A conference between the Governor, Mr, M. Clifford Townsend, Mr. Van A. Bittner, director of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, and Mr. Thomas R. Hutson, State Labour Commissioner, to-day resulted' in a "memorandum of understanding" with the Department of Labour and the termination of the strike at the Indiana Harbour plants of the Inland Steel Ca. Executives of the steel company joined in the conference by telephone.
By the agreement, company operators recognize the SW.OC, as bargaining agent and the union will call off the strike, permitting 12,500 workers to return to their jobs tomorrow.
The Governor indicated that he expected the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Ca. to come to a similar agreement with the S[W.O.C., an affiliate of the Committee for Industrial Organization.
Earlier to-day the Governor mobilized 3,900 National Guardsmen for the re-opening of, the Inland and Youngstown plants, One thousand pickets at the Indiana Harbour plants of the Inland Steel Ca. staged a huge parade to-day in celebration of the settlement—
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