Ernest T. Weir

Ernest Tener Weir was an American steel manufacturer best known for having founded both Weirton Steel and the town of Weirton, West Virginia. He was well known in the 1930s for opposing President Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal program, for resisting union organizing drives by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and its successor, the United Steelworkers, and for challenging the legal authority of the National Labor Relations Board. He was called the lone wolf of the American steel industry for his willingness to oppose unionization and refusal to sacrifice his business interests in favor of the steel industry at large.

Weir was born in August 1875 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to James and Margaret Manson Weir. His parents were ScotchIrish Americans who had only recently immigrated to the United States. His brother, David Manson Weir, was born in 1880. He was educated in the citys public schools. Weirs father ran a livery yard, and the family was poor. Weir would later describe his father as a failure and horse fancier and his mother as a saint.

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