Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13

Wftle 1nduStTy geneTdHy mas Oeen
beset 1Uith labor troubles during the
past year, steel has escaped any
serious setback This Uds tenn
porarily avoided last March 1Uhen
corporations announced agreement
to deal Nth labor unions for the
first time; hoWeUer, then, as no1D,
refusing to recognise collective bar
gaining contracts. The last major
steel strike ,Uds in 1919 1t 1UdS
sponsored By the A. F. OF L. and
tailed.
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. May l3-Police
hurled tear gas into crowd of shout
ing, demonstrating pickets today at
the strike-closed Aliquippa, Pa, works
OF the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
One man was injured in what Po-
lice Chief w. L. Ambrose said was an
attempt to prevent him and Burgess
Morgan Sohn from leaving plant
property after making an investiga-
ton of reported violence.
The chief said he arrested woman
on a charge of assault and battery and
melting to riot.
Spread of Strike Threatened.
The strike. called after the union
and the corporation failed to reach
collective bargaining agreement,
threatened to spread to other major
independent steel producers.
1t was the Nations first major steel
valkout in 10 years.
While $1,000 workers Of the two big
j. &, L. plants in Aliquippa and Pitts
burgh remained idle, Chairman Philip
Murray of the Steel Workers Organ
1zing Committee called an Executive
Committee session to mobilize union
forces against two producers who have
refused to sign collective bargaining
contracts with the union.
Murray charged the companies
Republic Steel Corp. and Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Co-were reported
stocking up their plants with tear
gas and munitions.
He called the meeting to consider
''plans and strategy" for Saturday.
Contract Demanded.
simultaneously the union reported
its members at the Bethlehem Steel
Corp. in Johnstown had demanded
collective bargaining contract with
in 10 days"
The outbreak at Aliquippa was the
first since the strike was called at
the J. & L. mills last night.
William H. Turner, chairman of
the United Iron and Steel Workers,
an opposition union formed after
dissolution of the employe repre-
sentation plan, said some of his fol-
lowers had proposed to break through
the picket line in mass formation.
Turner said meeting tonight would
determine whether to remain outside
the line or drive through with a
flying wedge"
While pickets. rain drenched and
tired by their long vigil, guarded the
entrances to plants, Chairman Murray
prepared to resume negotiations with
the company which ended last night
In the strike call.
Dewey to Confer.
Federal Labor Conciliator James F.
Dewey also planned to participate in
a new attempt to bring the company
and union into agreement on Murrays
demand for a signed collective bar
gaining contract.
Jones g. Laughlin, third largest steel
producer independent of the United
States Steel Corp, was the first big
independent to be shut down in the
unions drive for signed contracts, pat
termed after that made with United
States Steel and 100 smaller indie
pendents.
Thousands Of day workers joined
with members of the early night shift
at IL o'clock last night in carrying
out Murray's order to shut the mills
tight"
The picket lines thinned during the
night and today only few hundred
men stood watch at the gates The
company did not attempt to operate
3O AShSno OSSdoAO4ldlly dIs
tackled non-union employees who at
tempted to pass through their lines.
Three men, two Of them veteran en-
ployes, were beaten at the Aliquippa
works when they tried to enter the
gates last night. Only maintenance
men were permitted to 60 into the
plants.
Murray stated:
I'VE have no wish to sabotage your
plants. We will give you every as
sistance possible to care for furnaces
and other necessary maintenance
work"
Aliquippa police formed a wedge
and fired three shots into the air to
make way for one company man.
Saloons Ordered Closed.
Judge Frank E. Reader of Beaver
County, which includes Aliquippa, Or
dered all bars and beer parlors closed
during the strike.
Chairman Turner of the independ-
ent union of Jones & Laughlin work.
ers declared the strike would show
the weakness" of Murray's union
force which are allied with Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton.