Description: This photograph shows the interior of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Rod and Wire Plant in Struthers, Ohio, ca. 1910-1919. As president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube, James A. Campbell oversaw the purchase of this plant from the Morgan Spring Company in 1908. The Rod and Wire Plant played an important role in the development of the young company by allowing it to diversify its line of steel products. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05573
Subjects: Struthers (Ohio); Industrialists--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown--History; Factories
Places: Struthers (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Strike sympathizers join the pickets at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, Struthers, Ohio, Mahoning County, May 28, 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00586
Subjects: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Struthers (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Credit W.A. Bartz." This photograph shows man rubber belts criss-crossing from machine to ceiling, turning the wheels of spinning spools of, what is most likely, steel tubing. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company plant, east from Center Street Bridge in Youngstown, Ohio at one time made most of America’s steel pipe and tubing. The “new” seamless tube mill, which simply plunges a hole through a solid cylinder of steel, furnished completed tubing far stronger than was possible under the old lap and butt welding process. The Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company was one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world. The company was created by George D. Wick and James A. Campbell along with other local investors who wanted to maintain significant levels of local ownership within the city's manufacturing sector, on November 23, 1900. The home plant of YS&T was known as the Campbell Works located in Campbell and Struthers, Ohio (just south of downtown Youngstown). This plant contained four blast furnaces, twelve open hearth furnaces, blooming mills, two Bessemer converters, slabbing mill, butt weld tube mill, 79" hot strip mill, seamless tube mills and 9" and 12" bar mills at the Struthers Works. The Brier Hill Works consisted of two blast furnaces named Grace and Jeannette, twelve open hearth furnaces, 40" blooming mill, 35" intermediate blooming mill, 24" round mill, 84" and 132" plate mills and an electric weld tube mill. In 1952, during the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman attempted to seize United States steel mills in order to avert a strike. This led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer, commonly referred to as The Steel Seizure Case. The decision limited the power of the President of the United States to seize private property in the absence of either specifically enumerated authority under Article Two of the United States Constitution or statutory authority conferred on him by Congress. Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly closed on September 19, 1977, a day the residents called “Black Monday”. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F02_026_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio--Youngstown; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Credit W. A. Bartz." This photograph shows the length of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube plant. A crane hangs in the center, used for transporting heavy steel ingots from one end to the other. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company plant, east from Center Street Bridge in Youngstown, Ohio at one time made most of America’s steel pipe and tubing. The “new” seamless tube mill, which simply plunges a hole through a solid cylinder of steel, furnished completed tubing far stronger than was possible under the old lap and butt welding process. The Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company was one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world. The company was created by George D. Wick and James A. Campbell along with other local investors who wanted to maintain significant levels of local ownership within the city's manufacturing sector, on November 23, 1900. The home plant of YS&T was known as the Campbell Works located in Campbell and Struthers, Ohio (just south of downtown Youngstown). This plant contained four blast furnaces, twelve open hearth furnaces, blooming mills, two Bessemer converters, slabbing mill, butt weld tube mill, 79" hot strip mill, seamless tube mills and 9" and 12" bar mills at the Struthers Works. The Brier Hill Works consisted of two blast furnaces named Grace and Jeannette, twelve open hearth furnaces, 40" blooming mill, 35" intermediate blooming mill, 24" round mill, 84" and 132" plate mills and an electric weld tube mill. In 1952, during the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman attempted to seize United States steel mills in order to avert a strike. This led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer, commonly referred to as The Steel Seizure Case. The decision limited the power of the President of the United States to seize private property in the absence of either specifically enumerated authority under Article Two of the United States Constitution or statutory authority conferred on him by Congress. Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly closed on September 19, 1977, a day the residents called “Black Monday”. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F02_029_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio--Youngstown; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: These four 8" by 10" (20.32 by 25.4 cm) photographs depict James Griffin with Senator Hubert Humphrey on Labor Day in 1964. In the first image Griffin is seated on the left, and Humphrey is in the middle. James P. Griffin (1911-1979) was born in Struthers, Ohio. As a teenager, he began working in the steel industry with jobs at Struthers Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Prior to the development of the United Steelworkers of America and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Griffin was active in organizing workers in the Youngstown area. In 1933 he assisted in forming the Teamsters Local 377. Griffin later became a member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee at its inception in 1936. In 1946 he was elected District 26 director of the United Steelworkers of America and was re-elected five consecutive times. While in office Griffin was active in recruiting new members and union membership more than doubled during his years as director. Along with assisting in local negotia View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1633_1911202_001
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Business and Labor; Steel industry; Labor unions
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Youngstown Steel + Tube. Stipping [Stripping] Ingots, Youngstown. Photograph by W. A. Bartz." Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company plant, east from Center Street Bridge in Youngstown, Ohio at one time made most of America’s steel pipe and tubing. The “new” seamless tube mill, which simply plunges a hole through a solid cylinder of steel, furnished completed tubing far stronger than was possible under the old lap and butt welding process. The Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company was one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world. The company was created by George D. Wick and James A. Campbell along with other local investors who wanted to maintain significant levels of local ownership within the city's manufacturing sector, on November 23, 1900. The home plant of YS&T was known as the Campbell Works located in Campbell and Struthers, Ohio (just south of downtown Youngstown). This plant contained four blast furnaces, twelve open hearth furnaces, blooming mills, two Bessemer converters, slabbing mill, butt weld tube mill, 79" hot strip mill, seamless tube mills and 9" and 12" bar mills at the Struthers Works. The Brier Hill Works consisted of two blast furnaces named Grace and Jeannette, twelve open hearth furnaces, 40" blooming mill, 35" intermediate blooming mill, 24" round mill, 84" and 132" plate mills and an electric weld tube mill. In 1952, during the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman attempted to seize United States steel mills in order to avert a strike. This led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer, commonly referred to as The Steel Seizure Case. The decision limited the power of the President of the United States to seize private property in the absence of either specifically enumerated authority under Article Two of the United States Constitution or statutory authority conferred on him by Congress. Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly closed on September 19, 1977, a day the residents called “Black Monday”. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F02_003_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio--Youngstown; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown; Steel ingots
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)