Harold J. Ruttenberg

The Nye Committee assigned him to work at Federal Laboratories in Pittsburgh; this organization provided munitions to steel companies and to both warring factions in Cuba.

[6] In 1942, the brothers also worked with Hetzel, Lee Pressman, and Vincent Sweeney in writing the initial legal brief to the National War Labor Board (NWLB) for the Little Steel strike.

[3][5] In 1946, Cyrus Eaton hired Ruttenberg for the Portsmouth Steel Company as vice president in charge of labor relations because he wanted to "make a lot of money.".

On May 19, 1948, Securities and Exchange Commission official Anthon H. Lund accused Pressman of interfering in a lawsuit filed against the Kaiser-Frazer car manufacturing company in a Federal District Court in New York City.

He specified that between February 3 and 9, 1948, Ruttenberg]], then vice president of Portsmouth Steel Corporation, had contacted Pressman for advice on "how to go about filing a stockholder's suite against Kaiser-Frazer.

[2][4] In 1958, the New York Herald Tribune called Ruttenberg "the brilliant research director and economic wizard for the United Steel Workers and the righthand man of Philip Murray," USWA and CIO president.

[2] The New York Times eulogized him, stating "In his years in the labor world and in management, Mr. Ruttenberg was a perennial advocate of improving ties between the two sides.

"[2] Lynn R. Williams cited The Dynamics of Industrial Democracy (1942) by Ruttenberg and Clinton S. Golden as a major inspiration to his own work and career.