U.S.A. STRIKERS

Grey River Argus, 15 June 1937, Page 5

U.S.A. STRIKERS

CRITICAL SITUATION At Steel Plant (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received June 13, 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 12. The Johnstown Steel Works strike has spread to Belthlehem works, curtailing'the operations at plants employing fifteen thousand men. Hundreds of pickets ar o massed at ! the plant gates. The Union demands a contract ior wages and hours, aud also their recognition. MONROE, June 12. Mr Frank Murphy, Governor of Michigan, has ordered 300 militiamen and 100 State police here to maintain order at a big Union protest meeting to-morrow. Outsiders who had no business in Monroe were prohibited from entering! the city. STRIKERS BLOCKADE MAILS. WASHINGTON, June 12. A Senate Committee has ordered a broad inquiry into charges of violence, coercion and interference with the mails in the steel strike areas. Senator Bridges alleged that food and mails have not been delivered to the workers in the strike-bound plants. The Assistani-Postmaster countered the charges with the remark: “We are complying with the .law by way of refusing to risk the postmen’s lives.” VICTUALLING PLANE FIRED AT. rAtia. & N.Z. Cable CLEVELAND, June 11. A victualling aero plane, when taking off at an air port, after returning from the Republic. Steel Corporation’s picketed plants, was riddled with shotgun pellets, and was almost brought down. An unidentified man alighted from an automobile, and discharged both barrels of a gun at'-the plane, striking the tail aud endangering the control. The pilot chased the car at a speed > of eighty miles an hour, but h e was ; forced to land. Thirty additional police were rush- ] ed to the air port. 1 GOVERNMENT AND WORKERS. ; WASHINGTON, June 12. Following a week of acrimonious de- ' batg concerning contributions to the Democratic Party finds for work * before the election. The Democratic Na- , tional Committee admitted that there ' was a loan of five thousand dollars from th e United Mine Workers of 1 America, which is a Lewis Union. The j loan has not yet been repaid. A Congressional investigation into the entire question of campaign funds is ex- 1 pected. i

Non-Unionist Workers

FIBED ON FROM UNION HEADQUARTERS. NINE WOUNDED. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received Jun e 14, 5-5 p-m-) ANDERSON (Indiana), June 14Nine non-unionist automobile workers were wounded by a shotgun in a clash in Cumuawa- The police have begun to search for a man who allegedly fired the shots from a third-floor window of the union headquanter s into a crowd of two hundred non-union workers. C. 1.0. Leader CUTS OFF IRON SUPPLY. FOR STRIKE-BOUND PLANTS(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). WASHINGTON, Juqo 14The C-I-O- leader, Mr Lewis, has orldered ninety-five hundred miners in seventeen of 'the mines in Pennsylvania and in West Virginia to strike, thus stopping the .supply of ore for the strikerbound steel plants.