[PRCo] Re: Transfers // Strike // 1957

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Definitely the strike had a major impact.  Users stockpiled product
beforehand, but didn't expect almost four months.

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Transfers // Strike // 1957


On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, John Swindler wrote:

>
>
> Wasn't there a downturn in the steel industry in 1958/59?????  Did it have
> anything to do with auto production???

116 day steel strike in 1959. July, i think, it started

This matters to me as I am researching something which is going to involve
going over newspapers from when Oliver Iron & Steel closed.