Governor Urges Them to Oust Communists Johnstown, Pa, July 4.
The Governor, Mr. George H. Evrle, in a surprise appearance before a mass meeting of steel workers and coal miners striking against the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, to-day appealed to organized labour to drive "those damned communists" out of the ranks of your organization"
Unprotected from a heavy rain, which drenched him and his more than 5,000 listeners, the New Deal executive stood on a platform in a natural amphitheatre on the outskirts of Johnstown and cautioned the strikers against repetition of the violence which led to the closing of Bethlehem's strike-affected Cambria plant here two weeks ago.
As the miners and mill men shouted "Earle for President in 1940", the Governor assailed steel producers who have refused to sign contracts with, the union, Bethlehem's refusal to sign a contract is the sole issue in the strike at the Cambria plant, marked by sporadic violence, including dynamiting of two mains supplying water to the plant and an attempt yesterday to dynamite a Pennsylvania \atroat train—United Press.
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