Word: mills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sassy talk approved before publication by leaders of both camps and run in adjoining columns on the same page. Interviews were made by two News crack reporters, Carl Warren and Fred Pasley. One page last week quoted the wives of a striker and non-striker in a steel mill at Monroe, Mich...
First wife: "He [my husband] used to come home cooked like a rare hamburger. There are no bathhouses at the mill. He'd be so choked with acid and gas fumes and soot that half the time he coughed up his breakfast...
...crowd of spectators cheered lustily. The non-strikers in their cars rattled toward the mill. The pickets rallied to shower them with rocks, but another volley of grenades put them finally to rout, sent them fleeing down the road and across an orchard, many of them abandoning their cars. Members of the crowd joined in the chase and beat up several pickets whom they caught. Several others were rescued and released by the well-organized deputies. Taken into "protective custody" was Fred Mayberry, leader of the pickets who was seated in the car of the police chief...
Sixty-five miles away in Pontiac, the United Automobile Workers local union, some 15,000 strong, inflamed by the news of what had happened to their C.I.O. cousins, declared a general holiday and announced a mass march on Monroe to close the Newton steel mill. Governor Murphy advised the auto men's chief, Homer Martin, to advise the Pontiac union against it. He did, and the march was called...
Already Mr. Lewis had broadened the steel front by calling a strike in Bethlehem Steel's Cambria Mill at Johnstown, Pa., to cooperate with a strike which Railway Brotherhoods called on a little ten-mile railroad owned by Bethlehem and connecting its plant with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Boss Lewis proceeded to broaden the front still further by calling strikes in 17 coal mines owned by Republic, Youngstown and Bethlehem. The war which the Governors hoped to settle was getting bigger and uglier by the hour, yet up to them to settle it remained. For from the White House came...