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    "ocrText": "-3-\nexamined various proposals which had been tentatively agreed upon between the\nUnion and individual companies and resolved that since those proposals were not\nacceptable to each one of the conspiring companies, none of the companies would be\npermitted to agree to such proposals with the Union, even though such proposals\nwere acceptable to such individual companies.\nIn addition to the conspiracy among the companies which are parties to this\nagreement to prevent collective bargaining between the conspiring companies and\nthe Union, the companies have further combined and conspired to prevent other\ncompanies, which are not parties to this conspiracy, from bargaining with the Union.\nThe companies party to the conspiracy control the major portion of steel production\nin the United States. They are the only producers of certain materials used by\nother smaller companies in the industry and they compete with these other companies\nin the sale of steel products. By virtue of their dominant position in the industry\nand their control over essential materials the leading companies can conduct economic\nwarfare against the smaller companies. And they have used the threat of such\nTRUMAN\nwarfare to prevent any of the smaller companies from engaging in collective\nbargaining with the Union in an effort to settle the current dispute.\nE \"NATIONAL ARCHIVESA ADMIN.\" RECORDS\nGOVERNI\nThe result of the conspiracy between the major steel companies has been,\ntherefore, not only to prevent each one of those companies from engaging in\ncollective bargaining with the representatives of the Union, but also to prevent\nother smaller companies, not party to the conspiracy, from settling the current\ndispute with the Union. Thus, there are smaller companies in the industry in\nwhich the differences as to a new contract now existing between the 6 major\ncompanies and the Union do not exist. In these cases both the Union and the\ncompanies are in agreement as to the terms of a new contract. The companies,\nhowever, have been economically coerced by the larger companies into refusing to\nsettle the current strike with the Union on such terms."
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