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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I guess I'm doing it wrong. I never got a free car, let alone aid to take one home. Although I do think GM owes my grandkids a pickup truck, since they will be paying for one. Too bad it would be a Chevy.
A side effect of capitalism is that we believe being able to buy the cheapest product is a result of reasonable market forces driving down prices.
...except it is not - but the fault isn’t with capitalism, it’s with an uneven playing field. Our economy could accelerate to “light speed” if we all spent a few bucks more on an item if it were built here.
It’s a concept that is very hard to deliver to poor people, “spend more and you’ll be better off”. If you pay more for a coffee mug that is made here vs. in China, it’s just a buck...but it means a great deal to the economics of where it is made, it encourages making it here. Once there’s more jobs, too many in fact, wages will rise.
Too many politicians have been too willing to sell out the American people, making deals that benefit only the corporations, when we could have an environment that can benefit everyone. Deals that just make products cheaper (via cheap foreign labor) are short term corporate gains that don’t help the working class. It may help the stock market in the short term but hurts it long term due to the inability of the American people to purchase products.
Buy American. It isn’t just a slogan, it’s an economic principle with deep ramifications...especially for the low income folks. I can afford it, as can many more as jobs are brought back here - it’s a fly wheel, the more you buy American the more American’s can buy American.
[ 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. ]
Wow
+1
Two people? Two people at 60k make what after in CA after taxes? 34k? Those two people likely wouldn't qualify for a bottom end, 50 year old fixer home. A pretty good life?
The article is full of references to 70’s SJWs. Dem politicians, and unions. If you ever worked a union job during that era in what is now the Rust Belt you know what all of that means. I consider it another liberal disaster. This was the first round of disasters resulting from unions, Dems energy policies, the war on cars, and tax policy.
That area is booming with investment in factories but it will not boom with jobs. Who wants to invest billions then be held hostage by the aforementioned groups? Plant automation yields investment, white collar jobs, and very little than can unionized.
Adding to your comments about some Steelworkers union headquarters showing Marxist slogans, Staughton Lynd is also a Marxist. He showed his true colors went he went to Hanoi in 1965 with traitor Tom Hayden and Communist Party theoretician Herbert Aptheker, a lifelong Stalinist, to support communist aggression against South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
At least Lynd had some feelings for the working people. Aptheker did whatever Moscow told him to do or say, while Hayden became the “new” American communist, a guy, who according to his friend named Gardner, wanted to be the American “Stalin”.
One of the reasons wanted Americans to buy American steel despite the high labor costs for producing it (thanks to the Unions), was to keep their hold on the working class as a way of promoting “socialism” and to gain political allies in the Democrat Party.
Look what it cost the honest working guy. Perhaps Lynd should have studied American free enterprise and capitalism instead of Marxism. He would have seen that it would have been better for the people he wanted to help, not harm
Old reds never die. They just smell that way.
He could’ve been a contender.
Ok, but how does buying all our steel from Red Chinese communists protect us from all of that? If the Unions are red, the bankers and steel using industries who buy from China are just as red.
Wow. What a good article. I remember the local National Rolling Mills in my area and at least 2 steel plants near me that closed in the 70s. Worked in industrial and manufacturing settings for nearly 30 years and watched them dwindle, even in aerospace... Service jobs just don’t pay the way those jobs did when we were making sruff. Thank you, Salena.
The systemiccextractuon of wealth from the us. Viatrade policies, tax policies etc is not an accident. It’s by design. The uniparty is owned by people who fill their pockets doing the extracting.
PacBell essentially blew out 5,000 IT staff in Nov 1991. It wasn’t an ambush dismissal. It was an intentional headcount cut. I wasn’t a target, but the impacts prompted me to join the exit. Had a better job lined up before my final day at PacBell. Stepped off a trainwreck and onto better digs. PacBell cratered and was acquired by a competitor.
As a Pittsburgh area resident, I remember those days well. I remember how the mood of the entire country was against the steel workers. Greedy overpaid bast##ds got it coming, everyone said. But folks in this area knew this was a test case. If the government and the people in power could do that here, they could do it everywhere. We’re not surprised that eventually the working class everywhere began to suffer. Ha ha ha.
I thank you for your reply.
I agree completely.
BOTH PARTIES. Everyone in politics, is sold out to globalism.
Trump is out front, opposing that. I believe it is why he won the election.
This will be a very big issue, in the political arena, in American politics in the future.
China is walking away from us, globally, and every single person in politics, in selling us out.
Except Trump.
I sure hope, he is going to lead increasingly, to more leaders who are for America for a change.
See Hostess Bakeries.
-PJ
Hint, hint... Indiana, Central Indiana to be specific.
Coastals about faint when they see what they can afford here. When they see they can afford a small mansion for the cost of a 1 bedroom hovel on the coasts. You mean I can have a steam room, a sauna and a 4 car garage? Yes you can. You mean state taxes are pretty low and the state is debt free? Uhuh. You mean crime is relatively low outside of the urban core? Yep. How are the schools? Stay out of indy proper and they are world class. Is there anything to do? Lots and lots from sports to concerts to culture to the dipshit farmers markets you people want to lakefront living. Oh I want waterfront. Can I afford that? Well, give up on the 6500 sq foot home then and scale it back to sub 5k and yes. Technology? Fiber in my neighborhood tops out at 2 gigabit. Traffic and commutes? Massive investment in local roads and bridges, and roundabouts create a ballet in traffic (They rock). What is not to like? Winter... we get an average of about 25 inches of snow every winter.
Probably closer to 50k after taxes, even in CA. The effective tax rate for a family of four at 60k federal with standard deductions, personal exemptions and child tax credits are around 5%, or 3k, or less at 60k.
Brought to you by the DEMOCRATS.
Jimmy Carter wouldn’t even talk to them, the majority voted for him...once.
Great article. I just shared it on FB & urge everyone to do the same. My liberal relatives need to read this.
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