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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...
...kingfish in the heavy industry pond, voluntarily began signing contracts with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee (TIME, March 15). The small fry of the steel industry rapidly followed suit. Only possible obstacles to complete organization of Steel were the major independents, Bethlehem, Crucible, Inland, Jones & Laughlin, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, American Rolling Mill. Fortnight ago the storm broke over them with a brief 36-hour strike in Jones & Laughlin, which was settled when the management agreed to stake all on a labor election to determine by majority vote whether...
...guessing. At 6 a. m. one morning the balloting began and continued till 1 a. m. next morning. Only excitement took place off-stage when Philip Murray, head of S. W. O. C., charged that Republic Steel had sent seven company policemen, some of them formerly employed by Jones & Laughlin, to interfere with the election. Jones & Laughlin denied knowledge of their presence, Republic said they were merely sent as observers, but warrants were issued for their arrest. Meanwhile at Pittsburgh and neighboring Aliquippa, 24,000 of Jones & Laughlin's 27,000 workers filed quietly through the National Labor Relations...
...Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation is gratified that such an important issue has been so amicably settled by peaceful and democratic methods, under the provisions of the Wagner...
...night last week at grim Aliquippa, Pa., 25 miles down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, flames leaping up from great Jones & Laughlin blast furnaces flickered over the tense, expectant faces of thousands of men, women and children massed outside the five-mile-long plant's gates. Sharp at 11 p. m. came the deadline which Jones & Laughlin's C. I. O. unionists had set when they voted to strike unless the corporation signed a union contract. Marching out of J. & L. plants both in Aliquippa and Pittsburgh, the unionists shut down the nation's fourth largest steel...