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Title	Little Steel Strike Bombing Suspects Mug Shot Photographs
Subject	Business and Labor Strikes Steel industry Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) Labor unions Bombings Identification photographs
Place	Niles (Ohio) Warren (Ohio) Trumbull County (Ohio)
Description	These mug shots were taken by the Warren, Ohio police department during the 1937 "Little Steel" Strike. On June 24, 1937 two bombs exploded near Republic Steel's Warren Plant. The first bomb damaged a bridge leading to the plant. The second bomb almost struck a car carrying National Guardsmen. Within a month eight men were arrested: Arthur Scott, 40 yrs. old, of Warren, OH; George Bundas, 25, Warren, OH; John Borowiec, 28, Warren; Charles "Chuck" Byers, 32, Warren; Sidney Watkins, 27, Warren; Andrew Marsh, Warren; Joe Orawiec, Johnstown, PA; and Gus Hall, 26, Youngstown. Hall, one of CIO/SWOC's strike leaders in Warren as well as one of the local leaders of the Communist Party, was named by the other bombing suspects as the leader of a plot to bomb Republic Steel facilities as well as the homes of non-striking workers. On July 31, 1937 seven of the defendants (all but Hall) pleaded guilty to illegal possession and control of explosives. Andrew Marsh, George Bundas, and John Borowiec each received five years probation while Scott, Orowiec, Watkins, and Byers were each sentenced to prison for 1 to 20 years. In January, 1938 Gus Hall pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of malicious destruction of property and was fined $500 plus costs (or a total of $2,240). Each photograph measures approximately 2" by 3" (5 by 7.6 cm). These black and white photographs are part of a scrapbook maintained by the Republic Steel Corporation documenting events at its Warren Plant during the strike. The scrapbook is labeled Miscellaneous Communications, Posters and Pictures Relating to the C.I.O. Strike of the Warren Plant of the Republic Steel Corporation, Summer 1937, Vol. III. In June 1936 the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers and the Committee for Industrial Organization (C.I.O.) agreed to a joint effort to organize the steel industry. This led to the formation of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (S.W.O.C.). Soon after the first representatives from the S.W.O.C. arrived in the Mahoning Valley to begin their organizing efforts. On March 26, 1937 the organizing committee signed a contract with U.S. Steel, the nation's largest steel producer. Six weeks later the second largest steel company in the country, Jones & Laughlin, followed the example of U.S. Steel. Following these victories the S.W.O.C. increased its efforts at reaching agreements with the smaller companies known as the "Little Steel" companies: Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Talks between the organizing committee and the steel companies broke down and on May 26, 1937 approximately 25,000 Mahoning Valley steelworkers walked off their jobs from Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Most of the mills shut down with the start of the strike. However, Republic Steel kept their Warren and Niles plants open using non-striking steelworkers. This led to a number of violent confrontations outside the mills.
Date of Original	1937
Collection	Republic Steel, Warren Plant 1937 Strike Scrapbook
Source	Audiovisual material YHC MSS0017
Submitting Institution	Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor
Type	StillImage; 1937
Format	picture

Title	Om1619_2583297_069
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1619_2583297_069.tif
Image Height	3410
Image Width	3854
File Size	3592.226 KB

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