Picked Police Guam Bethlehem's Plant

' T" iM'j- 1.\ T . ( \ a p ; ./ '\ T, V ( Avarage Daily Ctrcnlation Tlia Weather f Far tha Msath a< Fahruary, m i Faraaatt bf O. S. WaattM itoroee; 6,677 Fair toaigbt aad T ■ligbtly, enider toniabt. warmei V *t tha AuiH 'Tbuinday. 9t Otradattoaa * lflanch^ter-~~A City of Village Charm (CtoaaUtofl iiverttotag Oa Faga IS) MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAYrilARCH 2i, 1941 (EIGHTEEN PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. LX., NO. 150. 7 -------------- ----------------:— hi—;------------------------- ---------- — ^ . Picket Line at Bethlehem Steel Plant Riots in Belgrade Picked Police GuaM Protest Yugoslav Bethlehem’s Plant; Alliance with Axis No Incidents Today Raids ell Outbreaks; Oc- Bom bs Drop Pennsylvania State Po Reject Plans Steel Plant rs Short Time Aft lice Smash: Massed er. Premier Returns To Subways Picket Lines at En On Outlawing Fr^om Vienna Journey. Doing Naval trances to All Mines; Britiah Official Reporta Threatened Strike at Belgrade, Yugoslavia.V Labor Rows Ships Work Hita Made on *Very (] a m h r i a Plant at March 26. — (/P) — Rioting j Important* Railway Johnstown Fails to broke out in the center of j Deniocralic Leaders in Bethlehem Defense Con-, Belgrade at noon today in Junction by Fliera. House Decide to Block Materialize Today. tracts Include Billion protest against Yugoslavia’s Attempts to Bring Leg London, March 26—(>!’)—An In Materials for Pro Bethlehem, Pa., March 26. alliance with the Axis powers. Economic Warfare Ministry off!' islation to the Floor. posed Two-Ocean Navy — (/P)— More than 100 picked Police and soldiers armed to dal said today that in British Pennsylvania state poUce '1 the teeth rushed to the scene raids on Berlin In December and Washington, March 26.—OP)— Bethlehem, Pa., March 2S—0P) stood guard to enforce and quelled the outbreak, January bombs penetrated to un- Democratic House leadera were re —Defense contracts held by The derground railways^ ported authoritatively today to peaceful picketing” today, which occurred a short time Bethlehem Steel-Company ihclude Another blew the roof off a have rejected proposals to outlaw after smashing massed picket a billion dollars worth of materiala after Premier DragiM Cvet- movie theater, he said, baaing his ■trikes Iq defense industries, pri lines at the parent plant of for the nation's proposed two- kovic returned from Vienna, statements on reports from R. A. After the CIO Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee called a strike at the Bethlehem Steel Com marily because of appointment of the Bethlehem Steel Com ocean Navy, a company spokes F. observation and "other pany plant at Bethlehem, Pa., pickets (above)) began marching past the Lehigh plant, billet yard annex. thu National Defense Mediation pany. Workers passed in and where he signed the Axis sources.” man said In a statement today. Strikers said their action was in protest against a bargaining representative election called by the Board. out of the mills without in The offldsl also declared hits Employes Representation Plan, an Independent organization. ^he company’s home plant here, pact yesterday. cident. Shouting warnings were made on a "very Important’ Informed sources said they had where a strike now Is In progress, Many' persqna were arrested ba- ■ends virtually Its entire output to foro police halted the fighting, railway Junction, cauaing "conald decided to block attempts to bring and waving riot sticks, the such legislation to the floor, at a dozen major ahlpyards—three troopers — many of them which started when Axis aympa- erable dislocation." in the Boston area, four In the thlxers attacked a parade of stu He said the Berlin police presi least until Lho new 11-member mounted— cleared all nine Emphasis Put New York area, two at Baltimore, dents bearing British and Ameri dency and law courts were dam Senate Approves Bill agency has had an opportunity to and three on the west coast. reduce the number of atrlkea. entrances last night of can flags. aged, the top floors of the widely The contracts are spread.,over a sing Fatriotle Song known Wertheim department ThIa decision became known as pickets established by "tiie five-year period, the time allotted The parsdefs already had march stores were burned out and minor On Canal Zone Chairman Norton (D-NJ) of the CIO Steel Workers Organic-' to building up American Naval ed through the business district, damage waa also done to a num On Municipal Utilities House Labor Committee appealed forces to sufficient strength to ing Committee. to all workera to cooperate "to get singing patriotic songs. ber of Important industrial guard both east and west coast' Meanwhile across the stats ia The students were mostly from plants. Defense Jobs this Important defense Job done' lines. Johnstown another threaUiisd secondary schools and formed the lest public reaction force drastic Defense contracts held by the ■trike at the Cambria plant where Heaviest Damage at Mannheim. anti-strike legislation. procession on their way home from company, the apokeaman aald, to- 10,000 men r e employed, failed to The heaviest damage during the I . ! -1 A I I Farm Program lunch. two months, the official said, was Third Set of Locks Ex lion and Allow Exten Opposed To Leglalation U1 81.300,000,000. materialize. There are 21,000 Authorities apparently were pre St Mannheim where the main I am unalterably opposed to Produces Moat Shipyard Steel. workmen heie. pared to meet any situation. pected to Be Complet sion Beyond Commu ■trike leglalation," Mrs. Norton The plant here. It waa added, docks were hit, several barges Called Symbol Col. Lynn G. Adams, stats police Poltce and soldiers Jammed said in a statement, "but I have produces the greatest volume of commissioner who led the troopers courtyards throughout the city, sunk, traffic blocked, several en ed Before the Sched nities Owning Them. shipyard steel of any of the com gineering shops destroyed and sense enough to know that unless last night, said today that "he ones ready to cope with any demonstra labor unions get together and de pany's seven factories In Penn making the trouble are etevedoree. others damaged. uled Date in 1946. tors who threatened to get out of State Capitol, Hartford. Of Protection clare a truce, for the duration of sylvania, New York snd Maryland. ex-eallora, dKk-handa and Com- hand. He said he understood the dam- the war, in Jurladlctional disputes, munista” who, he said, were Cvetkovic no sooner had reached Washington, March 26— (/P) — March 26.—(/P)—The Senate snd employers snd employees com (CoaUnued O n re g e Twelve) "brought' in.” Asked who brought (Contiiiaed O* Page '*>*) the capital than he went into con With emphasis on defense work.s unanimously approved today Evans, AAA Head, Says promise their differences. It wilt be them in, Adam - Said: ‘T won't ference seeking to end the dii- such as tbe Panama Canal, the ImpossibU to prevent this legislsi ■ay." ordefs which had been agitating a bill to speed up municipal; PukUc Assured *We tlon or sven to preserve th* Tegla-' May Seek Iniui|ctlea House Appropriations Committee the country for 24 hours. letlon w* have worked ao hard to Defense Cost Strike leaderff Khnotnieed th»F Officials Study approved today a 1.300,272,288 bill acquisition of public utilities' 'ShaU Suffer No ShorG While Cvetkovic consulted with amJnextend their seryiees be Ynhcf;" ' - may seek a court Injunction for Chief Regent Prinoe Jtovl. unoon> for the civil function# of the War age of Food or Fiber.' Brig. Gen. Philip B. Fleming reeumptiof) of picketl^ brokan up firmed reports c ir c u la r that yond the communities where disclosed at Providence, R. I., last Department—rivers and harbors, Found iBlpse by.police "if necessary."' They authorities had ordered a aearch. Nazi Blockade flood control end the like. they are located. Chairman night that Congress already had threatened a "finish fight” taV all Washington, March 26-^F>—R. started to bear from some of tbe of the homes of opposition leadtra John L. Sullivan (D.) of the who rerigned from the government For the canal, the committee M. Evans, a^cultural adjustment votera back, home on the subject. recommended 852,135,326 cash and (Oenttoned On Pnge Tea) before the Axla alignment. New Deadline Public Utilties Committee administrator, declared today that Fleming, Federal wage-hour ad- To 40 Billion contractual authority of 879,000,» B*v«ral A m ato Komored told the Senate the measure the "ever-normal granary" farm ndnjstrator, reported, that tbe It was rumored that several ar 000, after Brig. Gen. Glen E. Ed- legialaton were receiving heavy gerton. Canal governor, reported was the first planned by his program, now under attack on rests bad been made. mall from parent* of enlisted snd Expenditures Since June Welles Declines to Say that the third set of locks there group to bring public utilites Capitol Hill, would prove a "sym Selectivs Bendce men demanding Yugoelavla'a public echools were probably would be completed In .1, 1940 Total. $39,* Flashes! ordered cloaed untU Monday. legislation — “ up-to-date and bol of protection" for consumers in to know why atrlkea of defense What Steps May Be advance of the scheduled date, (Late Bulletins ot tha (F) Wtra) Accompanied by Foreign Minis worded in such a manner that the uncertain days ahead. workera for higher wage* should 177,800,060 Includ June 30, 1946. The new locks are be permitted when youths were ter Alksailder Clncar-Markovic. Taken; No American expected to facilitate quick move our average citizen will not who also participated in the pact Thanks to the program' of being taken into tbe Army at pay ing Biritiflh Aid Funds. Ships Go to Iceland.

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