\nJune 5 and June 9, it was additionally made clear to the Union that the representa-\ntives of the 6 companies would not reach agreement with the Union on any issue in\ndispute unless other companies, most of whose employees are not represented by the\nUnion, consented to such agreement. These other companies are the Armco Steel\nCompany and the National Steel Corporation (whose principal subsidiary, the Weirton\nSteel Company, is not organized by the United Steelworkers of America).\nThe effect of this agreement between the 6 companies whose employees are\nrepresented by the Union and the 2 companies, most of whose employees are not\nrepresented by the Union, has been to prevent any one of those companies from\nmeeting with the Union to determine whether terms of settlement agreeable to the\nUnion and the particular company can be negotiated in collective bargaining, as\nrequired by the NLRA as amended. :lthough the Union participated in the joint\ncollective bargaining sessions set up by the companies in an effort to reach an\nagreement with the companies, it did so without knowledge of the conspiracy\nherein set forth. The Union has at all times been prepared to meet with the\nrepresentatives of any one of said companies and to reach and put into effect any\nagreement which is mutually satisfactory to the company and the Union. The purpos€\nof the conspiracy between the companies is to prevent this from happening.\nMeetings between representatives of the companies engaged in this conspiracy\nhave taken place, in New York City as recently as June 20, 1952, and in Cleveland,\nas recently as July 2, 1952. These meetings took place in pursuance of the\nconspiracy and at these mestings the companies participating in the conspiracy"
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