Posted on 09/19/2017 8:06:04 PM PDT by MilesVeritatis
CAMPBELL, Ohio — Forty years ago, on Sept. 19, thousands of men walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River before the early shift.
Like every fall morning, they were armed with lunch pails and hard hats; the only worry on their minds was the upcoming Pittsburgh Steelers game on “Monday Night Football.” The only arguing you heard was whether quarterback Terry Bradshaw had fully recovered from the dramatic hit he took from a Cleveland Browns player the season before.
It was just before 7 a.m., and the fog that had settled over the river was beginning to lift. As the sun began to streak through the mist, the men made their way into the labyrinth of buildings where they worked.
In the next hour, their lives would change forever.
From then on, this date in 1977 would be known as Black Monday in the Steel Valley, which stretches from Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio eastward toward Pittsburgh. It is the date when Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 workers in one day.
The bleeding never stopped.
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40 years ago an average person/family had a mortgage, phone, electric and maybe a car payment. That was it. Now look...
Just what progressives want.
Did Hillary talk to them at that time like she did the coal miners last year?
Unions suck. Not having a domestic steel industry sucks even more.
That is what I say is the difference today versus the olden days. Everything is $40/month.
Interesting.
China produced 803 million tons of steel last year. Mostly at state-owned factories. (gigantic communist country)
America produced 79 million.
China produced 53% of the steel, in the entire world.
Sorry, that was 50.3 percent.
Not 53 percent. Excuse me.
$24,772.00 in September, 1977 (when the layoff in question occurred) would be
$99,055
now.
So in a general war who can build the most ships and tanks?
Bump
Yep.
In the next big war, America and the West will need that steel capacity.
But the future enemy bought up the politicians, businessmen and unions so that it was offshored to them.
My new cellphone rate is $40/month. My TV including cable is $100/month for a year. And that’s at my new improved reduced rates. Plus Netflix @12/month
$152/month that a few decades ago I wouldn’t be spending but now seems it would be impossible to live without these.
Selling the public on that “service industry” future was ridiculous. I couldn’t believe they snookered the folks into believing it. Common sense would say such an idea was never credible.
Are the American citizens born to be servants to each other with no prospects to achieve more? No dreams there!
ping
I give Salena Zito credit, but she is also part of a larger problem with journalism. Someone made the decision to pull the plug on those jobs. What is his name? Where is he today?
No fan of unions, but Victor Posner was every bit a dirtball as the union thugs.
Name names.
I grew up in Youngstown. During their peak year, '41 I think, the Youngstown area put out 90 million tons.
Buying American is good until the American company pulls a GM and starts producing awful garbage. What then?
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