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...police before Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). In Chicago a "mass funeral" was staged for three of them by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Meanwhile the violence of the S. W. O. C. strike against three big independent steel com- panies-Republic, Youngstown and Inland -subsided. In Detroit, where fortnight ago United Automobile Workers organizers were beaten at the entrance to Ford's River Rouge plant, the fighting shifted to court. On both fronts the combatants took advantage of the lull to maneuver for position. On both sides the sense of injury grew...
...Last week the United Automobile Workers were storming at the gates of Motors' inner citadel, Ford Motor Co. The Steel Work ers Organizing Committee, having cap tured biggest U. S. Steel and most of the small fry, was pounding at the defense of three big steel independents: Republic, Youngstown, Inland. On both fronts there was blood and brutality. On one there was Death...
...including Crucible Steel and American Steel Foundries. Just before the Institute began its deliberations, S.W.O.C. took a more drastic step. It was not yet ready to call strikes against big Bethlehem and National Steel, but it issued a strike call in the plants of three other big independents: Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland. Promptly 27 steel plants, most of them in Ohio and Illinois, were shut down, some 75,000 men quit work, and 15% of the Steel industry shut up shop in the midst of its busiest season in years, an ideal strike season from Labor...
...Said Youngstown: "The signed agreement demanded of us could not be enforced by us because it would be a one-sided instrument whereunder the employer alone would possess legal responsibility. ... The wage rates requested have been and are in effect. The company's vacation plan is more liberal to the employes than the one proposed by the C. I. 0. The hours of work requested have been and are in effect. The company has been, now is and will continue to be willing to meet and negotiate with representatives chosen by its employes for all purposes of collective bargaining...
...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...