Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Vic Housholder with Attachments and Related Notes
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MR. HOPKINS
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MAY 28 1952
Steel Stake
MAY 2 6 1952
Dear Vic:
Thanks for your letter of May 2 about the steel
controversy. You say "the only point that I take particular
issue with your side on is the one in which the board ordered
that 'all laborers in the steel industry must join the C. I.O. 11
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and you ask "are the press and radio reports correct on this?"
The press has been busy printing the paid propaganda ads of the
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steel companies and a lot of the country's newspapers haven't
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given anything like the full story on the steel controversy.
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It's not surprising, therefore, that many people are
confused on this union shop issue, as well as on the more impor-
tant facts on the profits of the steel industry. Many of the
stiel Stackey,
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letters sent in to me reveal a lot of misconceptions and confusion.
I am enclosing a copy of a letter which I sent in response to
Mr. C. S. Jones. He had written to me and asked about the "closed
4/27/02
shop" issue as well as other issues. That letter was made public
to give the American people additional information on the real
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issues in this case. I think you will agree that I said some
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pretty important things in that letter, but only a few newspapers
in the country printed it in full or even summarized its main
points for their readers.
In brief, what the Wage Stabilization Board said was
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that the union shop was definitely an issue in dispute, that the
dispute couldn't be solved without somehow disposing of this issue,
and that the parties should go back and negotiate the form of
union shop. That is as far as the Board went. The Board never
recommended a "closed shop"; it never even recommended any particu-
lar form of union shop, such as maintenance of membership. The
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Board just said the parties ought to negotiate some kind of a union
shop arrangement, and there are at least half a dozen varieties
of union shop arrangement possible.
I don't think the union shop issue is the real bar to
settlement in the steel dispute. It's money. The big issue is
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a price increase. The companies are still refusing to settle
the dispute unless they have a prior commitment on a price increase
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bofy to Mr Enargon
5/26
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