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Five-score desperate men crouched inside the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. plant in North Chicago one dawn last week as up to the gates marched a motley army of 125 other desperate men armed with guns, nightsticks, baseball bats, tear gas bombs, battering rams. The besieging army was the Law-Sheriff Lawrence C. Doolittle of Lake County, Ill., with policemen and deputies...
...Lewis and his C. I. O. are trying to enlist all the steel workers in the land. Circuit Judge Ralph J. Dady had promptly issued a temporary order for them to evacuate. But the example of the automobile sit-downers in Flint (TIME, Feb. 15) had taught the Fansteel men to pay no attention to the court. Just as Flint's Judge Paul V. Gadola had done, Judge Dady issued a writ for the sitters' arrest. This time there was no Governor Murphy to tell the sheriff to ignore...