Evening star., 1937-06-11
Deputies Patrol
Plant After
Reopening.
20 ARE HURT
In STEEL RIOT
Meeting to Protest
Pickets' Routing
Is Called.

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Committee for Industrial Or
odnizdtion began steel dripe in
Mdy after successfully negotiating
agreements rith United States
! Steel units. Strikes mere called
against three independent hold
outs-Republic, Youngstown Sheet
d Tube and Inland. More than
10000 men uere thromn out OF
tcork. Eight men uere killed in
riots. Republics plant at Monroe,
Mich, defed strikers, announced .
It icould reopen. City mobilizcd spe-
csdl police to protect workers and
union drew lines to resist.
ey the Associated Press.
Republic Steel Corp. resumed opera
tions In Its focal Monroe, Mich, plant
today In the wake of a tear gas attack,
but union officials spread their strike
caI to unit Of Bethlehem Steel Corp,
hitherto unaffected by the most ex-
,tensive steel strike In the Nations
history.
A projected mass movement On
Monroe BY G. l. O. workers was called
on, but Homer Martin. president Of the
United Automobile Workers Of Amer
ilca, announced gigantic mass
meeting will be held In Monroe Sum
fday afternoon to protest the forcible
Breaking OF the union picket lines
There. In Columbus, Ohio, union and
company ofiicials gathered for joint
conference called by Gov. Martin L.
Oavey In an effort to avert prevent
able bloodShed"; new repercussions OF
The uniou's food blockade against
krike-besteged mills were heard.
In Cleveland . Federal court took
hinder advisement petition by three
railroads which sought to enjoin the
steel workers Organising Committee
and its pickets from interfering with
Dperation of trains into steel plants
Onion pickets have sought to thwart
movement Of food into the plants
Through stoppage OF trains.
Plane Reported Fired On.
The pilot of plane bearing food
TO one Of Republic steel's plants re-
ported he was fred upon by an as
sailant in a moving motor car.
The steel workers Organizing Com
mittee called q strike for ii pm
<E. s. T) in the huge Johnstown, Pa,
Cambria mill of Bethlehem Steel to
bolster . walkout on a Bethlehem
subsidiary railroad.
David Watkins, s. W. o. c. SUBJ
regional director. estimated $4,000 Of
the $4,000 employees in the mill would
be affected by the strike order. Other
plants Of Bethlehem, which has re-
fused to sign c. I. o. contract and
Is generally believed to be next on the
John L. Lewis unions list, were not
affected by the order.
The strike call came even as the
3. w. o. c. was celebrating a decisive
exclusive bargaining agency election
vote among nearly 5000 workers Of the
Pittsburgh Steel Corp. at two plants
near Pittsburgh.
c. !. o. Win In Voting.
The Lewis union received 90
per cent margin OF all votes cast
6,278 yes and 645 no-the greatest
ballot margin In its young history
A two-to-one majority among $1,000
employees OF Jones g. Laughlin Corp.
bnd slightly greater margin among
Corp. at Sharon, Pa, and Lowellvil,e,
Ohio, had been recorded earlier.
c. w. Ellicott, general manager Of
Bethlehem's Cambria mill, who said
he heard indirectly" that q strike
might be called tonight in the entire
plant, disputed union claims as TO
effectiveness Of the railroad strike.
He said the road, the Conemaush
Ind Black, was carrying on the same
as last night or any other night and
That the Majority Of the men we're at
their positions. c. w Jones, vice
president OF the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen, claimed on the other
hand that all but "one or two" locomo-
tives had ceased operations after the
company's refusal to sign contract
The other railroad union involved
is the Brotherhood of Locomotive
1iremen and Enganemen.
Organizer Arrested.
Swift maneuvers came on other
Fronts as Robert Burke, youthful c. l.
%. organizer who a year ago was eX-
PEELED from Columbia University after
participating in an anti-Fascist DEM
pnstration before the home OF Colum-
bias president, Dr.. Nicholas Murray
(see MONROE, Page A-4)