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He ordered the pickets off the street.
Things were peaceful for about a half hour. Then the supervisory personnel started en masse down Maple Street to the main gate. The pickets quickly massed to block their path. The police moved in between. It was a tense few minutes until the company personnel were ordered to back to the green.
After another conference it was announced that the union officials had agreed to allow the male employees to pass through the picket lines.
“Don’t let them pass”, pickets shouted. Mengacci then took the bull horn from Summa and appealed for calm.
The pickets then agreed to allow supervisory personnel to pass through in single file.
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About 30 supervisory personnel remained in the plant overnight. They were joined by about 100 others who crossed for the picket line this morning.
Two union officials helped calm the disturbance, which broke out about 7 a.m. They were Mengacci and Cy Blanchard, vice president of Local 218, Chemical Workers of America.
They appealed to union members to allow supervisory personnel to enter the plant.
They told the strikers that more violence would force the Naugatuck authorities to summon the state police, who might use tear gas, riot guns and other weapons to restore order.
“The purpose of this appeal is to prevent violence,” they said. “We want to cooperate with the local police.”
Their appeal was credited by Naugatuck officials with averting further violence.
Police Chief Frank J. Mariano, Capt. Joseph J. Summa and Police Commissioner Henry S. Marlon told The Sentinel today that a more serious disturbance might have arisen had the union officials not appealed for calm.
Beacon Falls, site of a Uniroyal warehouse, remained quiet today.
Three locals of the United Rubber Workers, representing about 5,000 employes, have been on strike since April 21 as part of a nationwide walkout affecting 50,000 workers.
Tension among the pickets had grown during the week as a result of reports that Uniroyal planned to resume shipments of manufactured goods.
The shipments have not been resumed.
The Naugatuck Police Department pressed all available men into service, including supernumeraries. About 30 officers were on duty this morning.
Two persons were reported hurt in today’s near-riot – a woman with a knee cut and a man who said he had been kicked.
William Battles, 37, of 486 North Main St., Waterbury, was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, Waterbury, by Naugatuck police ambulance to be examined for bruises. He was released by the hospital.
An Evening Sentinel photographer was knocked to the pavement. A second newsman was pushed.
Battles and three other strikers were charged with breach of the peace by assault. Seventeen others were charged with simple breach of the peace. All were freed in $200 bail each.
Just before noon today there were from 4 to 12 pickets at each of the seven plant gates.
Under a reported company-union agreement, male supervisory personnel were to be admitted to the plant. Women, except nurses, were to be excluded. Women who had entered previously left the plant without incident this morning.
Maple Street was closed by the police from 7 to 8:30 a.m. from Church to Maple Streets.
One hundred state police trained in riot control were at the Bethany State Police Barracks, ready to move into Naugatuck if needed. They were under the command of Commr. Leo M. Mulcahy. Two buses were standing by, ready to rush troopers to Naugatuck.