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...among such of their workers as were not actively allied with the S. W. 0. C. strike. They counted on aroused public feeling to assure protection for men going back to work. The Youngstown plants were entirely shut down, in charge of company maintenance men. Republic plants were in partial operation. All were in a state of close siege by strikers. Around the Republic plant at Warren, Ohio, the roads for miles were taken over by strikers who stopped traffic of every description. They called it "Strike Law." Airplanes, making regular flights to deliver food to the plants at Warren...
...Republic Steel plants remained in partial operation. These as well as Youngstown plants which were held by company maintenance men, were soon virtually in a state of siege. The size and isolation of the plants, which made sit-down strikes virtually impossible because of the difficulty of provisioning strikers (TIME, March 1), made equally difficult the job of feeding company men in the plants. Soon Republie had airplanes shuttling back and forth, landing in the yard of one plant, dropping food on others where landing was not possible. Airplanes of the strikers performed fancy aerobatics trying to drive...
...depression, the number of the unemployed mounted to unprecedented heights. Often the average was more than ten million; at times a peak was attained of 16 million or more. Disaster to the breadwinner meant disaster to dependents. Accordingly the roll of the unemployed, itself formidable enough, was only a partial roll of the destitute or needy. The fact developed quickly that the States were unable to give the requisite relief. The problem had become national in area and dimensions. ... It is too late today for the argument to be heard with tolerance that in a crisis so extreme...
Three More Blows. If the President's aim was to get conservative oldsters off the Court, the Van Devanter retirement was a partial success, but there were reasons for believing that his chit from the Justice gave a sour taste to his breakfast. Every President in his second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown...
...Federal District Court he pleaded that he was being held without justification, lost the case. Early this year he won a partial victory. The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the lower court unjustified in holding him for larceny, but justified in holding him for extradition on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He next appealed to the Supreme Court, without success. The U. S. State Department issued an extradition order, and last week Captain Hatfield reluctantly entered the custody of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. As he set off for Ottawa to await trial he hoped...