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Murray sent hefty Richard Frankensteen, national director of U.A.W.'s aviation division, to Inglewood, where Frankensteen broadcast a warning to workers to go back to work or forfeit affiliation with the C.I.O. Said he: "The infamous agitation, the vicious maneuvering of the Communist Party is apparent...
...reports that soldiers of the 15th Infantry were converging on Inglewood, stocky, slow-talking Leader Elmer Freitag cried: "Armed forces will not break our strike. Bombers can't be made with bayonets...
...Roosevelt, pursuant to the powers vested in me . . . direct that the Secretary of War immediately take possession." This week, on the morning set for reopening, as tear-gas bombs began to lob through jampacked streets around the plants and violence began to spurt, soldiers with fixed bayonets marched into Inglewood...
...shots shattered Inglewood's tense morning. Most serious casualty was one picket, who was reported cut by a bayonet. A few hours after two battalions of troops had taken over, workers were streaming through the gates, and Lieut. Colonel Charles E. Branshaw, in command, announced that the tie-up was over. Some 2,000 workers, about one-quarter normal complement for the shift, were back inside, limited production had been resumed. Unless there was a new outburst, North American would soon be back at top-speed operation...
Ships & Timber. North of Inglewood, in San Francisco, striking machinists still sulked. Half a billion dollars worth of naval construction had been tied up for a month. While Franklin Roosevelt smacked down on aircraft strikes with one hand, with the other he summarily beckoned Harvey W. Brown, machinists' chief, to the White House. Results of that conference were awaited this week...