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Meantime in Indiana Governor Townsend patched up a truce between the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and Youngstown Sheet & Tube, pending a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board on the question of signed contracts. Unlike the Inland Steel truce, in which both sides made definite agreements with the Governor, this truce was informal. After the company made a few changes in its labor policy regarding vacations, the S. W. O. C. called off its pickets in Indiana Harbor, broke out 30 barrels of beer for a "victory" celebration as 7,000 workers prepared to return to the last closed plant...
Shortly he emerged from an Indianapolis hotel room to announce that he had settled the C.I.O.-Inland dispute, at least temporarily, by getting each side to pledge certain things to him though not to each other. The truce was to last until the National Labor Relations Board should give an official ruling. Inland's final pledge was not to discriminate between strikers and non-strikers when the march back-to-work began. C.I.O.'s regional director, Van A. Bittner, telephoned the East Chicago pickets: "For God's sake don't let anything interfere...
...persuaded to go into banking by the elder George F. Baker, who made him First National's president in 1922. Humorous, levelheaded, liberal, in 20 years he has used his talent for public pleading only once, but then effectively, when he swayed U. S. bankers into a truce with the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Persistently modest about his second profession, he remarked on his retirement last winter: "There are four or five men in there who are better bankers than...
...peddler placidly sold ice cream bricks to the combatants. One striker went into combat eating ice cream with his left hand, swinging a club with his right. The riot lasted for an hour and a half. Finally a union leader rushed to a sound truck, and proposed a truce: the canneries would stay closed for the day if the pickets would disperse. They did, but some 50 men were injured, including John Drake, expected to die of head wounds, two others in danger of losing eyes, many peppered with slugs...
...spark of humanity relieved the savage horror of the civil war last week. With Rightist corpses strewn over the El Pardo sector, just northwest of Madrid, General Franco passed word from trench to trench to ask the Leftists for a brief truce during which he might bury his dead. The Leftists gave the cease-fire order and Franco's stretcher-bearers gathered up crumpled bodies while guns in other sectors boomed a gruesome requiem...