Evening star., 1934-05-29
TROOPS PREPARE
F0RNEW THREATS
OF TOLEDO RIOTS
Mediators Divide Forces to
Break Automotive Strike
Deadlock.
NEW SIEGE OF FACTORY
FAILS TO MATERIALIzE
Coroner's Inquest Into Deaths of
Two Is Resumed-Forces
Held Sufficient.
BY the Associated Press.

TOLEDO. Ohio, May 29.-Eational
Guard troops prepared to meet new
threats Of violence today as Federal
mediators divided their forces in at
tempts to break the deadlock in the
automotive strike and to avert a
walkout of electrical workers called
for Thursday.
A crowd of 100 assembled at the
Bingham Stamping g. Tool Co. early
today with piles Of rocks and jeered
the 260 employees entering the fac
tory.
Threats were hurled that you'll
be able to get in, but it won't be
so easy to get out"
Brig. Gen. L. S. Connolly, in charge
OF soldiers guarding the Electric Auto
Lite plant, said two Of his officers
are watching conditions at the Bing-
ham factory.
We have force in reserve at the
armory downtown he said. land at
the first sign of violence these troops
will be rushed to the Bingham COM
pany."
The general said he appreciated the
possibility that strike sympathizers
might attempt siege of Bingham
workers such as occurred at the Auto
Lite plant week ago, but expressed
the belief that his troops could handle
the situation.
The anticipated violence failed to
materialize as the employees left the
plant, although they passed through
a picket line and about 100 strike
sympathizers who had assembled.
Requests Of manufacturers that a
garrison be established at the Bing.
ham and Logan gear plants, where
strikes are in progress, have not been
met, Gen. Conelly said, because of
the fear that this might cause trouble
Mediators in Conference.
Meanwhile, as coroner's inquest
into the deaths Of two men in last
Thursdays rioting at the Auto-Lite
strike zone was resumed, Mediators
Charles P. Taft and Ralph Lind went
into conference with a committee OF
the Auto-Lite advisory council. which
strikers say is a company union.
Taft was unable to talk because OF
hoarseness brought on by a continual
round Of conferences for days in his
attempts to settle the strike, which was
called at the Auto-Lite, Bingham and
Logan gear plants six weeks ago.
With Lind as spokesman, the medi-
ators asked the council to accept a
proposal Of the strikers that workers
hired since the walkout began be re-
placed by strikers as one of the con-
ditions Of strike settlement.
IF this is accepted Lind said,
well start all over again to try to
bring the strikers and the manufac-
turers together"
While this conference was under
way Mediators E. H. Dunnigan and
Ansel Cleary conferred at separate
meetings with officials of the Electri-
cal Workers Union and officers of
the Toledo Edison Co.
Business men fear that if the elec-
trical workers strike becomes effec-
tive Thursday electric current light
ing homes and furnishing power to
80 per cent of Toledo's industry will
be shut of.
The Labor Committee of % mean
while proceeded with plans for a pa
rade and demonstration Friday night,
when date of a general strike, ap-
proved by 68 of the 103 local unions
here, will be announced.
Decision Due Today.
Although Judge Roy Stuart of Com
mon Pleas Court said yesterday he
would announce his decision today in
contempt proceedings arising over in
functions restraining representatives
of unemployed leagues and other out
siders from picketing at the Auto-Lite,
it was learned today from the judge
that his ruling would be deferred until
Monday.
There is possibility that his de-
cision will bear on an issue raised by
Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for the
American Civil Liberties Union. as to
whether the company has violated
N. r. A. provisions.
Gen. Conelly said that all was quiet
today at the Auto-Lite plant, where
5 days of rioting brought fatalities
and injuries to more than 200 last
week.
"The attitude of the spectators has
changed" he said. They are more
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