Lubbock Evening Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 33

Chaos May Soon Grip Indiana Steel Capital City Torn By Strike Awaits Inevitable Economic Disaster By JOHN BARROW GARY, Ind. (INS) The steel capital of Gary, once rocked by skull-splitting labor strife, is treading water today against a more ruinous threat. before her husband was off the job at U.S. Gary plant. Manuel Ponda, 40, was making $125 a week as a carpenter in the mills.

Out of it he paid $200 a month for food. Milk alone ran The nationwide steel strike has three to four gallons in two days, brought no shouting demonstra- Went On Relief tions, no sound truck oratory, no Mrs. Ponda said they went on jeering picket throngs in Gary, relief during the 1952 strike. So An eerie quiet prevails. far, been able to get (liaos Feared along.

One of the youngsters says But the acting mayor fears "Daddy found work on the Indi- chaos will grip second toll construction, largest city unless the strike is The the gov- settled soon. ernment seized the mills is PROPER DALLAS (if) Signs on the PHiforiOlI rear bumper of a truck: No Sin" on the left side and "Next of Kin" on the right. Comics Classified afAttocftrrJPnm Swufc, George Chacharis, city comp "like yesterday" to a grizzled veteran steel worker whose administration while the has a curse. Reis away, wiped his forehead to K.ve his name, the 60- a handkerchief and said: year-old man explained he at, taincd the stature of a leader, many people are affected onr below a foreman. yet.

But most workers live from; Hpncp hp complains the union one paycheck 10 the next. They re tbey do anything for making time payments on homes. rm practically part cars refrigerators, television of manasfPment" and the com- sets. And don forget pany hHp -cause rm "When the last check is spent, jnot part of the supervisory everybody in Gary will feel the forrP be economic Yet he is grateful the strike has brought none of the violence His fears are based on the outlook of Orval J. Kincaid.

United Steelworkers sub district direc- such as flared up at the Republic Steel melee in 1936 when 11 persons were killed, including police- tor. When the 650.000 mrn He credits "quiet" steel walked out at mid-' night on June 30, Kincaid warned his men against vigorous demonstrations. He told the 35.000 union members employed at Gary, Calumet and East Chicago mills: This may be a long race. burn up Take your time. We may need our energy later No one needed to tell Lottie Ponda to conserve.

The frail, to the fact all in the same boat; no scabs." About the only resentment voiced openly is directed against the negotiators in New York who deadlocked in bargaining conferences in which neither side could agree on a single point. Women Speaks Out Another steel worker who refused to be identified argues: make no payments until 30 days after you resume work." Acting mayor Chacharis figures that 70 per cent of the paychecks! for Gary's estimated 170.000 population come from steel plants. Four plants in Gary U.S. Steel, U.S. Sheet and Tin, National Tube and American Bridge out an estimated payroll of some $164 million.

With the rug snatched from under their feet, some 12,000 per-i sons have left Gary for places as far away as Florida. Cha-i charis, who has been keeping count, predicts that 5,000 "will never come A mood of "what can you shows itself even on the picket line. A sign on a gate reads, "no work" but few pickets are posted around the plants. Unlike previous walkous, the union has agreed to allow supervisory personnel to go in and out as long as no attempt is made to produce steel. In other walkouts, supervisory workers were marooned inside through the length of the strike, blocked from leaving by pickets.

The few strikers who do man picket posts pass the time by watching baseball games and other programs on television. The company strung 200 feet of electric wiring so TV sets could be hooked up by the strikers. Ironically, less than two weeks before the walkout, the townspeople of Gary celebrated "a half century of advancement and prosperity" in marking the steeli 50th anniversary. Lubbock, Texas, July 13, 1956 Section IV fff' mmm found the CAMERA By WILLARD A. RENFRO Timber Trestle To Be Replaced SAN FRANCISCO A Die trestle originally legged timber trestle, the world miles long hut some parts had longest, over which sleek stream- been replaced with aolid liners cross Great Salt Ijike in ------------------------Utah, will be but a memory by IX)VE The Southern Pacific Rail- ttOPKFORn ttl road is replacing it with a rock RCK and gravel fill 12 6 miles long.

hath no to give A land-locked flotilla of did when he bailed out boats, dredges and barges, just brother, Iarsiie R. Wells, 28 part of 15 million dollars worth Davenport was held himself, of specialized equipment needed although he completed his original for tve job, is bring assembled mission, when deputies sheriff A construction camp for 600 men recognized him as the man for has been set up. whom they had a warrant on LOANS up $2000 ----COMPARE! SAVE! It MenlA ou FtymoM Corti 11 Ou for Poymuoi 4SI.Sé $10.00 1Z 00 SO 00 4.0Z 1SSS.11 $40 00 00 100 00 MAIDEN pretty Miss, in a nomeg Ian costume, waves a welcome to the new Norwegian liner Bergensfjord as the sh arrives In New York to complete her maiden voyage. The 890 passenger, luxury liner made the 3,180 mile trip in 6 days, 10 hours, it minutes, a new record for the crossing from Kristiansand, Norway, to the Nantucket light ship. fha above doti nal includo intuf on, POrter 3-0488 before noon for a loan later the same day I COMMUNITY FINANCE A THRIFT CORPORATION 1007A 13th Phone: POrter 3-04SS laomlntd hr Oapartmtnf COMMUNITY INVfSTMINT CliTIPICATIS PAY Pit ANNUM A "I know why the com- hlue-eyed mother of 1- chddren pany demanding a five-year going tough enough jcontracb What if had a depression in four years? Inflation ican't go on forever." In September, 19 a old Sharon Niswander is expecting first baby.

She quit a good job at Sears Roebuck to marry 'Harold Niswander when he got of the Air Force in January. jHe was hired on at the Elgin. Joliet and Eastern Railroad tor outdoor pictures, filters are valuable part of any photo-; No n0 equipment. These ored discs are placed over the Another expectant mother is lens to alter the way in which June Beauchamp. Her husband, color's will be reproduced on Harold, had supported their other black-and-white film.

Filters hold two children by peddling soft back colors and Jet others through. Colors held back turn up darker on your prints, while colors the filter lets through easily will turn up lighter. A red filter holds back 16,000 drinks to Inland workers on the job In addition to these jobs collapsing in the rhain-reaction of the steel strike, Gary merchants are beginning to hurt. reported sales about 15 per cent below normal. Harold (Tay) Stack, one-time of the city council who blue now runs a tavern-restaurant with and gives dramatic sky 12-alley howTing palace, says Because it readily passes red hjR business is off 20 to 25 per tones, the red filter makes fleshLent Hp observed: tones appear whitish.

A guys who used to come in filter shows clouds very well an their wives for a couple of gives a natural look to trees and don see anv more ahrubs, It passes red. ftreen and STL yellow easily, so it also coming. There 11 he a lot of flesh tones. Green is the perfect suffering filter for flesh tones, especially Three blocks away in a federal for photographing women development of two-story stick, for instance, will be too brick Jack and Donna light when a red filter is used). rent runs only $57 Since all filters hold back mon(h But thpy arP behind, Jr 4- ftfm a 2l.moa.ha.

Mrs McCormick camera with a yellow filter film What we re poms to do I don that would otherwise he too fast. know. I haven spoken to tne With better cameras you increase landlord. I know what he exposure to compensate for the to do." loss of light. Manv merchants are "o.arry- get professional effects trieir charge ac- w-hen you add filters to your countR Such downtown stores as equipment so stop in and Sears, J.

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