Evening star., 1937-06-28
{. |. 0. Leaders Discount
Claims of Ohio Employers
and Say "We Have Just
Begun to Fight"
INDIANA MAYOR ASKS
TROOPS BE CALLED
Cambria Mill Operating at Johns
town-Non-Strikers Are Jeered
at Gates-Brick Is Hurled
Through Street Car Window
During Street Demonstration.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Strike in steel mills began May
rs ,Uhen John L. Le1pis' Commit
tee for Industrial Organization
n1oued against three large indie
pendent producers uho refused to
sign contracts. They Were Youngs-
to1on Sheet & Tube, Republic and
Inland. Strike gre,U and ,Dds char
0cteriaed by Uiolence Total dead,
IL; injured, 22O. United States
stepped in NTH Secretary of Labor
appointing Mediation Board phich
met last Week, but Uas unable to
bring peaceful settlement.
By the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June %
Maj. Gen. ellison D. Light of the Ohio
National Guard said today approXi-
mately $500 men we're back at work
In the strike-sieged steel plants in
Youngstown.
AS the strike called against four
independent steel companies entered
Its thirty-third day, back-to-Work
movements were launched all along
Ats Ohio-Pennsylvania front.
The Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee, c. I. O. affiliate. called out
workers of Republic Steel Corp.
Youngstown Sheet e. Tube, Bethle-
hem Steels Cambria plant at Johns
town, Pa, and the Inland Steel Co.,
after the concerns had refused to sign
- ~ ha =
c. l. o. leaders, discounting claims
of employers as to the number of
men returning. declared the figures
should be discounted so per cent" and
added, we have just begun to fight"
Enter Youngstown Plants.
Gen. Light, whose Ohio Guardsmen,
under order of Gov. Martin L. Davey,
are policing the backto-work move
ment in the Mahoning Valley, said
il,3os men entered youngstown plants
today and 1920 last night.
At Sheet G Tubes Campbell plant,
normally employing 10000. he said
1852 entered today and 1925 last
night.
AZ lIle bilSl I1lll pidlt VI oliCcp "
Tube, the Guard officer estimated 1886
came through the gates today and
STA last night.
Republics Stop S" plant, which Or
dinarily has 5000 employees, saw 3,270
men go to work today and 1900 last
night, said Light. In addition, about
500 men entered Republics Bessemer
plant in youngstown. which is just
getting under way, Gen. Light re-
ported.
At JohnstoWn, F. E. Howels, super
intendent at the Cambria works lower
gate in Franklin Borough, the prin-
cipal entrance, said 1900 men came to
work today.
Plans were under way to attempt to
reopen plants in the Calumet area OF
Chicago. where $4,000 workers have
been affected by the strike.
Governor to Refuse.
Appealed to for National Guardsmen
10 aid the mills to reopen, Gov. M.
Clifford Townsend of Indiana said he
would refuse such requests.
However, ne said ne would propose
a plan today which he believed would
be acceptable by both sides. 1t will
provide for reopening the mills under
truce while the National Labor Re-
lations Board hears c. I. O. charges
that Inland and Youngstown violated
the Wagner act.
A Republic Steel spokesman in
Buffalo N. Y, said "over 300" applied
for employment at the gates of the
company's South Buffalo plant. The
plant has been operating since the
strike was called with non-strikers
quartered inside the grounds in Pull
tnan cars.
Elmer F. Cope, S. w. o. c. Or
ganizer, asserted the lineup of men
was ''ruse." There is not q striker
among them he said.
Philip Murray, chairman of the
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