Word: bethlehem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last admitted (after the preceding week's Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision) that the potent Sit-Down was an illegal weapon, deplorable and unworthy. And it was the week when John Lewis' C.I.O. was being blamed, rightly or wrongly, for terroristic acts with dynamite at Bethlehem Steel's plant near Johnstown...
...Diplomatic Illness." Inland Steel Co. had followed throughout the tactics of its bigger independent allies-Bethlehem, Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Last week, like them, it was prepared to reopen its East Chicago plant without any C.I.O. agreement, a sure invitation to violence unless Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana would send troops to the East Chicago area. Governor Townsend refused to do so. He was reported sick abed at home with tonsillitis...
...Johnstown the dynamiting of the Bethlehem plant's water supply not only threw 6,000 men out of work once more but raised 2,000 ghosts. The great Quemahoning Dam above the city is eleven times as big as the one that let go in 1889 and if terrorists were abroad, where might they not strike next? Johnstown's loud Mayor Daniel J. Shields sent President Roosevelt an I-told-you-so telegram, called before him the district's two chief Labor leaders and warned them to get out of town or stay "at their own risk...
Just before Governor Earle withdrew martial law, a Johnstown "Citizens' Committee" & a "Steel Workers Committee" inserted in some 40 newspapers a full-page advertisement captioned WE PROTEST. Relating that the closing of the Bethlehem plant was costing the community $500,000 in weekly payrolls, the advertisement thundered: "It is no part of the functions of American Government to force-or to permit anyone else to force-the individual worker into surrendering his Constitutional rights. . . . If this can happen in Johnstown it can happen anywhere else...
Governor Earle stepped in promptly when the steel strike spread to Bethlehem Steel's Cambria plant at Johnstown, Pa. First he sent in State police who with a firm hand arrested strikers as well as non-strikers to suppress violence. Since the mill continued to operate and the State police prevented the strikers from closing the mill by force, he was in the peculiar position for a Labor Governor, of "breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June...