COLUMBUS STEEL CASTINGS CO history

In 1902, the company switched from manufacturing iron to steel couplings.

in 1904.29 Welfare work "involves special consideration for physical

who began work at Buckeye in 1906 and who was in the foundry

In 1907 the company's directors approved

He helped reorganize the Columbus Chamber of Com- merce in 1908 and was a charter member of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

turing establishments.31 In 1910 they received $1.92 per day, a fig-

Electric furnaces were first used commercially in the United States in 1911.

By 1914 the city had some 800 manufacturing plants em- ploying 35,000 workers, and it had risen to fortieth place among the industrial cities of the United States.62 With growth came signs of modernity.

Executive Committee Meeting, March 7, 1917.

Typical was an intershop picnic attended by 700 employees at Indianola Park on August 16, 1919.

Scientific Management (New York, 1923), 2 volumes; Sudhir Kakar, Frederick

Castings Handbook (first edition, Cleveland, 1941), chapter 3.

9, 1948; Directors Meeting, Jan.

ness History Review, 46 (Winter, 1972), 466-75; A.C. Littleton, ed., Studies in the

For more detail on Buckeye's early years, see Mansel Blackford, "Small Busi- ness in America: Two Case Studies," in Paul Uselding, editor, Business and Economic History: Papers Presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference (Urbana, Ill., 1979). 4.

2. The Buckeye Steel Castings Company later became part of Buckeye Interna- tional, and Buckeye International merged with Worthington Industries in 1980.

wages 10 percent.38 Now employing nearly 2000 men, Buckeye had