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...Strike of 1937, biggest and bloodiest since 1919, entered upon a fresh, perhaps final, phase. From mill gate and picket line the major action shifted rearward to civil courts, State capitals, Congressional committee rooms and the editorial and advertising columns of the nation's press. Temporarily stalemated by martial law in two steel States, both Labor and Capital grasped desperately for the support of Public Opinion. And Public Opinion, without the support of which no major strike is ever won, seemed to be swinging slowly, imponderably to the side of the embattled steelmasters...
Since the Ohio constitution makes no provision for martial law the militiamen were nominally at the command of the local sheriffs. Sheriff Elser of Mahoning County, mortally feared & hated by Youngstown strikers, promptly clapped nearly 200 unionists in jail for carrying concealed weapons and on "suspicion." What was worse, he left them there without arraigning them until a judge, outraged by such "willful failure" to grant the prisoners their constitutional right to a hearing, gave the sheriff a thoroughgoing public reprimand...
Meantime Pennsylvania's Governor Earle was discontinuing the martial law by which he had closed Bethlehem's great Cambria plant in Johnstown. When it became apparent that the strike would not be settled by mediation. Governor Earle decided his enforced shut-down was no longer warranted. Having decided to permit the Bethlehem plant to reopen, having determined to prevent bloodshed by keeping State troopers on the scene, the Governor had only one course open: protect non-strikers from violence. Since law & order is seldom compatible with an effective strike, this "Labor Governor" too found himself in Labor...
Meantime John L. Lewis personally called off his 40,000 coal miners, Colonel Janeway disarmed Mayor Shields's vigilantes and Johnstown settled down to its first taste of martial law since the 1889 flood. C.I.O. picket lines, now unnecessary, were withdrawn. Despite Mayor Shields's cry of "usurpation," Colonel Janeway took over full police powers where they touched on the strike, sending the local police back to their beats or traffic posts. Otherwise the civil authority was not disturbed...
First thing that happened was martial law, declared by Iviza's fascist military commandant. Then there were raids, arrests of those who owned radios; then no more news from anywhere. As suspense deepened, rumors spread, money stopped circulating, two old people killed themselves. A plane appeared, flew over Santa Eulalia, was shot at by fascist soldiers. Few days later, another plane flew over. This one dropped leaflets which said that Government forces were coming to retake the island...