Evening star., 1937-06-30

Resume Three Shift Operation.
The Youngstown Sheet g. Tube Co..
employing 14,500 men normally, re-
sumed the three-shift schedule this
morning. following the lead of Repub-
lie Steel Corp, which restored the
eight-hour working schedule yester-
day.
Plant managers claimed 80 per cent
OF their forces were back at work and
operations supervisors were reported
establishing the 5-day 40-hour week
for millhands.
Sheet & Tube officials said they
would be able to make steel even
without the return of some of the
production men who joined the walk
out, pointing out that some of the
men could be worked six days - fill
the gaps left by striking workers.
S. w. o. c. strike leaders watched
the progress of the reopened mills
from downtown headquarters and dis
patched organizers to conduct group
meetings of the workers still hold
Ing the strike line. Picketing, how
ever, was scarcely visible. Only a
few pickets could be seen at some mill
gates carrying union signs.
Entire blocks in Canton around
Eighth and Belden streets were with
out telephone service
Wires, ripped from poles, hung on. the
ground on Eighth street. 1t was be-
heved light ropes, weighted with
stones, were thrown over the wires and
the lines hauled to the ground.
Telephone Service Cut.
Telephone service was cut to the
National Guard armory, but the
service to the Republic plants was not
affected.
Two weeks ago cable was cut in
the vicinity of Eighth and Belden.
, Shortly after the movement Of work.
ers in and out of the Canton plants
began the guard reported that every
thing was under control.
BY midmorning Republic announced
that ll2 automobiles had hurried ap-
proximately $50 workers into the
plants, and the movement of cars in
and out kept up.
Some 200 pickets, many women,
were kept moving along by the
Guardsmen
Reluctantly, they kept on a patient
march, two and three in a group,
shouting "Scab" at the soldiers.
An attempt to stone non-striker's
automobile was made, but the planes
spotted 1t and dropped note to the
military encamped at the Belden
School few blocks away. A detach-
ment came running and broke up the
trouble.
C.I. o. Officials Held.
Among those held by the Guards
men were Frank A. Hardesty subre-
gional director of the c. I. O., and
Homer Downward, identified by the
Guardsmen as president of the "All-
Nations Lodge" c. I. O. organization.
Two Of the men who have been in
the plant since the strike started have
become fathers. They never saw their
children until today.
They are John R. Wilson and E. J.
Alfred
The Alloy plant normally employs
$500. Company officials said 800 men
entered the plant this morning, max
ing a force now at work of 1900.
The Stark Rolling Mills, another
Republic subsidiary, employing about
$500, opened, but company officials
said they were unable to say imme-
diately how many men returned.
The Berger Manufacturing Co.,
normally employing 800, also opened,
with company officials saying 100 were
back.
Offers Reward in "Intimidation."
Republic Steel, at Pittsburgh, posted
$1,000 reward for the arrest and
conviction of any person intimidating
its workers in three Pittsburgh district
plants.
Announcement of the offer was con-
tanned in newspaper advertisement.
Plants involved are the Dilworth Por-
ter Co.. Pittsburgh, and the Ideal
Foundry and Union Drawn Steel Co.,
both of Beaver Falls, Pa.
l.. E. Creighton, general manager Of
Union Drawn Steel, said ITS OF a
normal pay roll Of $50 had returned
to work today.
Joseph Timko, strike leader, said he
had asked the La Toilette Civil Liber-
ties Committee to investigate "all
phases" of the reopening of the plants
in Beaver. Falls. A union member
was fatally injured there Monday.
Tomorrow morning, at Indiana Har-
bor, Ind, more steel plants will open,
the Inland Steel Co. announced. But
c. I. O.'s Van A. Bittner, regional di-
rector there, said the union would "do
everything possible to stop the plant
from opening" that 80 per cent of
the $4,000 Inland Steel employees were
=. members of c. I. o.
Added to the announcement Of In
land Steel's intention to reopen at In
diana Harbor tomorrow were reports
that Republic Steel might resume