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Show ; I. MEDIATOR ENDS ! I THE BIG STRIKE 1i , Workers Return to Work at H ' Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Plant. t.fi J (' l Youngstown. O.. Jan. 11. Fred i- I ,. Croxton, state mediator, announced r tonight that the strike of the tube j i 1 1 workers at the plant of the Youngs- ih town Sheet and Tube company had jj! . been declared off. The men at the " IJlJJ mass meeting voted to accept the com- ? I J) J pany's offer of an Increase In wages lf,' amounting approximately to 10 per j'j1 cent and will return to work tomor- f II K i row. HJ;IJ'" The plant employs 9500 men, not . 8! j all of whom, however, have been on a S Ijjij strike, although they wero compelled j to quit work. ' jljjl Mediator Croxton is endeavoring to j jjji k settle the strike at the plant of the p'k Republic Iron & Steel company and fp' conferences of representatives of the fiKSfi- company and the men will be resumed bHUf tomorrow. I HI - Announcement was made at the !j headquarters of Brigadier General IJU John C. Speaks, in commadn of the . H two regiments Ohio national guard Rjl here, that as a result of the change in rh. me situation, an order for tne witn ilM: drawal of militia would probably be flu issued tomorrow. Ijjj John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in a tele- jL- gram received here late today, denied J! L charges made by Thompson H. Flynn, Kjj general organizer for the American JjH1 Federation of Labor, that the Rocke- H t feller interests were in any way in- jjjj terested in the proposed merger of big jjjr independent steel interests or were in- B directly responsible for the rioting in fill t East Youngstown last Friday. Jla Mr. Flynn had charged that the riot I 111 was part of a scheme to depress the Ij II. value of stock of the Youngstown j j Sheet & Tube company, so that con- II r rl could be obtained and a merger I1 affected with several other com-j com-j panies in which the Colorado Fuel & Iron company was to be included. J When the telegram was received Mr. J Flynn at once replied that he would lift, If Mr. Rockefeller desired, submit to JU" him the source of Information. Up The grand jury Investigating the 31 ' strike at the plant of the Youngstown 81 Sheet . Tube company and the riot-Ill riot-Ill ing which drink-crazed mobs looted and I ft lng which drink-crazed mobs loots and im burned practically every place of busi- llf. ness In Youngstown, was resumed to- iflf day- lift The In(luilT will be thorough, ac- I iff' cording to K. S. Ballard, assistant at- J' torney general of Ohio, and everv B caUBe IeadlnS UP to the strike will be AS Investigated. The grand Jurv also (j'j - will inquire into the riot, especially (ill endeavoring to ascertain if it was In- il ; spired by any person, corporation or II. foreign government, f oo |
