Evening star., 1938-07-13
JEER|NG THRONC
PR0TESTSN.L,R.B, B,
5000 Mill in SteubenviIIe
and Burn Effigy of Boards
Examiner.
Bv the Associated Press.

STEUBENV1LLE, Ohio, July ia
laughing. jeering throng of apparently
5000 persons milled in front of the
Federal Building today. Haunting BAN
ners attacking the National Labor
Board and shouting protests against
the expulsion Of Wierton Steel Co.
attorney from the boards 1l-month-
long hearing against the company.
A mass parade from the steel mill
town Of Wierton, w. Va, to Steuben-
vile. was abandoned after the transfer
Of the hearing to Pittsburgh last night,
but 200 steelworkers came across the
Ohio River in buses and automobiles
to join several hundred townspeople.
Although visibly disappointed by the
SHIFT Of the hearing, which one leader
said ruined" the planned demonstra-
ton, the crowd cheered Clyde Arm
strong. company attorney, barred from
the hearing by Examiner E. Grandson
Smith, and shouted Justify as Mr..
Smith was hanged in efngy from 4
hotel window.
Armstrong Lauds People.
Hoisted to the shoulders Of two
brawny steelworkers on the steps of a
hotel facing the Federal Building, Mr..
Armstrong cried:
I'VE never would have been able to
carry on over there (waving a hand at
the Federal Building) If it hadn't been
for fine crowd-a group Of people
like you"
The crowd roared as the straw
stuffed. overall-clad dummy bearing
a placard "Grandstand Smith" was
dropped on q rope from the second
hoor wondow Of the hotel.
Two long banners, Tapping in the
breeze above the street. declared:
I'VE Want Armstrong Reinstated."
Three Cheers for Armstrong. to
He'll With Polier."
1sadore Polier is An attorney for the
Labor Board at the Weirton hearing
and has clashed frequently with COM
pany counsel.
Banners Cite Americanism.
Other banners, carried by the
throng, read:
I'VE Want Armstrong, Not the
Reds"
I'VE Are Americans and Ask for
American Treatment"
rs Smith an Examiner or q Die
tator?"
The crowd broke up q few minutes
after Mr.. Armstrong spoke, and the
Weirton group headed home, less than
an hour after they arrived here.
Stories in both Steubenville and
Weirton. which had announced they
would close for the demopstration, re-
mained open.
Leaders Of the Security League, rep
resenting business and civic organi-
cations in Weirton and the neighbor-
ing community Of Holidays Cove, had
predicted 10000 would join the march
before the hearing was moved.
Ask Armstrong Reinstated.
In Pittsburgh counsel for the COM
pany telegraphed an appeal to the
National Labor Relations Board in
Washington for the reinstatement of
Mr.. Armstrong, asserting his expul-
sion seriously interfered with and
hampered" the preparation and pres
entation Of the companys defense.
They declared the examiners ruling
was grossly and palpably unfair" to
the company and requested adjourn
ment of the hearing, scheduled to re-
sumo tomorrow. until the appeal had
been considered. A formal applica-
ton for Mr.. Armstrong; reinstate-
ment, they said, would be filed later
in Washington.
Reject C. I. o. Bargaining.
Weirton Steel, subsidiary of Eru-
est T. Weir's National Steel Corp
one Of the group Of little steel" cor
porations that has persist entity refused
to bargain with the G.. I. O.-amliated
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
lis the dominant industry in this
district. It is charged with unfair
labor practices.
Claude Conway, head Of the Weir
ton Employees Security League-de-
scribed by the s. w. O. c. as q COM
pany union"-said that "even If Trial
Examiner Smith hasn't got the courage
to stay here and witness the real senti-
ment of this community, this COM
munity is going to go right ahead and
show what it thinks Of the boards un-
fairness"
Mr.. Armstrong was barred from the
hearing after, MIR. Smith said, he
failed to show repentance or remorse"
for defiant. contemptuous and con-
tumacious" behavior.