ocr: THE UNION MAKES ANIMPACT The United Steelworkers of America, which started as the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, negotiated its first contract in 1937. Here is the minimum pay for steelworkers from the union's inception until 1958. $2.00 $1.80 1947 $1.60 $1.09 1958 $1.40 1942 $1.96 $1.20 1937 784 $1.00 62.50 1952 $1.44 80c 60c 40c 20c 3738'39'40'414243'44'454546'47'48'495051'52535454'5556'5758 Note: Minimum pay figures in 1956-58 do not include 17 cents an hour received in cost-of-living increases. Source: Morning Call archives
