Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1945 — Page 9

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Steel Prices were frozen by OPA at Pre-War lovels—

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Toray; because of government-controlled prices and high

* costs, many steel products are being sold at a loss. That

|is why the steel industry cannot now pay higher wages. -

been made by the United Steelworkers of America-CIO. In

| presenting this demand, Philip Murray served notice that this

was not. subject to. “dickering or compromise.” To

in the steel industry. Any general stoppage of ‘steel produc-

{tion would be a calamitous blow to reconversion.

Increased | wages cannot be paid out of thin air. Proceeds

|from sales of steel provide the only fund out of which wages

can be paid. Today the ceiling prices imposed by OPA do not provide a sufficient return to pay current costs of steel operations, let alone any increase in wages, )

: Present OPA prices for steel produets are generally

less than steel prices in 1937. However, labor and other costs

in steel industry have gone up tremendously. These everiting costs have squeezed out virtually all of the profit originally contained in pre-war steel prices. |

Accordingly, today steel producers are entitled to sub-

"A demand for a general wage increase’of $2 a day has .

|enforee this demand, strike votes are being taken this month

||stantial increases in these ceiling prices. Many months ago _ 1 they asked OPA for such price relief. OPA has not acted.

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Answer to present wage demands depends on steel price policy of OPA.

Collective bargaining conferences between steel producers and the Union have. already been-held. Nothing can be ae complished toward negotiating any wage increase until OPA performs its statutory duty. Under act of Congress; steel pro- =

ducers are éntitled to ceiling prices which yield on each product

a profit equivalent to that of the base period, established by OPA as 1936-1939. Ty Be

_ Wages in the steel industry sok teed i be farted ad * vanced to keep pace with increases in the cost of living since

January, 1941. Increases in average straight time hourly earn:

ings in the steel industry (without overtime) between January 1941, and August, 1945, rose 34 per cent, or more than the ade vance during the same period in the U. S. Department of Labor index of the cost. of living, :

Today steel workers rank among the highest paid wage earners in American industry. In August 1945, average straight time pay for steel workers was $1.15 an hour, without - counting overtime pay. The end of the war has not eliminated all overtime in the steel industry, and a considerable period of time may elapse before the industry fully returns to a normal 40-hour work week. a.

Until OPA authorizes fair prices, nothing can be settled through collective bar .

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