Ernest T. Weir

Who was 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. Roosevelt's 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.