The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-11

| that he believed "home-rule" po- Hey would keep the situation in or der.
 200 More Guard Plant
 Two hundred additional deputies stood guard at the entrance to the Newton plant, a subsidiary of Re- public Steel Corporation.
 The mill was scene of a fight late yesterday in which some 300 deputies, using 200 tear gas shells, scattered steel strike pickets and sympathizers, and opened the mill to $50 men who streamed through the receding gas clouds to go to work.
 It was the first reopening of a mill that had suspended opera tions in the strike called 16 days ago by the CLOS steel workers organiz- ing committee against the Repub- lie, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Inland Steel companies.
 Seven were wounded in the clash seriously enough to require hospital treatment. Scores were bruised, in- cluding many C.I.O. adherents who were chased down as they fled or were dragged from their homes and beaten by the "vigilante" special police. Hundreds, many of them spectators, were affected by the gas.
 Gov. Davey Sees Leaders
 In the atmosphere of increased bitterness engendered by the events at Monroe, Governor Martin L. Da- vey of Ohio arranged to bring lead- CTS of both sides in the steel strike togeter in the executive mansion in Columbus at 9 p. m.
 It will be the first joint confer ence since the strike began. Media tion hopes were slender.
 Meantime, the strike spread to a section of Bethlehem Steel Corpora tion, the nations largest steel pro- ducer next to U. s. Steel.
 The steel workers union, which previously had not moved against Bethlehem, announced a strike in the company's huge cambria plant at Johnstown, Pa., which employs 12,000 men. This action came after walkout by railroad men whose services were vital to the plants operation.
 Special Force Mobilized
 The mobilization of Monroe's force of special police to meet the threatened invasion of outsiders was begun shortly before midnight.
 Instead of the nightsticks and tear gas they used yesterday, pistols were used to all.
 American Legion members aug mented the special and regular po- lice on the road patrols. In addi- tion to pistols, many members of the contingents carried shotguns, rifles an gas bombs.
 By 2 a. m. EST. 6 a. m. EDT.l they reported they already had turned back about 15 automobile loads of strike sympathizers from Detroit.
 A force of about 200 also was sent to the Newton mill entrance to prevent the CIO. members with in the city from reassembling and regaining the position which they had held at the mill entrance.
 The Newton company claimed to be rapidly approaching normal operation after yesterdays reopen ing.
 The plant employed 1851 men be- fore the strike. In an election whose validity was disputed by the union, about GA per cent of the workers voted to go back to their jobs.
 An estimated $50 men entered the plant after the battle. Others went in at the regular midnight change of shifts.
 Fourth Steel Plant
 JohnStoWn, Pa., June 11-(UP)- The Steel Workers Organizing Con- mittee extended its seven-state strike against three independent steel companies to a fourth major producer today.
 David Watkins, committee organ izer in the Johnstown area, an- nounced that union men would walk out of the Cambria plant of the Bethlehem Steel corporation to- night in 8 sympathy strike with 200 Conenaugh and Blacklick railroad workers.
 The Bethlehem company depends on the railroad, a connecting link with the Pennsylvania railroad, for transportation of its raw materials and other supplies. The lines em- ployes walked out because the com pany refused to sign g contract with two railroad brotherhoods.
 Although the railroad workers contended that their strike would force the Cambria plant to close, making 15,00O employees idle, Wat kins declined to call out the steel unionists so that the strike would be