Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monroe. Biggest demonstration of public opinion took place at the town of Monroe, Mich., where Newton Steel Co., a small subsidiary of Republic, had been closed by the strike. Pickets held the one road leading to the mill and refused to allow non-strikers to pass. The city election commission polled the mill workers on the question of returning to work. The returns were 856 for, 20 against. Although S.W.O.C. advised its members not to vote, this was a clear majority of the plant's 1,322 workers. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs announced that the plant would be opened...
...Fred Mayberry, leader of the pickets who was seated in the car of the police chief so no one would do him harm. Cars abandoned by the pickets were smashed up and shoved into the river by volunteer vigilantes. Such was the first reopening of a strike-closed steel plant...
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...
There 10,000 strike sympathizers assembled, heard Van Bittner of S.WT.O.C. cry: "They say in Monroe they want to protect their homes. We don't want to destroy their homes. . . . But by God they'll pay for what they did at the Republic Steel Corp. We are going to make those hoodlums in Monroe just as decent as any other American citizens...
Governors. The growth of anti-strike sentiment in Michigan was a blow to union hopes. Strike Leader Bittner let it be known that $1,300,000 had already been spent on the steel drive. The union had won a point when Mayor Burton of Cleveland revoked Republic's permit for use of the airport from which planes had provisioned its strike-bound plants in Ohio. It hoped to have non-strikers ousted from those plants by appeals for enforcement of sanitary regulations forbidding the use of mills as living quarters. In Chicago, however, Republic got around a similar maneuver...