The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
Violence Broke Out
 With Steel Workers
CcOntinled from Page D

uIants employ approximately e,00l men and the Massillon plants S.. 100.
 Why Company Refuses
 While Philip Murray, chairman oi Inc steel workers organizing com. fhittee, prepared to meet with uniur officials to discuss possible strike action against all four independ- khts, Republic issued a pamphlet tC 4ts 52,0O0 employees explaining why 1t had refused to sign a union con- 4ract. The union, it charged, was driying toward 8 closed shop and the check-off. These, it said, arc eoercive. It said the company ale ready was equalling union wages md hours standards.
 Murphy meets with his union lead .ers in Youngstown at 3 p. m. EST) 1heir discussions will be aimed at Republic, Bethlehem Steel, Youngs- town Sheet and Tube company, and the Inland Steel corporation, which Together employ 154,000 of the 500,- 600 steel workers.
 s The injured men were Paul Town send, 61, and James Mesaros, Al. Particles of glass flew into Mesaros' Ryes and Townsend was cut about the head.
 v Several other incidents of auto mobiles having been stoned were reported.
 I~ Union leaders indicated that the Canton and MaSSillon strikes had hot been called by national head- 4uarters in Pittsburgh, but that the Workers had understood that the s. w. o. c. had authorized" strikes if they desired to strike.
 Demand Closed Shops = Republic officials distributed pam IJfllets denouncing the closed shop as a form of Coercion" and eX- Rlaining why they have refused to sign a contract. They had an- Bounced learlier that in the event pf a strike, all plants would be alosed and no effort would be made 10 operate.
 The pamphlet said that Republic already is satisfying the unions de- mands concerning wages, hours and Vacations, and that it is practicing collective bargaining. Signing Gf A contract. it added, would be merely the first step toward la- ter demand for the closed shop and checkoff."
 "These are the real issues in the present controversy" the state 1nent said. N '"The c. I. O. has shown it's hand in demands already made on some Companies for the closed shop ano checkoff. That is taste of what severy company which signs this contract with the o. l. O. must face Boomer or later.
 Z We beleive the closed shop ano the checkoff are not consistent with square deal.
 '.It is just as much coercion tc force a man into union as it is 10 attempt to keep him out of g union"
 N The check-off it said, "means that the employer |. forces the worker to pay his union dues /. we don't want to be a dues collec. tor for the c. I. O. or any labol 1inion."
 $ Over 1000 Tickets
 7. Approximately 1900 pickets sur rounded the Central Alloy division plant, and 100 guarded the Unior Drawn Steel plant at Massillon. J M. Cheyney, vice-president of the unions local unit, said 700 union members voted unanimously at a meeting last night to strike. The union claims 90 per cent mem- bership in the two plants.
 ~ Mayor Seccombe hurried to police headquarters here when he was told that picketS were forming at the plans of the South Alloy division two units of the Berger Manufact- bring Company and the Canton Tin Plate Company. He toured the strike area and reported that al- Enough some pickets had hurled xtones through plant windows, there were no signs of violence.