I almost got a machinist apprentice job at The Point in 1969. I passed all the aptitude tests but when given a physical by the BS medical office they said I didn't weigh enough for that position(I was a string bean back then), and they declined my application for safety reasons. Jobs were easy to find in Baltimore at the time and I ended up working for BG&E. Sparrows Point was a pretty dirty and unhealthy place to work as the retired workers in this video can attest. Homes, sidewalks, streets...literally everything in the town had a reddish brown coating of dust. The steel mill and shipyard, however, employed thousands of people over many decades and was a huge job loss for the Baltimore area when it closed down.
Mr. John Costello was my Dad's (Stephen Kardian) best friend. No Nails John and Cigar Steve worked side by side for decades, went to the same church and were active in many church functions together, played poker together. Mr. John spoke and played harmonica at my parent's 40th wedding anniversary. Mr. John (like my Dad) was a hard-working, honest, devoted family man and he (like all the others) is missed very much.
@AJ no I know auto manufacturers moved outside of United States. Also Maryland passed the inventory tax. The fact is democrats have destroyed manufacturing. Baltimore is a cesspool because of democrat politics. Show me one place ran by democrats that isn't a cesspool. Name one policy democrats have passed that has helped any Americans. Any.
The strike of ‘59 opened the door. Foreign companies forced customers to sign long term contracts, guaranteeing a foothold in the states, making the domestic companies have to fight for what was theirs.
I almost got a machinist apprentice job at The Point in 1969. I passed all the aptitude tests but when given a physical by the BS medical office they said I didn't weigh enough for that position(I was a string bean back then), and they declined my application for safety reasons. Jobs were easy to find in Baltimore at the time and I ended up working for BG&E.
Sparrows Point was a pretty dirty and unhealthy place to work as the retired workers in this video can attest. Homes, sidewalks, streets...literally everything in the town had a reddish brown coating of dust. The steel mill and shipyard, however, employed thousands of people over many decades and was a huge job loss for the Baltimore area when it closed down.
My grandfather Sidney O. Speaks worked over 40years bethel steel… RIP Pop Pop
my dad was a asbestos installer there before asbestos was found to cause cancer - he died at 47 of lung cancer
Mr. John Costello was my Dad's (Stephen Kardian) best friend. No Nails John and Cigar Steve worked side by side for decades, went to the same church and were active in many church functions together, played poker together. Mr. John spoke and played harmonica at my parent's 40th wedding anniversary. Mr. John (like my Dad) was a hard-working, honest, devoted family man and he (like all the others) is missed very much.
Very well done
I worked at Beth steel also
My father and grandfather and I worked at Beth steel my cousin Ed bartee was the president of the union
No one brings up domestic non-union minimills?
That was a major contributing factor.
Democrats policy removed all manufacturers from Maryland. Steel didn't fail government did
@AJ no it had to do with nafta an bill Clinton
@AJ no I know auto manufacturers moved outside of United States. Also Maryland passed the inventory tax.
The fact is democrats have destroyed manufacturing. Baltimore is a cesspool because of democrat politics. Show me one place ran by democrats that isn't a cesspool.
Name one policy democrats have passed that has helped any Americans. Any.
The strike of ‘59 opened the door. Foreign companies forced customers to sign long term contracts, guaranteeing a foothold in the states, making the domestic companies have to fight for what was theirs.
@AJ you are just a fool make excuses for democrats and their stupid policies. The next one is this solar over coal
@@richardhenry1969you mean the NAFTA treaty that George HW Bush signed? Clinton signed it into with the majority backing by Republicans.
Woke video. All about ethnicity.