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...Youngstown continued in a state of siege, and when a Saturday crowd of women strike sympathizers started heckling Sheriff Ralph Elser's police cordon at the Republic Steel plant, a riot started in which police tear gas was answered by birdshot and bullets from thousands of unionists. Two men were killed, 25 persons wounded, including Mary Heaton Vorse, liberal writer...
...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...
...Ohio, Governor Martin Luther Davey called his own meeting. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic and President Frank Purnell of Youngstown declined to attend in person but sent deputies to meet with Philip Murray and John Owens of the Steel Workers. Governor Davey proposed a compromise: let the companies sign a labor contract, and let the union promise not to demand the closed shop or checkoff. The meeting was adjourned without result but another was arranged for this week...
...Mill at Johnstown, Pa., to cooperate with a strike which Railway Brotherhoods called on a little ten-mile railroad owned by Bethlehem and connecting its plant with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Boss Lewis proceeded to broaden the front still further by calling strikes in 17 coal mines owned by Republic, Youngstown and Bethlehem. The war which the Governors hoped to settle was getting bigger and uglier by the hour, yet up to them to settle it remained. For from the White House came no sign that Franklin Roosevelt would lift a Federal finger...