Evening star., 1937-07-02
Steel
Continued From First Page.)

tCOnIlnticO from flESb fHge.)
indication of non strikers moving back
into the mills
The Indiana Harbor plant normally
employs about 1000 men.
Philip Murray, chairman OF the
Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
Spurred legal steps to wiring signed
contracts from independent steel pro-
ducers-the chief point in dispute
in the whole seven-State strike area.
Asks Labor Board Election.
On behalf of the S. w. o. c. Murray
filed petitions with the National Labor
Relations Board at Pittsburgh re-
questing collective bargaining elections
among employees at all plants Of the
Bethlehem Steel Corp and the Weir
ton Steel Co.
The back-to- movement in
violence.
Gates Of the concerns central steel
division swung open. under protection
Of steel-helmeted National Guards
men, for the first time since the strike
started May 27.
Non n-strikers, in about us automo-
blles. quietly drove inside About 300
pickets booed and jeered, but were
kept away from the plant by the
troops
Some foremen and Office workers
also were sent into Republics union
drawn steel division. Harvey Elliott
c. I. o. picket captain. estimated
their number at about 100.
The reopening left Cleveland the
only city where Republics sprawling
mills are completely closed. Reopen
ing Of the four Cleveland units is ex-
pected next week.
Workers Home Dynamited.
Only few hours before the con-
Germs newest "back-to-work" move
the home Of non-striking employe
was dynamited at nearby Canton. The
blast ripped the rear porch of the
home OF Matt Pericsh, but injured
none.
Republic ignored a c. l. o. picket
captains bristling def:
II they try to open this plant
they are in for a damned bloody
fight"
Five hundred troops moved in 10
forestall such an eventuality. They
came from the Youngstown area,
where plants were reopened last week
under similar circumstances without
disorder.
Tramping feet were drumming .
back-to-work tune all along the flve-
week-old strike front-from Johns
town, Pa. with its recent history OF
martial law and dynamitings and
aroused citizenry, through the Ohio
mill cities Of the Mahoning Valley and
up to the western terminus Of the In
diana Illinois Calumet area.
But the strike, with its record Of
l3 dead, $50 injured and 100000, 900
cost, was still on.
Picket Saw Danger.
Leo w. Cox, picket captain at Re-
public's Central Steel Division here.
left no doubt about that last night
when, protesting against the use of
troops for the plants reopening, he
said:
IT they try to open this plant they
are in for damned bloody fight. We
have more than enough men here
to whip this army and the scabs,
too"
Republics Central Steel Division
normally employees s,7O0 men. The
opening today called for only 800
workers. the company announced. A
"warm-up" crew was moved into the
mills during the night.
State troops proceeded with caution
over = viaduct last night, for there
had been whisperings OF 4 plot to
dynamite it. Small detachments were
sent ahead, and they made a thorough
search before the main body Of troops
was permitted to advance.
The picket captains protest against
use OF troops was echoed in Federal
Court at Columbus, where c. l. O, is
seeking to enjoin the employment of
militia in the strike sectors. Judge
Nell G. Underwood has set next Tues
day as the date for hearing the unions
appeal for temporary restraining
order against the troops. -
The unions position now contrasts
Sharply with its attitude when troops
were first ordered into the MahoninR
Valley. more than 4 week ago. At
that time the Mahoning Valley was
treated to the unusual spectacle of
strikers cheering the arrival Of SOL
diers, the reason being that the orig
lnal troops order called for the sol.
oiers to maintain the status ouo,"
which meant keeping mills closed that
were closed when they came in.
Davey Modifies Order.
Later Gov. Davey modified the order
with statement that the soldiers
would guarantee "the sacred right to
work-and the right to strike" Under
this dictum plants at youngstown and
Warren have reopened. Company Of
fcials said today plants In the
youngstown area, normally employing
10000 men, are within 900 men of
normal"
This back to- work movement-the
union insists the companies estimates
are "exaggerated"-has been accom-
plished without any change In their
attitude toward the union. Even