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Show RepobSb Steel Takes Firm Stand Against 019 Pad BY UNITKI) PRESS While hundreds of police patrolled pa-trolled steel manufacturing areas in Chicago to prevent repetition of violence, the Republic Steel corporation held fast today against signing a working agreement agree-ment with steel unions affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization. In Cleveland, Tom Girdler, Republic Re-public chairman, said he had never met John L. Lewis, C. I. O. head, "and I hope to God I never see 'him." Meanwhile, the strike of thousands thou-sands of steel workers had reduced reduc-ed Republic production by half, and had completely shut down plants of two other large independent inde-pendent producers Inland Steel i corporation and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Republic continued to use airplanes air-planes to drop tons of food to non-striking non-striking workers inside picket-besieged picket-besieged plants at Warren, O. In Detroit, a one-man grand jury prepared to hear high officials offi-cials of the Ford Motor company explain circumstances of a fight last week in which two United Auntomobile Workers union organizers or-ganizers were injured. UAWA officials predicted that a "rent strike" in Pontiac, Mic'h., soon would spread to Detroit and affect 50.000 families. There were two bright spots on the labor horizon. In Hollywood, a month-old strike of motion picture technicians techni-cians was believed nearing an end. In Gillespie, 111., it was announced an-nounced that 550 miners, who staged an 8-day sit-down strike at the bottom of the Superior Coal company's mine at Wilsnnvillo, will return to work pending ncgui-ation ncgui-ation of their demands. |
