Letter to President Harry S. Truman from Robert A. Lovett with Related Material
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OCR Page 1 of 14THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON
JUN 25 1952
Dear Mr. Prosident:
Pursuant to your memorandum of June 10, we immedia tely took
steps to make maximum use of the production capacity of that portion
of the steel industry which is not affected by the current strike.
In addition, a series of meetings has been held to consider ways
and means of carrying out the joint pledge of the union and the
companies, given at the time negotiations were broken off on
June 9, to "cooperate in assuring production of military requirements
essential to our forces engaged in combating communist aggressors."
Those meetings, called by Dr. Steelman, have been attended by
representatives of the National Production Authority, the steel
companies and the union, as well as of the Department of Defense,
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and have resulted in certain understandings pursuant to which it
is anticipated that some limited part of our most critical steel
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requirements will be met.
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Those understandings relate principally to the removal of
finished steel from strike-bound plants and warehouses. The union
has agreed that finished steel bearing CMP allotment symbols "A",
"B", "C" and "E" may be removed at onee from any of the facilities
included on a list which we have furnished to the union. (That list
accounts for plants whose inventory is probably about 70 to 80% of such
finished steel. The remainder of the closed plants will be handled, as
identified, on a case-by=case basis with the union.)
In addition, the union has agreed to the removal of finished steel
required for the production of machine tools (the "z-2" category) and
for the production of key components (the "B-5" category), and has
agreed to provide the manpower necessary to inventory all unfinished
and semi-finished steel material in strike-bound plants with a view
to converting such material to the production of items in the "A",
"B", "c" and "E" categories.
The union has taken the position that, until finished steel has
been removed or inventoried under the plan described above, it is not
appropriate to consider the resumption of production, even on a limited
basis, in any of the plants affected by the strike. This means that
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