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...Chicago last week, for the first time since a strike was called against three big independent steel companies - Republic, Youngstown, Inland-the basic law which is supposed to forestall strikes was finally invoked. Van A. Bittner, regional director of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, formally accused Inland Steel Co. before the Labor Board of "unfair labor practices" under the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Thus, after 70,000 men had been out of work for three weeks, the one legal question at the bottom of the strike was belatedly raised...
...unionists were permitted to fight it out. The prospect stirred two Governors who had previously kept their hands carefully in their pockets, into cautious action. In Indiana, Governor Clifford Townsend called meetings of steel operators and union leaders to see whether he could not settle the strike at Inland and Youngstown plants close to the Illinois line. This gesture accomplished nothing and Indiana's Governor pondered calling the Governors of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio to join him in a concerted effort...
...tastes -most of them also sellers of the kind of goods of which the Government buys quantities: Bethlehem Steel Co. (20 copies); Automatic Voting Machine Corp. (12); Monolith and Medusa Portland Cement Companies. Hammermill Paper Co. (10 each); California Portland Cement Co., Deere & Co. (8 each); The Carborundum Co., Inland Steel Co., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (4 each). Other bibliophiles: Walter P. Chrysler (50 copies), Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, International Association of Machinists, American Federated Hose Workers of Philadelphia (4 each); Charles M. Schwab...
...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 deeper...
...Leader Bridges could organize the warehousemen, he would drive a wedge inland and stand a good chance of becoming the biggest Labor figure in the West. If Leader Beck could organize the warehousemen he would pin Bridges to the waterfront. No holds have been barred in this battle for supremacy. And to fight Leader Beck who has the A. F. of L. behind him, Leader Bridges has turned to aid from...