**Date:** 1967-05-09
**Source:** Waterbury Republican
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NAUGATUCK–A barrage of trucking firm. The second truck to enter was from a New Haven firm, the Wilson Freight Co. The Elliott Bros. Trucking Co. firm Waterbury and the Lombard Bros., who rented a truck from a local dealer, also entered the gates.
Most of those who turned away from large firms engaged in interstate commerce. When a truck from one of these outfits left, one of the pickets chortle., “There goes a good Teamster.”
Fur police patrols were at the gate at the time, under the leadership of Capt. Joseph Summa.
The scene Monday afternoon at the gate was in marked contrast to the clashes with police which marked the early morning hours of three days last week when pickets attempted to prevent white collar personnel from entering the plants on Maple St.
Following those three days of clashes, during which 71 pickets were arrested on charges of breach of peace, a hearing for the purpose of preventing mass picketing was held in Waterbury.
At that time, Judge Leo V. Gaffney issued a warning to pickets to stop mass picketing. Since that time picket teams have been small in number and management personnel has been allowed to enter the plants without incident.