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At week's end, with a group of self-styled "loyalists" clamoring for an application of the freshly-proven Wagner Act, the company signed a new agreement with the C.I.O. group outlawing strikes for six months, providing for a vote to determine whether the United Chocolate Workers Union or the Loyal Workers Club shall represent the workers. Both claim approximately two-thirds of all employes. Left unchanged by the agreement: wages & hours; Hershey's discharge & disciplinary powers.
While Sit-Down critics throughout the land observed with ill-concealed satisfaction that lawlessness breeds lawlessness, Pennsylvania's New Dealing Governor Earle started an investigation, cried: "The bloodshed at the Hershey plant was a disgrace to the Commonwealth. The blame lies directly on the sheriff of the county. . . . The State police will not be used to suppress union labor."