Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand was assisted a boilermaker from another company. He said he had gone to the Republic plant to inquire for his brother, who was inside. A policeman refused him permission to enter. Testified the boilermaker: "Then an officer at my left cursed and said, 'Stand back you so-&-so or I'll fill you full of lead. . . . ' Those...
...preceding 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...
...Diplomatic Illness." Inland Steel Co. had followed throughout the tactics of its bigger independent allies-Bethlehem, Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Last week, like them, it was prepared to reopen its East Chicago plant without any C.I.O. agreement, a sure invitation to violence unless Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana would send troops to the East Chicago area. Governor Townsend refused to do so. He was reported sick abed at home with tonsillitis...
...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...
...week by police as the "brains" of a gang of wreckers. Blasts in Canton had ruptured a water main and wrecked a culvert. Into the Warren station to give himself up walked Gus Hall, accusing Republic Steel and its allies of an "unadulterated frame-up." Meantime Republic's plant at Canton where some 2,000 workers had been interned for a month was reopened, and 3,000 of Governor Davey's militia stood by in Cleveland for the reopening of four more Republic plants...