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Show 'CLOSED SHOP JOBS GET NO : . STEEUS RULE President of Bethlehem Com-; pany Said Policy Was to Fight Union Labor NEW YORK. Dec. 1G. Eugene G. Grace, president of tho Bethlehem Steel corporation, took the stjyul this afternoon In New York's "building trust" Inquiry to reply to chargea that his concern was sponsoring the "open shop" by withholding steel from builders build-ers employing union labor. Mr. Graco told the Joint legislative committee conducting tho Investigation that It was the policy of tho Bethlehem Bethle-hem Steel company not to aoll any fabricated fab-ricated steel unless It was to bo erected under "open shop" conditions. Mr. Grace asserted, however, that although his corporation was a member mem-ber of tho National Steel Fabricators' association, it had acted Independently of tho association's "open shop" program. |