**Date:** May 5, 1967
**Source:** Unknown
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Fighting breaks out at Maple Street entrance to Uniroyal plant.
By JAMES FLEMING
Register Staff Reporter
MAUGATUCK — Fighting broke out at the Maple Street plant of Uniroyal for the second day in a row, and 21 employees were arrested. Fifty were arrested Thursday.
It was later learned that Uniroyal will seek a restraining order in Waterbury Superior Court in an attempt to limit the union to three pickets at each gate.
Breaking began at 6:50 a.m. today when office personnel attempted to cross picket lines. Pickets who had massed at the entrance massed the salaried workers tried to get into the company grounds.
Police struggled with pickets as they attempted to open lanes. Suddenly, the 300 persons on the Green began to mass spontaneously in a disorderly group and the strikers began yelling as they saw them approaching. Some policemen half the total force in Naugatuck rushed in between the two groups along with Uniroyal official and ordered them to go back to the Green.
The strikers continued to press forward to meet the office workers who went back to the Green.
About half an hour later, the office workers again moved toward the plant and the strikers came toward them. Raymoned
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