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...Follette report was by no means the last chapter in John L. Lewis' unsuccessful siege of "Little Steel." As far as Mr. Lewis was concerned the strike was still on, except against Inland Steel and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube plants in the Chicago area where Indiana's Governor Townsend had patched up truces. There was heavy rioting last week at Republic Steel plants in Cleveland and in Cumberland, Md. But some of Mr. Lewis' coal miners returned to a Sheet & Tube captive mine last week, and reopening of all captive mines was expected shortly- except those...
Your description of the Youngstown Steel Strike included a list of weapons picked up by the strikers (TIME, July 5). Among the ones listed was a machete. This same machete was probably the most villainous looking item in the photograph which appeared in a number of papers and in the magazine LIFE...
...WATERS Sales Department The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Youngstown, Ohio...
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...
...Ohio-Three confessed dynamiters were arrested at Warren. A C.I.Organizer called Gus Hall (real name: Arvo G. Halberg) who ran for councilman in Youngstown two years ago on the Communist ticket, was sought all week by police as the "brains" of a gang of wreckers. Blasts in Canton had ruptured a water main and wrecked a culvert. Into the Warren station to give himself up walked Gus Hall, accusing Republic Steel and its allies of an "unadulterated frame-up." Meantime Republic's plant at Canton where some 2,000 workers had been interned for a month was reopened...