Morning:
Michigan State Police placed on standby for the southern counties. All leaves cancelled. No reason given, but all assume it is because of the potential trouble in Monroe.
Noon:
More than 100 sworn in as Special Deputies in Monroe.
Afternoon:
American Legion Posts from the following cities offer help; Dundee, Milan and Lambertville. CIO tightens the picket line; CIO speakers on the picket line state that they "will have, if necessary, 10,000 strikers from outside of Monroe to help."
3:30 p.m:
CIO strikers jump on car running boards and tell drivers of workers who are arriving to get the plant ready, to turn around or they will have their cars overturned. Non-striking workers turn back. Day shift Newton Steel workers, who were getting the plant ready for the opening tomorrow, were forced, at the end of their shift, to travel through the picket line to boo's and jeer's. McDonald tells the pickets to stop the booing and jeering because "They believed they were doing the right thing, just as the pickets believed they were." Meeting in City Hall with City, Newton and CIO. People seated outside the meeting room say it was "heated." City announces that the mill opening time has been moved to 4 p.m., "so that the CIO would not have a complaint against the City." CIO ordered to keep the road open.
Evening:
900 Newton steel workers are at the Monroe High School to listen to what will happen tomorrow and speakers telling them that some of CIO leadership are suspected of being Communist Party members. Kaiser of the local CIO tells the picket line "to keep the road open until 4 p.m." and "not to cause trouble." |
