Evening star., 1937-06-29
WarrantNan1es
Organizer in
Conspiracy.
TWO PIPE LINES
ARE DYNAMITED
Plant at Johnstown
Forced to Close
for 2 Weeks.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
The steel strike began May rs.
1t ,Das an effort of John L. Leuis'
Committee for Industrial Orqaniza-
ton to force signed contracts Nth
union by four Little Steel" corpo-
Ydtions: Republic, Inland. Youngs-
toUn Sheet G. Tube and Bethle-
hem. Tmelre persons hare lost
liUes; hundreds hare been injured,
and the cost of strike to date esti-
mated at s25000,0o0.
By the Associated Press.
WARREN. Ohio. June 29.-Author-
tiles charged today Gus Hall, c. I. o.
organizer, with being the brains of a
plot to halt operations at struck steel
mills here by bomb terrorism and
threw all available forces into a hunt
for him.
Quiet for few days, the seven-State
strike front erupted with violence.
Dynamite blasted water pipe lines
leading into the Cambria works of
Bethlehem Steel at JolnstoWn, Pa
Six thousand men were put out of
work indefinitely. company officials
announced. The Cambria plant pro-
duction was paralyzed,
At Beaver Falls, Pa, one more death
was recorded.
Operations were crippled at the
Cambria works
Deaths now total 13 in the strike
called May IS by the Steel Workers
Organizing Committee against the Re-
public Steel Corp. youngstown Sheet
&, Tube and the Inland Steel Co., and
two weeks ago against Bethlehem Steel
The 'walkout was ordered after the
companies refused to sign labor con-
tracts with the c. I. o.
George Mike. As, of Aliquippa, Pa.
died at Beaver Falls of a fractured
skull. received yesterday in clash
between pickets and deputy sheriffs
at the Moltrup Steel Products Co.
plant.
Fatally Injured in Riot.
He was struck by tear gas car
fridge as the deputies attempted to
disperse 40 pickets who had halted
u non strikers returning to work at
the plant.
District Attorney Robert E. Nc
Creary said he would question eye
witnesses before determining what
steps to take.
Frank Moltrup, president of the
company, said it was too bad
the entire blame rests with the pic
kets."
There was no attempt to reopen the
Moltrup plant today.
Hall was specifically charged with
the illegal possession Of explosives.
Three fellow unionists said City Solici-
tor George Buchwalter have made
statements charging he plotted sys-
tematic blastings, including the de-
struction by high explosives OF the
homes of non-strikers.
The three are in jail on the same
charge. Bond was set at s25 900. They
are Arthur Scott, John BoraWeic and
George Bundas.
Warren union officials said they knew
nothing about the charges against
Hall and the others, except what had
been reported in newspapers.
Unable to Find Hall.
Harry Wines. a member of the
Strike Committee, said Hall was not a
fugitive. but had left town yesterday
on business. No one at union head
quarters could say where Hall could be
reached.
At Pittsburgh. Philip Murray, chair
man of the S. w. O. c., declined COM
ment. He said he did not know Hall.
Officials said the explosives were
stored in union headquarters in War
rem for several days Enough, they
said, to wreck the entire block.
AS to that, Wines asserted 1t would
have been an easy matter for any one
to slip into the building unnoticed and
conceal any bulky object. since both
front and back doors were left open
day and night.
Police Chief B. J. Gillen made it
plain that no members of the Strike
Committee were suspected of having
any knowledge of bombing plans.
Companies in the youngstown area,
(See STEEL, Page A-6)