National Tube Old Timers Honored – Feb. 18, 1950

Here’s a nice slice of life in Lorain from more than 70 years ago, when the steel mill was the dominating force in the city. 

It’s a quartet of photos that ran on the front page of the Lorain Journal on Feb. 18, 1950, featuring a group of National Tube old timers that were being honored. 

The article under the photos reads, "When the National Tube Management club holds its Mid-Century Dinner Tuesday night at the American Legion Home, it will honor supervisors whose service at Lorain Works or other units of the U. S. Steel Corp. totals 1110 years, an average of 46 years and four months each. 

"Most outstanding record is that of the Bessemer group, upper left, including four supervisors whose service totals 193 years. Bessemer Supt. William Miller, right, has nearly 50 years of service. Others in the picture are John Browning, Albert Ego and Frank Fowler. 

"The largest group of old-timers is from the maintenance department, most of these men starting at the Lorain mill in the early days as electrical or mechanical helpers or apprentices. In the picture are Carl Clough, Charles H. Mower, Louis W. Long, John A. Daly, and Henry F. Mullen in the first row, and James D. Kauf, J. Henry Alexander and Robert P. Curley in the back row. 

"In the picture at lower left are George H. Jones of the engineering department, Henry Murray of the rolling mills roll shop, Leo J. Malson, butt mill operating, James G. Bramwell, seamless hot mills, and Rollin Hicok, accounting. 

"Ernest Price, “Gus” Bueche, Frank Bloedorn and Albert Prosser, in the picture at lower right, all started at Lorain Works before 1905 and all are veterans of the machine shop except Price, who is general foreman of the blacksmith shop. Also being honored but not in the pictures are Leo Kelley and Carl Wagner of the Accounting department and Daniel Cairns of the machine shop.

As most of these old timers were already, well, old – it might be unlikely that any of their immediate family members are still around and reading this blog. Some of them are from Pennsylvania as well.

But it’s nice to get their names out on the internet, because you never know.