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Show Steel Strike 'Depression' Is Noted in Most Businesses ' s vi shut-down almost immediately and other business seemed to dwindle a week or two before the strike as workmen began to curtail their spending. Total workers at Ironton and Geneva was way under a thousand with an estimated 5000 'laid off from both plants. Consolidated Western plant had approximately 100 men at work with 350 idle as V When Junior ask dad for money tnbuv fireworks on the Fourth of ! T,,iv'lio was confronted with a 1 fi.t ' refusal and the remark, 'non't von know there is a -teel strike on?" And so the steel , rike" in its fourth day Wednesday Wednes-day brought a feeling of depression to many families throughout sorinfrvilie and Utah county. Merchants felt the results of the a result of the strike. Geneva and Ironton are tied in with the national steel negotiations. negotia-tions. Consolidated had a locally negotiated contract which expired Saturday night and the plant was struck along with the other two larger plants by the United Steel-workers Steel-workers of America CIO which has the bargaining agency for all three plants. ,. ! Some workmen ' were confident ! government intervention or a set-; set-; tlement otherwise ,would be forthcoming forth-coming in the near future while others wagered the strike would , be longer than the previous one t which held out 53 days. I Some employees were seeking ! work on farms and construction. A few were on vacation but the majority were just standing by with hope that the dispute would be settled. Union officials are allowing a "bare minimum" of workmen at each of the plants just enough men to avoid any damage. Only a few pickets are on hand at the plants. Noticeable throughout the county coun-ty is the decrease in traffic especially es-pecially during shift-change time, when workmen were traveling to and from work. Closed by Strike ... Only a small group of key men continue to work at the steel plants to avoid damage while nearly 5000 standby for word to re':urn to work. |