The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-11
GRAND JURY BEGINS INVESTIGATION OF YOUNGSTOWN RIOTS EmplOyes Return to Work at Tube WOrks-Are Not
 Molested
FOURTH REGIMENT
 IS ORDERED HOME
Labor Organizer Charges Trouble Was FOmented by Sluggers Brought in by Interest Anxious to De-
 press the Company's Stock

Youngstown, O., January 10,-The open ing of the grand jury investigation of the strike and riot in East Youngstown, the resumption of work at the plant of the and the ordering home of the Fourth reg ment of the Ohio National Guard, which had been called out for strike duty, were the developments in the situation here today
 Quiet prevailed in the vicinity of the tube works and employees who reported for duty today were not molested either when entering or leaving the plant. There officials said tonight that they believed the crisis in the situation had passed.
 Many witnesses were examined by the grand jury during the day, but Prescott ing Attorney Henderson said no report would be made until the latter part of the week. About 20 witnesses have been sum- moned, but many more probably will be called before the probe is completed. \
 GRAVE CHARGES MADE
 Thomas II. Flynn, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, issued statement tonight in which he charged that the roting here last week was q financial scheme to depress the value of stock of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company so that merger of independent steel interests could be effected.
 'We have evidence that we regard as
 
 trouble was caused by paid sluggers brought to East Youngstown by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company MT. Flynn charged in the statement. 'The grnmen who did the shooting were residents of Pittsburg. We understand that these gunmen, p in number, were deputized by Sheriff Umstead If this is so, the sheriff violated the law.
 T think it was financial scheme risged up as the last desperate resort to depress the value of tube works stock so that interests that are trying to form a great $500, ,oO0.O00 merger could get the control they wanted.
 'I have seen sluggers here that I can identify as sluggers that have operated in other places. I know these men were brought here for this job. This whole thing was engineered by financiers. Or ganlzed labor demands that this rotten thing be investigated to the finish"
 Prosecuting Attorney Henderson when shown a copy of the statement said that Mr. Flynn would be called before the grand jury to repeat his charges under oath
 800 MEN AT WORK
 At the office of the tube company it was claimed that about 500 men returned to work today.
 Two federal investigations were started today George A. West of Washington, D. C., representing the federal commis- sion on industrial relations, arrived here to look over the situation, while postal inspectors are Investigating the robbing and burning of the postoffice in East Youngstown Friday night. Six men have already been arrested.
 Persistent reports tonight said that the strikes in the plants of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company and the Re public Iron and Steel company in East Youngstown, Struthers and Lansingville, affecting 1S.000 men, had been settled. Con- firmaton was impossible.
 Thirty -one foreigners arrested for carry ing concealed weapons were today fined from $5 to $50 in East Youngstown. More than 200 arrests were made and the police officials intend to dispose of the rest of the cases as soon as possible.
 Counsels for persons whose home and places of business were burned by the mob, resulting in a loss estimated at more to collect any damages. Insurance com panies will not pay, it is held. and neither state nor county can be held liable.