[PRCo] Re: Demise of Steel industry in Pittsburgh

[robert simpson]

John;
   
  I remember working in Munhall in 1960, and frequently crossed the Homestead Bridge.  I couldn't help but notice a new building being erected directly across the street from the U. S. Steel Homstead plant and each steel girder was prominently marked "Made in Japan".  How, I wondered, could they manufacture steel in Japan, ship it to America, and transport it cross-country for less than simply buying it from across the street?  I sensed a feeling of doom for our once thriving steel industry.  The steel industry has gone the same route as our beloved streetcars and exist only in our memories.
   
  Robert Simpson
  from Krazy California
   
  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.