Evening star., 1937-06-04


mere reported idle, after many ef-
forts had Jailed to bring peace. Re-
public Steel Corp. is the focal point
OF the strike, operating picketed
plants at Buffalo. Chicago, Warren,
Ohio; Niles, Ohio, and Canton,
Ohio.
B- the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June a
Philip Murray, gray haired chiettain
of John L. Lewis steel forces, un-
mpromisingly declared a union con-
tract must be signed as he scheduled
his first peace conference today in a
bloody seven-State strike against three
major producers
AS the G. l. o. steel workers Organ
izing Committee added a mine organ
i1ing campaign to its widespread Great
Lakes battlefront in an effort to choke
off ore supplies to one-sixth of the
steel industry Murray said he would
confer at Columbus with Ohios Gov
ernor, and asserted:
I'm not going to settle this strike
until Tom Grdler signs an agree
ment"
Girdler. 6O-year-old pipe-smoking
chairman of Republic Steel Corp,
the only one of three concerns at
tempting TO operate in the face of
militant picket lines, was Murray's
target at a strikers mass meeting last
night in Warren, Ohio.
Declaring that Girdler wasn't
steel mamie was chief of the police
force at Jones & Laughlin before he
was dragged by the bootstraps to be
president OF Republic" the slender
S. w o. c. leader added: Tn here
10 tell Tom that he's not going to get
much more ore"
Campaign in Two States.
4 few hours before, he had an
nounced in conjunction with meeting
NJ KEY leaders along the Buffalo
Chicago strike 'front.' which has made
et least 72,000 men idle, that a cam
palgn would be started for members
in Minnesota and Michigan ore fields
NJ the three concerns.
1t is in these States that Republics
Northern mines are centered. The
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and
Inland Steel Corp, other major in
dependents who have constantly re-
fused to sign union contracts, are
making no attempt to operate their
spraWline mills in the 9-dayold strike
Decision of Gov. Martin L. Davey
to confer with Murray, director of
strike activities in the greatest test
Nf n e old
ton drive, was disclosed in Columbus
by John Owens, Ohio director of the
CLIO
While Davey declined comment on
Wo-hour discussion with Owens,
close advisors to the Governor said he
had taken firm neutral stand in the
controversy and that his main obiec-
tive was to restore peace to the trou-
bed Northeastern Ohio steel area.
Gov. Davey's conference followed
1ecret executive mansion parleys with
Girdler and S. c. Argetsinger, Sheet
Il Tube vice president. The Governor
was understood to be insistent on
only one point-that both sides guard
against anything which would pre-
Cipitate general outbreak of violence
Two more Ohio National Guard OBJ
servers were sent to strike points,
bringing the total to eight.
SkirmiShing was confined chiefly
to statements and counterstatements
as Republic offered $1,000 reward
for arrest and conviction of persons
sniping at its planes carrying food
10 the Warren and Niles mills. More
than 100 shots were fired at them
yesterday a Republic spokesman said
The S. w. o. C's plan to line up
Minnesota and Michigan ore miners
was described by Murray as move
ment to cut off sources supplying the
concerns with raw materials for their
giant mills.
c. l. o. Enrolment F.. .ected.
With Representative Bernard,
Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota an
nounced as the director of the ore
mine campaign. Murray said the min
ers would be enrolled in the c. I. o.
affiliate, the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
Republic sources asserted the danger
of food shortage at the Niles plant
had passed temporarily with the i'm
provement in flying conditions permit
ting planes running the blockade to
skim low over the mill and drop
bundles OF provisions into huge marked
circles
Frank E Flynn, Republics plant
manager at Warren, had expressed
concern that the supply in the Niles
plant might be running close"
The steel union sought at Cleveland
-take-off point for at least part of
Republics food planes-a way to en-
force its strike or starve" blockade
NJ Niles and Warren
Samuel Handelman, Cleveland S. w.
.. c, attorney, said he sent a telegram
to the Federal Bureau of Air Naviga-
tion at Washington charging Republic
was using unlicensed planes Other
S. w. o. C. officials complained to
Safety Director Ness that automobiles
without license plates were doing pa
troll duty for the company at the East
Side flying field
Conference on Picketinx.
B. j. Damich, S. w. o. C. field di-
ioeeoi III SicNclhIlu, WneTe all t0ur
Republic units are closed, planned to
confer with his aides on whether to
picket the airport after asking union
teamsters to refuse food supplies for
the supply base.
At Canton. where comparatively
pea ceful conditions have prevailed
slong the emile picket line, civil au-
thorities prepared to handle crowds
OF c. l. O. sympathizers expected Sun
day for strikers mass meeting to be
addressed by Murray. A sudden strike
following dispute over minimum wage
demands left the Timken Roller Bear
ing Co. and its $500 production en-
ployes idle and its gates picketed
today.
Howard Davis, president of the