Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, capable of making a decision on my own initiative. I am not a candidate for mayor. ... I like the Senate. Particularly I like the group I am with in the Senate, the people who are opposing the Supreme Court Plan...
...allow non-strikers to pass. The city election commission polled the mill workers on the question of returning to work. The returns were 856 for, 20 against. Although S.W.O.C. advised its members not to vote, this was a clear majority of the plant's 1,322 workers. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs announced that the plant would be opened by force if necessary. With the cooperation of the local American Legion whose members undertook to patrol the city, the entire police force helped open the plant. Several hundred nonstriking workmen in automobiles with horns blowing, as well as men, women...
...Youngstown, Ohio sheriffs' deputies made their first serious attempt to disarm pickets who held possession of roads around the steel plants. Meeting one night in Youngstown while pickets under police guard were demonstrating in the street below, the Youngstown city council by vote of 6-to-1 granted Mayor Lionel Evans full authority to increase the police force and buy as much additional equipment as he deemed necessary to preserve order in the city...
Beardless youngsters, grizzled laborers, husky War veterans, all toting guns, plus police in uniform, made up Mayor Knaggs' motley army. On a mile-long causeway, pickets with clubs and with old pots for helmets, accompanied by their determined womenfolk armed with sticks and rocks defied the oncoming enemy. The police chief parleyed at length with the pickets, trying to induce them to withdraw. Meanwhile Governor Murphy, who had given no encouragement to Mayor Knaggs' determination to open the plant, was on the long distance telephone urging the police and pickets not to resort to violence. The police chief...
...Homer Martin felt he must save his union's face. He called for a mass meeting at Monroe of union men from Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Mayor Knaggs, who already had a large part of his aroused constituents under arms, appealed vociferously to Governor Murphy for militia and State police to protect his city from the expected mob. The Governor finally arranged that the meeting should be held at a State park three miles from Monroe, promised to have 350 guardsmen on hand to keep the union men out of the anti-union town and also see that...