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...Chicago last week, for the first time since a strike was called against three big independent steel companies - Republic, Youngstown, Inland-the basic law which is supposed to forestall strikes was finally invoked. Van A. Bittner, regional director of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, formally accused Inland Steel Co. before the Labor Board of "unfair labor practices" under the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Thus, after 70,000 men had been out of work for three weeks, the one legal question at the bottom of the strike was belatedly raised...
There 10,000 strike sympathizers assembled, heard Van Bittner of S.WT.O.C. cry: "They say in Monroe they want to protect their homes. We don't want to destroy their homes. . . . But by God they'll pay for what they did at the Republic Steel Corp. We are going to make those hoodlums in Monroe just as decent as any other American citizens...
...steel strike with $60,000; rough & ready Socialist Leo Krzycki of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, another big industrial union, which contributed $100,000 to the same strike; Lee Pressman, "purged" from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1934, who had joined the committee as counsel. President Van A. Bittner of the West Virginia miners' union was told off to direct the assault on non-union Steel in the Chicago area. The South was assigned to William Mitch, district mine president of Alabama. To Clinton S. Golden, onetime official of the National Labor Relations Board, was assigned direct charge...
...other affair was caused by the curiosity of Pilot Cy Bittner, flying west from Albany to Buffalo with an empty mail-ship on the Colonial Western route. He deviated from his route to circle twice over Auburn prison on a clear night last week. Below him, 'tremendous excitement . prevailed. The whole town, citizens, State Police, prison guards, still tense from a frightful, abortive prison rebellion last year (TIME, Aug. 5), believed that some powerful gang was attempting to drop firearms within the prison yard to incite another riot. Machine guns and rifles were turned on the plane...
Then Van A. Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers, had laid upon Mr. Schwab's and Mr. Rockefeller's interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven...