The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-20

ened with strikes unless they signed collective bargaining contracts with the steel workers committee, ad- mitted that 1t had sent "a few trained observers" to Aliquippa, but denied any plan to interfere. Ernest c. Dunbar, Pittsburgh regional di- rector of the labor board, visited Aliquippa and reported that these men (Republic employes) are in town. They were pointed out to me-" He said report would be sub- mitted to Washington authorities when he had completed his inves- tigation.
 Demand on Cummings
 Philip Murray, chairman of the S. w. O. c. and Lewis chief or- ganizer in the steel industry, de- manded that Attorney General Homer s. Cummings open "an im- mediate investigation to ascertain the facts in the situation "If true," Murray said in a telegram to the justice department, T request there be immediate criminal pro- ceedings started against any offend- CTS of the criminal provisions of the national labor relations act or of any other federal statute violated in this matter"
 Murray named seven members of the Republics private police whom he said were in Aliquippa to inter fere with the election in the Jones & Laughlin plants, the largest yet handled by the national labor rela- tions board.
 Vote on This Question
 The men voted on this question:
 DO you want the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America through the steel workers organizing conn., mittee of the c. I. O. to represent you as the exclusive representative for collective bargaining?"
 The gigantic task of supervising the election was in the hands of Dunbar and 250 assistants.
 Elaborate precautions had been taken by Dunbar to safeguard the election. State police were sent at his request by Governor George H. Earle. They will remain on duty until the polls close and the votes are counted.
 A ban on liquor and beer sales went into effect yesterday afternoon and will continue until 5 p. m. Fri day.
 Only the usual number of city police will patrol the voting areas during the election.
 Began at 6 A. M.
 Voting began at 6 a. m. and con- tinues until all workers have voted. The results will be announced early tomorrow.
 Sixty-five agents of the national labor relations board, including at- torneys from Washington, will assist Dunbar. In addition, there will be 176 authorized observers" half of them employees of J. & L. and the other half appointed by the union.
 Should the year old union of John L. Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization win, it will be its first exclusive collective bargaining rights with 8 major steel company. Its contracts with Uninted States Steel corporation and with more than 100 smaller concerns provide only that it represents those work CTS who are its members.
 Steel companies against whom the SWOC has set May 25 as "con- tract or strike" deadline, are Re- public, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Crucible Steel, Inland Steel and Bethlehem Steel corporation.
 Arrests Ordered
 Pittsburgh, May 20-(UP)-Arrest of eight Republican Steel Corpora ton police officials who allegedly tried to break up" a labor-board supervised election in Jones & Laughlin Steel plants was ordered today.
 Within two hours after the polls opened, state troopers were handed warrants for the arrest of the eight republic men on charges of con- spiracy to commit assault and carry ing concealed weapons. The infor. nations were made by an SWOC ] organizer.