Show STRIKE EXPECTED TO 10 TOBE TOBE BE COMPROMISED MANSFIELD Ohio May 15 UP Officials and 1600 striking em cm of oC the Empire Steel S cl corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion were believed He nearing an agreement agree ment menu today as President K K H. H Hen Hen- kel presented compromise demands of the strikers to directors of the corporation Before conferring with his directors directors directors tors Henkel Indicated that they would ac accept pt the offer oHer of oC i to return to work Sunday If it wage cut orders totaling 15 per pcr cent were rescinded The president said mid that b he expected a a. speedy end to the strike Strikers voted the compromise offer of ot fer to President Henkel after rejecting re jesting advances made by the Amalgamated Amalgamated Amal Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers of North America a union In sympathy with the strike Spokesmen for the workers said that tha If tr necessary ary they would form torm an Independent In dependent union to negotiate with Empire Steel At a third mass meeting the strikers strikers ers agreed not to Join the union or form Corm an independent union if it the 15 per cent slash was revoked More than 1000 workers previously had signed applications for union membership membership mem memo and and demanded a union wage scale before returning to work A feeling of cooperation between the workers and their employers ers existed today as spokesmen for fox the strikers declared that hat they feared the corporation would go under II it the strike lasted Company officials have made no attempt to break the strike with imported labor |