Show STEEL STRIKERS RETURN TO JOBS New Strikes Arise in Cotton Lettuce Fields of S California Or T Associated Fresi Prell Return to work of oC several thousand st steel l company in west Virginia Vir ginia ginta and Ohio Oho and strikes in the cotton and lettuce fields felds of ot California California Califor Califor- nia marked the thc industrial scene to to- I day Escorted by 50 state stale policemen the fit first day shift of Weirton W W. Va Steel company went back backo to o their jobs after a weeks week's strike Pickets massed about one of ot the mills mill's gates were quickly dispersed wIth tear gas Approximately workers in CalifornIa's lettuce and cotton growing growIng grow grow- Ing ng regions were reported on strike demanding substantial increases in pay State Labor Commissioner Frank C. C MacDonald described the situation as s dangerous and said coton cot cot- ton on growers had rejected all mediation media media- tion offers I CONFERENCE OPENS Interest of the strike-plagued strike coal coalfields coalfields fields ields of western Pennsylvania was focused on a cont conference rence in Pittsburgh Pitts burgh between Thomas Moses president president dent of the H. H C. C Frick Coke company company com corn pany pany- and Philip Murray vice president dent of the United Mine Workers Up for tor discussion were the questions questions ques- ques ions of ot union recognition the union checkoff system and the status of union problems which precipitated the strikes About half the areas area's striking striking ing miners have returned to work the others are awaiting outcome of ot the conference In Indiana national guardsmen patrolled pa pay trolled trailed Sullivan county roads alert for possible renewal of ot disorders accompanying accompanying ac ac- ac companying picketing of cooperative bituminous collieries United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers have charged that the cooperative cooperative coop coop- pl plan n violates the wage agreement agree agree- ment meat between the union and o opera opera- ra tors FORD MEN BACK BACIC The twelfth day of f the strike at atthe atthe atthe the Ed Edgewater N. N J. J as assembly embly plant of the Ford company found between and men at work The plant employs approximately 2200 men Belief that N R H A administrators may agree soon to 10 reopening of ot ex ex- sting Isling codes so that wages might be raised and hours shortened was expressed ex ex- pressed in Washington by William Green president of the American Federation of Labor |