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Show PICKETS ARE DISARMED IN STEEL STRIKE Republic Steel to Reopen Plant; 63 Percent Vote to Work CLEVELAND, June 8 (U.R) Local authorities today ordered or-dered the disarming of steel strike pickets in Youngstown, center of the teeming Mahoning Mahon-ing valley steel producing district dis-trict in which more than 20,-000 20,-000 mill hands are idle. This development coincided with preparations by Republic Steel Corp. to reopen tomorrow its subsidiary sub-sidiary Newton Steel Co. plant in Monroe, Mich, where 63 per cent of the workers voted in an election elec-tion to return to work. Election Results Given Republic announced these results re-sults of another election held in Canton, O., under auspices of the chamber of commerce. The chamber, cham-ber, mailed out 6,405 ballots. It said 3,888 "genuine" ballots were returned, and 2,516 "counterfeit." Of those said to be "genuine," 3,633 were marked in favor of returning re-turning to work, 216 against, and 36 were blank. Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., declared that company would reopen re-open plants around Youngstown "when the authorities give our returning re-turning workmen and their families fami-lies full protection." Police Chief Carl Olson of Youngstown ordered pickets to cease carrying clubs or other weapons. Sheriff Ralph Elser said the "time is close at hand when X may have to issue a similar order" throughout Mahoning county. He said that meantime he would cooperate co-operate with Olson in enforcing the' order in Youngstown itself. Elser said he had seen several pickes carrying revolvers and that he had received many reports of families of non-strikers being threatened. "I will keep order in this country if I have to swear in 10,000 deputies," depu-ties," Elser said. "We will not break this strike for the steel companies, but we will not allow the C. I. O. to become this county's coun-ty's law enforcemen agency." DETROIT, June 8 (U.R) Strikers Strik-ers will not reopen the Newton Steel company's Monroe plant until un-til the company signs a national contract with the Steel Workers Organizing committee, Charles Kiser, regional director of the union, said today. "They are not going to open up that plant tomorrow,'' Kiser said. "We've just started to fight. The S. W. O. C. has the assurance of support from every oDmmittee for industrial organization affiliate in Detroit and Toledo." |