**Date:** 5-4-67
**Source:** Unknown
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By PATRICK KEATING
and JAMES FLEMING
Register Staff Reporters
NAUGATUCK–Some 50 pickets were arrested this morning and charged with breach of the peace following a near riot at the Maple Street gate of the Uniroyal plant.
The outbreak came after several hundred pickets barred the entrance to prevent management personnel from entering.
Several pickets required medical attention as a result of the disturbance, and a detail of 25 patrolmen including regulars and supernumerary patrolmen–about half of the town’s entire department–were required to quell the outbreak.
Summa ordered them to re- main silent and read the official announcement of the workers. However, 8 a.m. telling them they were “guilty of unlawful assem- bly” and charged “footwear manuf actured used in the picket line.”
He said an injunction should have been served on them to have the union desist from stopping office and supervisory per sonnel from entering the plant.
Police indicated he would have observed an injunction and would not have taken any action had it not occurred.
Later, at about 9:30 a.m., Mengacci returned to police headquarters with attorney Dan Baker of Stamford, union counsel, and they conferred with Chief Frank Mengacci, Mayor Joseph Bartosiewicz and attorneys for the Town’s Police Commission.
Joseph Phelon, a member of the executive committee of Local 15 and a borough fire commissioner, was also arrested.
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SAIGON (AP) — North Vietnamese regulars who streamed across the demilitarized zone looked with U.S. Marines near the Laotian border today. Other Communist troops inflicted heavy casualties in an attack on a U.S. Special Forces camp six miles away.
As the ground war intensified in the northern corner of South Vietnam, U.S. Air Force planes pounded North Vietnamese targets to wipe out North Vietnam’s air arm hit the Ho Lau airfield and 20 miles west of the DMZ Wednesday for the fourth straight day.