LABOR: Steel Aftermath

Having nearly exhausted his original $55,000 appropriation, Senator Robert Marion La Follette last week asked the Senate for another $50,000 to carry on the work of his Civil Liberties Committee. As a sample of the Committee's work the shrewd little Wisconsin Progressive also sent the Senate a report on the Memorial Day massacre in which ten men were fatally shot outside the gates of Republic Steel's South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). After the open hearings in Washington and the showing of the famed Paramount newsreel of the riot, it was obvious whom...

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