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...week's Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision) that the potent Sit-Down was an illegal weapon, deplorable and unworthy. And it was the week when John Lewis' C.I.O. was being blamed, rightly or wrongly, for terroristic acts with dynamite at Bethlehem Steel's plant near Johnstown...
...Johnstown the dynamiting of the Bethlehem plant's water supply not only threw 6,000 men out of work once more but raised 2,000 ghosts. The great Quemahoning Dam above the city is eleven times as big as the one that let go in 1889 and if terrorists were abroad, where might they not strike next? Johnstown's loud Mayor Daniel J. Shields sent President Roosevelt an I-told-you-so telegram, called before him the district's two chief Labor leaders and warned them to get out of town or stay "at their own risk...
...more dangerous to the latter than Mayor Shields was a movement going forward among the Johnstown citizens who fortnight ago spent $50,000 advertising Johnstown's woes and protesting the interference of C.I.O. Last week it was learned that a guiding spirit among these citizens was John Price Jones, famed Manhattan publicist and fundraiser. A former resident of Johnstown, he had foregone his Harvard reunion to help formulate and promulgate nationally a "Johnstown Plan," calling for a chain of citizens' committees across the land to protect the right-to-work against exponents of the right-to-strike...
...businessmen, civic workers and Chambers of Commerce in more than 200 cities the Johnstown committee telegraphed: '"[We] desire to know if your community or group will send representatives to an organization meeting at a time and place to be decided for launching a national movement. Loyal Americans will not fail...
Governor Earle stepped in promptly when the steel strike spread to Bethlehem Steel's Cambria plant at Johnstown, Pa. First he sent in State police who with a firm hand arrested strikers as well as non-strikers to suppress violence. Since the mill continued to operate and the State police prevented the strikers from closing the mill by force, he was in the peculiar position for a Labor Governor, of "breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June...