The nation's pulse rose feverishly last week as riot ran loose in three industrial cities of the U. S. Public patience, strained by disputes that have been impeding the defense effort, cracked. But it was the din of disorder, not of disaster, that raised the national pulse.
In Bethlehem, Pa.,police charged picket lines around the Bethlehem Steel plant. In Chicago, strikers milled and jeered around the gates of International Harvester's McCormick plant, while people who recalled the bloody Haymarket riot of 1886, which was fought on the same spot, held their breaths....
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