Show I I Steel Is Impeded By Lab Labor r Troubles I NEW YORK Oct 4 P C Iron iP Iron Age said today that labor troubles In the plants of both steel teel makers and consumers arc now threatening to impede progress of the industry Coming at a time when steel companies companies com corn panics were just beginning to function fuse fuse- unction unc- unc tion satisfactorily under the commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial provisions of the code stated the review the rapid increase in strikes throughout the he metal working industry indus try is particularly disheartening The steel operating ratio this week is 42 per cent of capacity a rise of one point but Iron Age said the larger consuming industries are generally generally gen gen- curtailing their requirements and give promise of at little sustained Improvement in the next two months |