Republic Steel

Tom Girdler
Board Chairman

Harry Holloway
Assistant District Manager

Robert L. Ritzie
Newton Plant Superintendent

James S. Torbic
Personnel Supervisor and Chief of Company Police in the Newton plant

Steel Workers’ Association
(company union)

Ivor Powell
Chairman

Orion Barron
Attorney

Russell Matthews
Charles Strohm
Charles M. White
Carl Grimm
Steve Matters
(Company Policeman)

Government

Frank Murphy
Governor

George Krogstead
State Labor Conciliator

Daniel A. Knaggs
Mayor of Monroe

Jess Fischer
Monroe Chief of Police

Joseph Bairley
Monroe County Sheriff

Roy Butler
“Acting” Captain of Volunteers

Harry Davenport
Commander Citizens’ Battalion

Captain Donald Leonard
State Police

Representative Clare Hoffman
Allegan Congressman

Labor

CIO
(Committee of Industrial Organizations)

John L. Lewis
President, CIO

Homer Martin
President UAW (CIO affiliate)

Philip Murray
Chairman of SWOC (Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee), also part of the Amalgated Association of Steel Iron and Tin Workers

Van A. Bittner
Chicago SWOC

Charles Kiser
District SWOC Organizer (Detroit)

Leondies McDonald
Outside Organizer (African-American)

Richard Taylor
Outside Organizer

Fred Mayberry
Outside Organizer

Theodore Dimoff
Outside Organizer

Monroe SWOC
Harry Clark
President

Earl Crawford
Vice-president

Dominic Mather
Fnancial Secretary

Calvin Shumacker
Recording Secretary

S. J. Sloan
Treasurer

James Mather
Inside Guard

Frank Sifka
Outside Guard

Joe Speno
Guide

Watson Smith
Journal Agent

Andrew Hrabcsak (Rabek)
Picket Captain

Paul Sowers

Harry Masolsky