The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-23
STEEL MEDIATION
 BOARD WORKING
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JIG OAAACA kAOkACoo AA1A4C " eAsS board was understood to be eiimina- ton of various settlement formulas as unsatisfactory to one or both sides. So far neither labor Ilcr man. agement has yielded toward an agreement but the board will try half a dozen proposed methods of reaching an indirect solution that would permit smoke to pillow up again from the chimneys of plants normally employing approximately 80000 men.
 Latest Developments
 Developments in the 2s-day-old strike:
 Military rule in Ohio WIS broad ened to include Stark county, where violence has marked the Canton area strike, as well as Mahontng and Trumbull counties, which include the great Youngstown mills.
 Chairman Tom M. Girdler of Re- public Steel corporation appears be- fore the senate post office committee in Washington tomorrow to testify about the c. I. O. strike against Mahoning Valley Mills, particularly at Warren and Niles where the post office department refused to carry "abnormal mail containing food through picket lines to non-strikers inside the plants.
 A citizens committee at Johns town, Pa, prepared to demand re- opening of Bethlehem's big Cambria plant, which was closed by state troopers with loss of a daily payroll of around $10O,000. They proposed that picketing be permitted and that non-strikers be given protection.
 Threaten Picket Lines
 Strike leaders threatened to re- sume heavy picket lines unless Youngstown, O., peace officers ended a series of raids that led to arrest of 173 strike sympa thizers in Mahon- ing county. Many were held on charges of possessing guns or dy- namite bombs. Others were held on suspicion. Those arrested included Robert Burke, g, c. I. o. organizer, at one time expelled from Columbia university for an anti-Nazi demon stration.
 Complications threatened in the warren and Niles districts when Governor Davey ordered the militia to carry out court order limiting pickets at the Republic plants and permitting the plants-whlch have been operating part time--tc con- tinue. Although Davey urged the company not to increase its force of workers, the court order would per- init non n-strikers to return to their jobs.
 Both Claim Gains
 Both company and strike repre- sentatives claimed gains along the strike front. One management spokesman said it Hooks like the strike is about ovel." Philip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers Or- Committee, said re was more confident of victory than ever" as result of a personal visit to the Mahoning Valley district.
 A source close to the mediation said that the board was deVoting most of it's time to trying to get concrete suggestions from both sides, submit them to the other side and thus see if an avenue to agreement could be found. The va riouS proposals included a Sugges- tion that the company officials sub- init memoranda to the board stat ing that they would observe specified labor Standards-thus avoiding a signed contract yet putting the terms into writing. Both sides ob- jected to such a procedure, it was 
 Victims Buried Today
 The two victims of Saturday nights riot at the gates of Republic Bojovick and James Etsrj to be buried today. While the funerals were not to be private, union leader said, there was no plan for demonstrations. Their deaths brought to 12 the toll of lives lost since the strike began.
 Davey said he extended military rule to Stark county, where there are six Republica plants in Canton and Massillon, because one mill-the United Alloys plant at Canton-had continued to work throughout the strike, although apparently on a curtailed scale.
 Workers in that plant, est.mated by non strikers at 2,000 of the $500 ordinarily employed by Republic in the city, have been virtual prisoners.
 Extension of the military rule also threatened tension between Canton strikers and the guardsmen. Davey's new order promised that "workmen in this plant shali be permitted to go to and from their homes without being molested and without danger to their families"
 No Interference
 It guaranteed there would be no with railroad rranspor- tation, a danger spot at Canton be- cause the main lines of the Penn sylvania Railroad bisect Republic 
 Tt is our urgent request that no effort be made to increase the num- Der of employees at work during the of the federal media tion board" Davey said.
 "It is expected that the work of the federal mediation board will be concluded within 8 few days. It is our purpose to help maintain exist ing conditions during this brief pe- riod to cooperate with local police officers in handling the problems of the strike situation and to assist in a firm and resolute manner in main taming peace and order"
 The military rule was established, the governor said, not to show any favoritism, but rather to preserve the orderly process of labor negotiations and the protection of the just rights of the contending forces"