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...Ohio, Governor Martin Luther Davey called his own meeting. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic and President Frank Purnell of Youngstown declined to attend in person but sent deputies to meet with Philip Murray and John Owens of the Steel Workers. Governor Davey proposed a compromise: let the companies sign a labor contract, and let the union promise not to demand the closed shop or checkoff. The meeting was adjourned without result but another was arranged for this week...
...Girdler [Chairman of Republic Steel] is a heavily armed monomaniac with murderous tendencies, who has gone berserk. Potter [William C. Potter,* chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.] and Grace [President Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel] have turned him loose upon the unarmed steel workers...
...Girdler should be disarmed and restrained by the Government before he turns the steel districts into a bloody shambles and looses all the pent-up forces of human passion...
High Words. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic recently obtained a vote of confidence from his industry when he was elected head of the Iron & Steel Institute instead of William A. Irvin of U. S. Steel (which signed a contract with S.W.O.C. without a fight). Ever an outspoken man, Tom Girdler expressed himself freely on the situation last week. He insisted that 21,000 of his 50,000 workers were still on the job, that his mills were shipping 8,000 tons of steel daily. Reporters asked about a suit started by Stockholder Robert W. Northrup of Toledo, who complained that...
Equally rough were the words of Philip Murray, chairman of S.W.O.C., addressing a strike meeting in Warren: "I'm here to tell Tom tonight that he's not going to get much more ore. Girdler is not a steel man. He was chief of the Jones & Laughlin police force before he was dragged by the bootstraps to be president of the Republic. He's a company cop, nothing more and nothing less, and there's no company policeman big enough to whip...