SENATE TO INQUIRE INTO STRIKE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 126, 14 June 1937, Page 7

SENATE TO INQUIRE INTO STRIKE

-Press Assn.-

I Charges of Violence and Coercion ) MORE WORKERS OUT

(By Telegraph-

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(Received 14, 8.45 a.nO WASHINGTON, June 13. The Senate Committee has ordered a broad inquiry into charges of violence, coercion and interference with the mails in the steel strike areas Senator Bridges alleged that food and mails had not been delivered to tho workers in the strike-bound plants. The assistant postmaster countered the charges witli the remark; "We are complying with the law by way of refusing to risk the postmen's lives." The Michigan State Governor, Mr. Murphy, has ordered 300 militiamen aud 100 State police to maintain order at the big union protest meeting toi morrow. Outsiders who had uo busi- ; ness in Monroe were prohibited from | catering the city. The Johnstown steel strike has ' spread to Bethlehem, curtailing opera- ! bions in a plant empldying 16,000 men. i Hundreds of pickets are massed at tho i gateS. The union demands a contract I lor wages, hours and recognitiou. A message from Cleveland says that ' a 'plane carrying victuals in taking-off at the airport after returning from thf i Uepublic Steel Corporation's plants, which are picketed by members of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, was riddled with shot-gun pellets and almost brouglit down. An unidentified man alighted from an automobile and discharged both barrels of the gnn, the shot striking the tail thu's endangering the control. The pilot ehased tlie car at 80 miles an hour but was forced to land. Thirty additional police have been rushed to the airport.