All Executive Orders
Executive Order 10340Revoked
Directing the Secretary of Commerce to Take Possession of and Operate Certain Steel Mills
Harry S. Truman
April 8, 1952
17 FR 3139
Summary
Directed the Secretary of Commerce to seize and operate most of the nation's steel mills to avert a strike during the Korean War. Struck down by the Supreme Court in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952), a foundational case on presidential power.
Topics
laborKorean Warexecutive powersteel industry