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Wednesday January 12, 1916
From The Day Book: State Investigation Vindicates Labor at East Youngstown

The state of Ohio, upon an order issued by Governor Willis, is investigating the recent strike disturbances at East Youngstown, Ohio. Attorney A. M. Henderson of Mahoning County who is conducting the investigation has issued a report which vindicates labor. Tuesday's Chicago Day Book, 2nd edition, reported the news:

LABOR VINDICATED IN THE
YOUNGSTOWN RIOTS
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East Youngstown Burning, January 7-8, 1916
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Youngstown, O., Jan. 11.-Organized labor was absolutely vindicated of any responsibility for the strike that resulted in rioting, loss of life and property destruction in East Youngstown in the report of State's Att'y A. M. Henderson of Mahoning county, who is conducting an investigation under orders from Gov. Willis.

At the same time Henderson announced that one of the first witnesses brought before the grand jury today will be Jas. A. Campbell, pres. of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., in front of whose plant the riot started after one of the company's guards had fired a shot at the strikers. Campbell will be questioned regarding the activities of the 60 private detectives he admits the Sheet & Tube Co. brought to East Youngstown.

Thos. J. Flynn, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, in a signed statement to the state's attorney, declared his investigators had secured evidence tending to show that the rioting was caused by paid sluggers brought to East Youngstown by the company and he attributed the rioting to a "financial scheme rigged up as a last desperate resort to depress the value of the tube works stock, so that interests that are trying to form a great half-billion dollar merger could get the control that they wanted."

Communications were also sent to the state's attorney by a number of the small stockholders of the Sheet & Tube Co. who oppose the merger of the local company with the Cambria and Lackawanna Steel companies.

Plans to extend the strike of common laborers to the Carnegie and Brier Hill Steel Companies failed to materialize today. The scheduled walkout was to occur at noon after the men received their weekly pay, and was planned to help fellow-workmen at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., and the Republic Iron and Steel Co. to obtain an increase in pay to 25 cents an hour. Failure of the walkout was taken to indicate there will be no sympathetic strike in Mahoning valley and that the men are satisfied with the recent grant of a 10 per cent wage increase.

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[Photograph added.]

From The Day Book, 1st Edition, of January 11, 1916:

SOURCE
The Day Book
(2nd Edition)
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Jan 11, 1916
http://www.newspapers.com/image/77788569/

IMAGES
Youngstown Steel Strike, Massacre, Rushing Bridge, Day Book, 1st ed, Jan 11, 1916
Youngstown Steel Strike, Massacre, Rushing Bridge Text, Day Book, 1st ed, Jan 11, 1916
http://www.newspapers.com/image/77787911/
East Youngstown, OH, Burning, Jan 7-8, 1916
http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p267401coll36/id...

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