The American Iron and Steel tnstitute announced, "The steel indus {ry will oppose any attempt to compel ils employees to Join a union oF Day tribute for the Tight to work." Then like a thunderbolt from a clear sky came the announcement that
lad come to an agreement. Lewis and the bigest steel company prophecy of Isiah could not have been here dramatically fulotied than by this decision of "the crouching tion in the pathway of labour" as Lewis once allied the United Stales Slecl Corporation, The agreement look everybody 30 much by surprise that fantastic tales were invented to account for it. The most sensational was that Mrs. Myron Taylor had spied John Lewis in the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel at Washington and had announced that she must meet "that fascinating looking man." An introduction took place and the two found they had so much common that a quarrel between her husband and Lewis became un-
"Actually the settlement represented the triumph of common sense. Steel was booming and the business of the sleet companies Was to make money.
they could charge more for sted jand maintain or even increase their profits despite wage increases and Shortened hours they might as well do 50,
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