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Rounding out its first full month last week, the Steel Strike of 1937, biggest and bloodiest since 1919, entered upon a fresh, perhaps final, phase. From mill gate and picket line the major action shifted rearward to civil courts, State capitals, Congressional committee rooms and the editorial and advertising columns of the nation's press. Temporarily stalemated by martial law in two steel States, both Labor and Capital grasped desperately for the support of Public Opinion. And Public Opinion, without the support of which no major strike is ever won, seemed to be swinging slowly, imponderably to the side...
...tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...
...Roosevelt to intervene more directly and urgently last week than he has in any strike since he entered the White House. In Flint, after the riots and injunction against sit-downers which began the week (TIME, Feb. 8), the Motor War of 1937 threatened momentarily to explode in the bloodiest labor battle of U. S. history...
...found it necessary, in a recent talk on the Spanish situation, to deal only with Spain's relation to the rest of Europe and not at all with the government at Madrid. Spain is having no conventional uprising of the Latin-American variety; it is a revolution in the bloodiest and most violent sense of the word. Newspapermen Harry Gannes and Theodore Repard have assembled a background of Spanish history and recordel a series of facts that are essential to an understanding of the struggle in Spain today...
...Home stead at 4 a. m. on July 6. The workers, massed along the river with their women & children, were ready for them. As the first detectives stepped ashore, someone banged a gun. At that the Pinkerton army fired a volley into the crowd and one of the bloodiest battles in U. S. Labor history was on. It lasted until 5 o'clock that afternoon. When it was over three detectives, seven workers lay dead...