Cleveland, June 29.
The Inland Steel Ca, to-day accepted a proposal of the Governor, Mr. Martin L. Davey, for a temporary agreement for a peaceful settlement of the strike in its Indianapolis plants.
Leaders of the Committee for Industrial Organization, which is leading the steel strike in seven states, indicated they would reject the proposal as it contains no provision for a signed contract, which they said was the sole immediate issue of the strike.
The temporary agreement would provide that 20,000 employees of the company's Indianapolis plants return io work immediately pending hearing before the Natfonal Labour Relations Beard. The company would agree not to discriminate against former strikers or union members.
Despite the CIE. refusal. the Inland Ca. announced that it would open its plants @t Indiana Harbor on Thursday morning.
The C.LO. condemned violence on the picket lines to-night as the thirteenth life was lost in the seven state steel strike, All along e strike front, however, there were charges of violence, kidnappings, bombings and dynamite ing of the property of the nation's leading independent steel products—United Press,
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