Republic Steel Company Stop 5 Riot Eyewitness Narrative

              = STOP 5 RIOT= 
It had been ladies day on the picket line at 
the Republic steel stop 5 gate on Poland avenue 
on that peaceful and quiet summer [crossed out] saturday 
June 19, 1937.  The quiet would of remained so 
had it not been for a Youngstown policeman 
who interupted the peace by stopping a lady picket 
from taking a photograph of the lady pickets 
assembled at the stop 5 gate, when the policeman 
rudely jerked the camera out of the lady pickets 
hands, her husband who was nearby attempted 
to retrieve the camera from the clutches of the 
anti union cop which lit the fuse and the 
excuse for the itchy trigger fingers of the 
special police that had been hired by the city 
administration to exert their brutal authority 
over the lady pickets by firing into the crowd 
of ladies whom were seated on folding chairs 
in anticipation of getting their pictures taken. 
From that overt act the husbands of the 
ladies swarmed down and from their homes on 
Lansingville hill and entered into the melee 
to protect their women folks, by that time 
as dusk approached reinforcements of police 
and deputies arrived at stop 5 and tried 
to disperse the pickets that were coming to 
the aid of the women with tear gas and