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...from Port Washington three days later climbed the high-sided Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia for her sixth Atlantic crossing via Newfoundland and Ireland. Including a stop at Montreal, she got to her base at Foynes, Ireland in 20 hr. 27 min. flying time, just as her sister ship Cambria was getting set to reverse...
...June quarter, 1936. Embattled Youngstown Sheet & Tube managed to clear $2,000,000, off 20% from the June quarter the year before and considerably less than half what it made in the March quarter this year. Bethlehem Steel, with only one plant affected, the Cambria works in Johnstown, Pa., made a relatively good showing- $10,000,000 for the quarter, $18,000,000 for the half. Last year the company earned $3,400,000 in the June quarter, $4,000,000 in the six months. Chicago's Inland Steel, the sixth and least enthusiastic member of "Little Steel," reported...
Meantime Pennsylvania's Governor Earle was discontinuing the martial law by which he had closed Bethlehem's great Cambria plant in Johnstown. When it became apparent that the strike would not be settled by mediation. Governor Earle decided his enforced shut-down was no longer warranted. Having decided to permit the Bethlehem plant to reopen, having determined to prevent bloodshed by keeping State troopers on the scene, the Governor had only one course open: protect non-strikers from violence. Since law & order is seldom compatible with an effective strike, this "Labor Governor" too found himself in Labor...
Governor Earle stepped in promptly when the steel strike spread to Bethlehem Steel's Cambria plant at Johnstown, Pa. First he sent in State police who with a firm hand arrested strikers as well as non-strikers to suppress violence. Since the mill continued to operate and the State police prevented the strikers from closing the mill by force, he was in the peculiar position for a Labor Governor, of "breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June...
...Governor promptly ordered the Cambria works shut down "until further notice." Hopping mad, President Grace sent a sizzling protest to the Governor, warning that "the responsibility for the great losses which our employes, their families and this company and its stock-holders are bound to suffer . . . will be upon you and the Commonwealth." Smoke continued to belch from the stacks of the Cambria works...