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Show REPUBLIC STEEL REOPENS MILLS CANTON, O., June 30 (U.E) Republic Steel Corp., re-opened the gates of its big Canton mills today after the bayonets of national na-tional guardsmen had ended a picket barrage of stones in which about a dozen returning workers were injured. Carl W. Myers, assistant manager, man-ager, announced that 1,300 production pro-duction men had returned to the plants which normally employ around 8,000 and that 600 of 1800 workers who had been imprisoned by picket lines since the strike started had been escorted home by militia. Strike leaders asserted that less than 500 men had returned to their jobs in the five big mills stretching over a seven-mile semicircular semi-circular area. Returning workers were stoned by a crowd of hundreds of strike sympathizers unyl guardsmen broke up the attack and arrested eight men. The non-strikers, escorted es-corted from the plant iby truck loads of troops, were showered with stones and bolts without apparent ap-parent injuries as they rolled through the scattered crowds of strikers. |