End of Strike in Ohio Clears Way For Drive
Article taken from The Lima News, July 12, 1936
Settlement of a violence marked strike at the wheeling steel corp's Portsmouth works today appeared to clear the way for a drive by labor to unionize the steel industry.
John L. Lewis committee on industrial organization, which participated actively in negotiations leading to an agreement between members of the amalgamated association of Iron, Tin and Steel workers and company officials, bad delayed inclusion of the plant in a general unionization campaign pending settlement of the dispute.
Richard Evans, president of a joint committee of five Portsmouth lodges of the Amalgamated which called the strike last May 22, announce Amalgamated members had accepted a proposal offered by the corporation, but did not disclose its details.
C. C. Caudill, manager for the steel company said he received word from Parker Wilson, assistant to the president at Pittsburgh, that operations in all departments of the giant plant would be resumed Monday.
He said work would be resumed in the coke plant and shipping department as well as in the general steel mills.
Fifty-five hundred workers left idle by the strike.
Robert Malone, chief of the night pickets at the plant, was jailed by Sheriff Arthur L. Oakes today on a charge of first degree murder, the third to be charged in connection with the death of a company guard.
The Sheriff also arrested four other persons in connection with strike violence as a grand jury continued an investigation into the disorders.