Before the war, we were on the whole rather expensive steelmakers, and we produced coal somewhat more cheaply than on the continent.
Now engineers, metallurgists and steelmakers have their mystique as well.
It is in the correct order of magnitude that the corporation should take its place among the largest private steelmakers in the world.
Let the consumer demand better steel and higher quality and better ranges of steel, and let the steelmakers supply it.
He put forward the absurd argument that no individual firm has any redress against the large steelmakers.
I am prepared to give the steelmakers credit for what they have done, but they have come rather too late.
Incidentally, in the steel industry, we have a system of relating the wages of steelmakers to the cost of living index.
Its attractions—on large or small scale—may not induce a steelmaker who has already re-equipped with an oxygen process to change his mind.