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...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...
...milling, muttering, shying an occasional stone through plant windows. Suddenly some 300 men detached themselves from the main body and, while the mob set up a terrifying roar, battered their way through a line of 100 policemen, stormed through doors and windows, beat down the guards inside, commenced a Sit-Down. While 40 battlers licked their wounds, company officials promptly commenced negotiations with C. I. O.'s American Federation of Hosiery Workers...
...Kankakee, Ill., Circuit Judge W. R. Hunter asked six applicants for citizenship if they approved the Sit-Down. Luckily, all said "No," for the Judge announced that he would have denied their applications if they had commended that "form of anarchy...
Carried in a Boston paper yesterday as "circulating about the Capital" was the rumor that newly-appointed Law School Dean Landis had received a letter from President Conant cautioning the S.E.C. chief about "indiscreet" court plan and sit-down statements, which had cost the University $250,000 worth of endowments...
...scholarly qualities which characterized his predecessors, only time can determine. The corporation has acted formally and probably will have no disposition to reconsider the matter. But it is quite fair to say that many alumni have been disturbed since the appointment of Dean Landis by his remarks on the sit-down strike and on the court-enlargement program of the President...