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Show STEEL STRIKE TENSION SEEN BY UNITED PRESS Nervous tension prevailed m the steel producing areas today as officials strove to prevent repilition of violence that marked mark-ed the Committee for Industrial Orangization's strike against independent in-dependent companies during the Memorial day week end. In Chicago, where five men were killed after a battle with police, strikers asked that murder mur-der .charges be placed against police who fired on workers marching toward the Republic steel plant in south Chicago. Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois announced that peaceful picketing picket-ing would tie permitted. In the Smoky Ohio sector, brickbat battles and intermittent sniping marked increasing tension. ten-sion. Republic corporation declared declar-ed picketing of five major plants still operating had become a "military invasion." In Detroit, Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Auto-mobile Workers union announced the C. I. O. had pledged full support to efforts to organize workers in the Ford Motor company's com-pany's plants. The pledge came in a special telegram from John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chairman. |