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U.S. STEEL DUQUESNE WORKS HAER No, PA-115 (Page 45) million in start-up and operating costs over the first three years if it cut its labor force by 3 0 percent. According to the study, the mill could become 'super competitive' if $150 million were raised to build a continuous caster. Armed with the favorable results of the Locker/Abrecht study, the coalition pressed for a second postponement of demolition while a final feasibility study was conducted by Lazard Freres & Company of New York. In response, USS Chairman David M. Roderick agreed, in a meeting with the County Commissioners and U.S. Representative Joseph M. Gaydos, to delay demolition until the corporation had thoroughly reviewed the Locker/Abrecht report and until further discussions were held with the commissioners. Doubting the chairman's word, members of Local Union #1256 maintained an around-the-clock watch of the plant's main gates to make sure that the company did not surreptitiously attempt to put a demolition crew into the mill. As the final study was prepared, Tri-State concentrated it efforts on gathering support for the establishment of a Steel Valley Authority in each of the communities along the Monongahela and Turtle Creek valleys. Organized along the lines of a public authority, the Steel Valley Authority had the power of eminent domain under state law. This allowed it to acquire the land, buildings, and machinery of existing plants for economic development. Its establishment in communities like Duquesne provided the legal mechanism by which funds from private lending institutions could be procured to purchase and reopen closed industrial facilities. Although Tri-State's effort resulted in the creation of a Steel Valley Authority in nine municipalities, the effort to save the Duquesne Works from permanent shutdown failed. The failure was caused by two factors. First, city officials in Duquesne, skeptical of the "save the mill" campaign from the start, and anxious to establish an industrial park on the former mill site, rejected all efforts to establish a local Steel Valley Authority. Second, and more importantly, the findings of the Lazard Freres study in January of 1986 proved irreconcilable with the coalition's efforts. According to the report, the mill could become competitive only if it installed a continuous caster. Following the Lazard Freres study, the total cost of rehabilitating the works would be in excess of $300 million. One prominent USWA official commented after reading the report that even if the employees worked for free, the mill could not make money. As a result, the coalition abandoned its effort, and Dorothy Six was demolished in August of 1988. A few days later, the corporation transferred ownership of the rest of the mill site to the Allegheny County Department of Development which
seeks to develop it into an industrial park. 57 U.S. STEEL DUQUESNE WORKS HAER No. PA-115 (Page 46) Today, most of the structures on the site of the Duquesne Works, now known as the "City Center" of Duquesne, remain standing. In the seven years since the works was officially closed, the city has lost more than an estimated $1,000,000 per year in tax revenues. Since 1984, many of the small businesses which catered to the mill's workers have either closed or relocated outside of town. Duquesne's declining population is increasingly aged, as most of its young citizens have left the community in search of good paying jobs. According to projections by Allegheny County officials, it will take between fifteen and twenty years before the proposed industrial park will yield anything like the number of jobs available during the mill's heyday. 58 57 The Pittsburgh Press, October 9, 198 3; The Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, March 29, 1984; Hoerr, And the Wolf Finally Came, 582-86; William Serrin, "Pittsburgh Area Rallies to Save Blast Furnace," The New York Times, January 30, 1985; The Pittsburgh Press, January 17, 18, 1985; The Daily News, McKeesport, PA, January 28, 29, 1985; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazetter December 5, 1984; William Serrin, "Rally Presses Revival of Steel Plant," The New York Times, May 19, 1985; The Daily News, January 9, 1986; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 2, 1988. 53 The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 7, 1984; The Pittsburgh Press. November 17, 1983.
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