Evening star., 1937-06-05
BULLETIN.

wig AAN.
WARREN. Ohio, June 5 [P.-A
sweeping court order to curb strike
picketing tactics at the Republic
Steel Corps Warren and Niles
plants was issued today by Lynn B.
Grifith, Trumbull County common
pleas judge.
The order directed the strikers,
among other things, to refrain
from interfering with the free
access of the employees to the
plant" and with their free return
to their homes"
1t also directed the striking
Amalgamated Association Of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers and all
union ofiicials to stop the pickets
from carrying clubs. pipes, base
ball bats, blackjacks or other
weapons"
Judge Grifhth directed the
pickets and their leaders to comply
with the order Immediately or TO
show cause in court next Thursday
why an injunction should not be
issued.
The Republic Steel Corp. through
Its counsel, Lewis l.. Guarnieri, had
asked the Judge for a temporary
injunction Immediately. The Judge
explained to reporters that this or
der was an alternative writ" and
that violation did not constitute
contempt of court.
BY the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June S.
Police and a force of 20 sheriff's
deputies, armed with rifles and tear
gas, drove crowd Of several hum
dred pickets from bridge adjoining
the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.
after a box car of food was hurriedly
run into the strike-closed grounds
today
Pickets in the C. I. O. Steel Work.
ers' Organizing Committees strike
against Sheet & Tube and two other
leading producers, apparently taken
by surprise, gathered around the
bridge
Sheriff Ralph E. Elser and sub
urban Struthers police quickly massed
at the railroad spur and forced the
pickets to retreat without firing .
shot.
A short time later men using acety-
lene torches cut the rails leading into
the sprawling, 2-mile-long mills OF
the Nations fourth largest steel pro-
ducer independent OF the United
States Steel Corp.
II shall use every means available
to protect lives and property" the
sheriff declared as tension increased
in this Mahoning Valley section in
the seven-State strike called to wrest
signed contracts from Sheet & Tube,
Republic Steel Corp. and Inland Steel
Corp.
Pickets Forced Back.
The sheriff and his deputies arrived
about the time the single box car was
run into the closed mills where MAIN
men have been since the
strike which made more than 10000
workers idle started 10 days ago. Sheet
Il Tube has constantly stated it would
not attempt to operate in face of the
picket blockade.
He and one force of deputies and
police were stationed at the bridge
over which the food passed, and
another group blockaded with four
automobiles a highway leading into
he grounds. The pickets gathered
quickly and were forced back by the
show of arms.
Sheriff Elser said he was called by
Struthers police and took the action
to prevent violence" He and part
of the deputies drove to the scene in
heavily -armored motor truck.
Addressed by Leader.
After the food car incident. strikers
assembled in front of the Struthers
police station, dispensing after John
C. I. o. organizer, told
them the Mayor of Struthers has
agreed to send these special deputies
(of Sheriff Elser), out of town"
Standing on the Struthers police
station steps, city policeman erect
behind him, Stevenson called Elser
a "scab sheriff" and said a petition
would be circulated demanding his
recall.
I'VE lost this morning." he said,
referring to the successful entrance
into the plant of the food car, but
We can take it and we can give IT,"
Il don't know what kind of =
check Strike breaking Sheriff Elser 10
getting, but we are not going to pro-
woke a fight" He added Senate
Civil Liberties Committee investi-
gators already in youngstown would
De asked to inquire into the running
u the Sheet g. Tube blockade.
4tevenson charged the sheriff die
.ectT with running the food car
,hrodk kh the picket line and added:
"fAthere had been 1000 pickets