Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was also a week in which, with strike action halted, C.I.O. could consolidate its gains, refresh its leadership, impose discipline. And it was the week in which, though halted elsewhere, C.I.O. at last cracked the Inland sector of "Little Steel's" united front...
...Diplomatic Illness." Inland Steel Co. had followed throughout the tactics of its bigger independent allies-Bethlehem, Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Last week, like them, it was prepared to reopen its East Chicago plant without any C.I.O. agreement, a sure invitation to violence unless Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana would send troops to the East Chicago area. Governor Townsend refused to do so. He was reported sick abed at home with tonsillitis...
Shortly he emerged from an Indianapolis hotel room to announce that he had settled the C.I.O.-Inland dispute, at least temporarily, by getting each side to pledge certain things to him though not to each other. The truce was to last until the National Labor Relations Board should give an official ruling. Inland's final pledge was not to discriminate between strikers and non-strikers when the march back-to-work began. C.I.O.'s regional director, Van A. Bittner, telephoned the East Chicago pickets: "For God's sake don't let anything interfere...
Successful though he was with Inland, Governor Townsend was curtly rebuffed by Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Frank Purnell, whose Indiana plants had been closed down. He would never, wired the steelman, make any agreement with C.I.O. directly or indirectly or ''through the Governor's office." The company announced the reopening of its Indiana Harbor mill but when the Governor sent no protective troops, the gates remained locked...
Jewish sources published hastily drawn maps which differed considerably. All agreed, however, that the Jewish State will be in the north of Palestine, mainly along the Mediterranean; that the Arab State will be in the south, mainly inland; that His Majesty's Government will retain for themselves a corridor running inland from the port of Jaffa to such Biblical holy places as Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Some Jewish insiders opined that this British corridor will bend north at Jerusalem and extend all the way to Nazareth, others were sure it would stop at Jerusalem. Most agreed that Judea will...