Stonewalling the senate: Elbert H. Gary's testimony on the open shop
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communication Quarterly
- Vol. 24 (2) , 20-27
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01463377609369215
Abstract
After an acrimonious and unsuccessful strike attempting to unionize the steel industry in 1919, the Senate's Labor Committee held hearings to ascertain the causes. Elbert H. Gary, chief executive officer of the United States Steel Corporation, refused repeatedly to give the Senators an adequate explanation of his position on the open shop controversy. His testimony provides an example of the rhetorical strategy of “stonewalling.”Keywords
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