Word: youngstowners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wreck's start Republic's Tom Mercer Girdler and Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Frank Purnell had announced the reopening of their plants in the Youngstown district. Picket lines were hastily strengthened, C.I.O. reinforcements summoned from nearby industrial centres. A pitched battle seemed inevitable. To Secretary of Labor Perkins went a plea from John L. Lewis to "prevent this contemplated butchery." Said Mr. Lewis: "I told her that sornewhere there should be a power that could be exercised tonight to restrain this madman Girdler...
Since the Ohio constitution makes no provision for martial law the militiamen were nominally at the command of the local sheriffs. Sheriff Elser of Mahoning County, mortally feared & hated by Youngstown strikers, promptly clapped nearly 200 unionists in jail for carrying concealed weapons and on "suspicion." What was worse, he left them there without arraigning them until a judge, outraged by such "willful failure" to grant the prisoners their constitutional right to a hearing, gave the sheriff a thoroughgoing public reprimand...
...Ethiopian war observations into a book called Blood and Ink and who learned about sit-down strikes in France last year, is covering the Labor front for Hearst's Universal Service. His itinerary since January: Flint, Detroit, Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome and for the law in Philadelphia and Washington. His most famous specialty...
Stocks of the struck steel companies, however, suffered no more than others. Bethlehem was down from the year's high of $105.50 to $76.50 per share; Youngstown Sheet & Tube from $102 to $74.75; Republic from $47.25 to $31.25; Inland from $131.25 to $94.75. Yet U. S. Steel was also off from its high of $126.50 to $92.50 per share and Chrysler sold below $100 for the first time in more than a year. Most spectacular break was in Auburn Automobile, which crashed from $23 per share to $13.50 in four days...
...last fortnight the zealous trio of churchmen made a quick dash into the great and grim labor war in Steel (see p. 11). At Struthers, Ohio, while Monsignor O'Toole and Father Hensler looked approvingly on, Father Rice stood in the rain, harangued encouragement at strikers of Youngstown Sheet & Tube's coke plant. Ohio priests who had kept mum on or disapproved the C.I.O. were discomfited to learn that once more the Radical Alliance had the approval of higher church authorities, obtaining permission to invade the diocese from Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Back in Pittsburgh last week...