INDUSTRIAL STRIFE

Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 11

INDUSTRIAL STRIFE

CONDITIONS IN AMERICA FEAR OF OPEN HOSTILITIES Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright MONROE (Michigan), June 8. Fearing open hostilities between the Republic Steel Corporation and the Committee for Industrial Organisation, the mayor (Mr Knaggs) called on citizens with military experience to enlist as special policemen and permit the Republic subsidiary to be reopened. The plant- was closed as the result of the strike.

Mr Knaggs alleged that 10,000 C. 1.0. workers were planning to flock to Monroe from Detroit and Toledo. He hinted that the special policemen will carry rifles.

Meanwhile minor outbreaks have occurred at Youngstown. When the sheriffs ordered pickets to disarm a crowd threatened to march upon Youngstown gaol and deliver three rioters who had been arrested. The crowd desisted in the face of a cordon of guards armed with rifles and tear gas. At Chicago 39 C. 1.0. men who held a “ sit-down ” strike at tho Fansteel Corporation plant in February in defiance of a court order were fined up to IjOOOdol and received terms of imprisonment up to eight months. THE CHICAGO CLASH EIGHTH VICTIM DIES. CHICAGO, June 8. The eighth victim of the clash between the police and striking steel workers has died. A mass meeting of the Citizens’ Rights Committee and the Chicago Church Federation adopted a resolution demanding an official investigation into the clash. , POWER SHUT OFF FLINT STRIKERS ROLL SWITCHES. ' ' NEW YORK, June 9. (Received June 10, at 11.35 a.m.) .The striking employees of the Flint Power Company pulled out the distribution switches, shutting off all electric current for the city of 165,000 people, except that used for hospitals, sanitation plants, and dairies, resulting in the closing of six G.M.C. plants, employing 42.000 men. The officials of the power union affiliated with the U.A.W. said the strike was likely to spread throughout the entire Saginaw Valley, in which 350.000 persons were served by power. Pickets are stationed about the power distribution station.' ’' Later the commercial power was shut off from the remainder of the valley, including Saginaw Bay city, closing four more G.M.C. plants. An earlier shut off halted trackless trams and traffic signals in Flint. The homes throughout the valley, with tho exception of Flint, are not affected.

Governor Murphy, who is visiting Pittsburgh, said he . would fly to Flint unless there was an immediate settlement. “The current must be turned on before nightfall. The people of Flint must not endure a night of darkness. I : personally guarantee to prevent it.” TROUBLE IN LANSING NEW YORK, June 8. (Received Juno 10, at 8 a.m.) Lansing was paralysed for a second day, when five pickets who were arrested faced charges of misdemeanour. [A previous message stated: “ As a protest against the arrest of strike pickets the united automobile workers in Lansing (Michigan) called a labour ‘ holiday, 1 which paralysed industrial plants, bus systems, and taxicabs. The main arteries were blockaded by rows of cars and crowds. Union members manned’the traffic intersections, directing the milling crowds. After the demonstration had started the local president of the United Automobile Workers’- Association announced that an agreement had been, reached for the release of the pickets.”]