Evening star., 1937-06-08
REPUBLIC SENDS
(FAR[EYTHREATT TO
! SUE OVER MAILS
Lawyer for Steel Firm Asks
Official to Open
Service.
|CllENT L0ATH TO USE
FORCE, HE WRITES HERE
Move Follows McKellar Promise
Of Inquiry Into Alleged In
reference in Strike.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
n The Republic Steel Corp, assert
ing it was denied use of the mails
Tor sending food to its workers in
strike besieged plants, advised Post
master General Farley today it would
take legal action unless the mails
were opened to it.
The corporation, through John S.
Brookes, Jr, official and counsel, made
formal demand on Farley Ito issue
orders to the postmasters at Niles
and at Warren (Ohio), respectively,
to accept for delivery and deliver all
matter submitted for mailing to ad-
dresses at the plants" Of the COM
pany at those places.
Brookes reiterated earlier Republic
charges that union representatives OF
the strikers we're permitted to ex-
anime packages submitted for delivery
to the company plants.
He said it was understood that "only
those packages which met with the ap-
proval of such representatives were
accepted or delivered"
Newspapers Held Refused.
I'VE are informed" he added, that
daily newspapers have been refused
under similar circumstances"
Brookes wrote Farley frankly that
the company needed the use OF the
mails in order to supply its picketed
workers with food and thus avoid the
possibility of violence which might
result should the company itself at
tempt to deliver the food through the
usual convenient channels
Such is our emergency he wrote,
THAT if your position and the sup
porting practice which you are quoted
as relying upon are founded in fear of
violence which may be committed upon
the facilities of your department or
your personnel, this corporation
ton for your department. in making
deliveries of mail to its plants at
Niles and at Warren. Ohio. and will
place both means Of transportation
and personnel to man the same at
your disposal"
The formal Republic demand was
disclosed shortly after Chairman Nc
kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, Of
the Senate Post ONCE Committee,
said he had asked the Post Office
Department for a report on the al
legged Interruptions of service in the
strike area.
McKellar Expects Report.
McKellar expected the report to
reach his committee Friday, when it
Is scheduled to take up a resolution
by Senator Bridges, Republican, of
New Hampshire calling for a Senate
inquiry. The Tennessee Senator said
Assistant Postmaster General HoWes
probably would appear before the
committee.
Brookes wrote Farley that his ex-
plantations of the reported condition
OF mail service at Warren and Niles
Is obviously unsatisfactory and unre-
sponsive in view Of the actual hap
penings."
He quoted Farley as having wired
to Tom Girdler. Republic Steel chair
man, that normal mail service was
being continued at the two towns.
Brookes said of the workers in the
plants that they had to be kept where
they were ''in order to secure to them
their right to continue on their jobs"
The convenience channels for the
regular transportation of food to them
are closed to us by picket lines, unless
we are willing to match force with
force" he continued.
"L0ath to Use Force"
This We are loath to do unless all
other means fail.
we are compelled, therefore. to
resort to every other method avail
able to us for our purpose. We have
presumed = that the United States
mails would afford us the same facili-
ties which are afforded generally
throughout the country
These have been denied and are
being denied to us through your action
(See MAIL, Page A-4)