Bethlehem, Pa., Mar. 29, Settlement of the four day strike at the vast home plant here of the Bethlehem: Steel Corporation, was announced yesterday after an all night conference of company officials.
The strike had tied up production on approximately US$1,300,000,000 worth of defence orders and flared into pitched battles between pickets and police when non-striking workers attempted to crash picket lines and enter the plant.
The strike was called by the Steel workers Organizing Committee, an affiliate of the Committee of Industrial Organizations, in retaliation of an election of officers carried out by a rival workers union in the plant.
Meanwhile, from Washington came reports that the Defence Mediation Board asked the management and strikers in the closed plants of International Harvester Company, Universal Cyclops Steel company, Vanadium Steel Corporation and Condenser Corporation to resume work immediately, after which the board would attempt to effect a permanent settlement' of differences—United Press.
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