The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-01
PEACE RElCNS IN
 STEEL RIOT ZONE
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 mitted.
 There will be no martial law un- less Chicago city police prove un- able to preserve law and order"
 The recession from violence bore no promise of settlement of the strike called by steel workers or ganizing committee in northern plants of the Republic Steel corp. and Youngstown Sheet and Tube company in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York and Michigan. You can mark it down that this strike isn't going to end until an agreement is signed" Van A. Bittner, regional di- rector announced. The S.W.O.C. de- mands signed agreement or. recog- milton by the three independents.
 Bittner said the avowed attitude of Republic Steel, only affected con- cern attempting to operate in defi- ance of the strike, was that 1t would not sign an agreement with S.W.O. C., even if the national labor rela- tions board found a majority of its workers wished to be represented by the CI.O. affiliate. Company officials declined comment. More Violence
 Cleveland, June 1-(UP)-Sheriff Roy Hardman of Warren reported today that 1000 pickets battled a large number of men inside Repub- lies Steel corporations Warren plant in continuation of violence on the Ohio front Of the seven- state steel strike. Bricks and iron bolts were the chief weapons. At least two men were injured.
 The fight apparently started when several men tried to get through the picket lines to go to work IT. the mill, which still was operating. Hardman said Dick Bauman and Charles Deming, who were on the picket line, were the known injured in the fighting during the night. They were hit on the head by mis- sels thrown by men inside the plant enclosure.
 Photographer Fired On
 Deputy Sheriff E. R. Bash re- ported that Charles Wilk, a newspa- per photographer from the Wide World agency in Cleveland, had en- tered a formal complaint that he was shot at four times by Repub- lie guard while he was attempting to photograph the landing of a Re- public food pianc III the Warren mill enclosure.
 The Republic corporation declared the picketing of five major plants still operating had become "mili- tary invasion" Declaring that "out- Siders" were trying to close the plants and evict the men who were working, the corporation said:
 Every principle of law and de- cency demands that the thousands of men working today in our pick eted plants be given full support ln their determination to keep on working and get paid"
 Republic continued to land food planes at its Warren, O., mill and to drop packages of canned goods from planes at Niles, O. Men with high powered rifles sniped at these planes intermittently all weekend.
 Lewis Says Murder
 Washington, June 1-(UP)-John L. Lewis, chairman of the Con- mittee for Industrial Organization, the Republic Steel com pany and the Chicago police force today with being guilty of planned murder"
 Lewis, in a prepared statement, accused the police of aiding the steel company and described the clash in which several steel work CTS were killed Sunday in Chicago as brutal massacre.
 Lewis said:
 "The brutal massacre of the Chi cago steel workers is blot on the conscience. They were The killing took place on the open prairie, six blocks from the gate of the sacred property of the Republic Steel company. Six men were killed, hundred others were shot, gassed and clubbed. Not 8 single policeman was shot. Those who were injured suffered from the naked hands of men who were lighting for their lives against armed killers.
 Police Force Corrupt
 ''The nation knows the Chicago police force is corrupt. It is the same force that for years has prO- ,ected the hoodlum and the thug It now aids the Republic Steel Go. This company and the police force are guilty of planned murder.
 Somewhere in this nation should pc a force strong enough to bring ,hese uniformed killers and their ;o-conSpirators to justice. Some