Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1919 — SETTLEMENT OF HAMMOND STRIKE EXPECTED TODAY. [ARTICLE]

SETTLEMENT OF HAMMOND STRIKE EXPECTED TODAY.

TYvo (hundred employes of the Standard Steel Car company returned to work in Hammond Friday and a settlement of the month old strike is believed to be near. Fred L. Feilck, federal mediator, took a hand in the strike and held three conferences, two with the officials of the plant and one with the strike Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith, commanding the eleven companies of Indiana militia guarding the company’s property, said he had received the assurances of the company officials that no attempt would ibe made to import strikebreakers, an undertaking which Mayor Dan Brown said would be sure to bring bloodshed.