50 Arrested In Uniroyal Strike
5-4-67 [handwritten]
By PATRICK KEATING
and
JAMES FLEMING
Register Staff Reporters
NAUGATUCK—Some 50 pickets were arrested this morning and charged with breach of peace following a near-riot with police at the Maple Street gate of the struck Footwear Division of Uniroyal.
The outbreak came after several hundred pickets barred the entrance to the plant to prevent management personnel from entering.
Several pickets required medical attention as a result of the scuffling and one, Nunzi Finatera, 45, was rushed to St. Mary’s Hospital, Waterbury, suffering from an apparent heart attack.
Capt. Joseph Summa, heading a detail of 25 patrolmen including regulars and supernumerary patrolmen — about half of the town’s entire department—issued a warning through a bullhorn to the pickets shortly before 8 a.m. telling them they were “guilty of unlawful assembly.”
Summa ordered them to remain silent and read the official riot act to the workers three times.
The policemen’s order was met with catcalls and as office employes attempted to cross the picket line, pushing and shoving broke out between police and pickets. Twenty arrests followed and when the fighting continued, wholesale arrests were made. It took police an hour to disperse the crowd.
All were brought to police headquarters across the street and released without posting cash bonds for appearance in circuit court in Waterbury June 8.
Among those booked was Raymond Mengacci, executive vice president of Local 45, of the United Rubber Workers which authorized the picketing. Mengacci charged, “Footwear management used poor judgment in the matter.”
He said an injunction should have been served on him to have the union desist from stopping office and supervisory personnel from entering the plant.
Mengacci indicated he would have obeyed an injunction and as a result the outbreak would not have occurred.
Later, at about 9:30 a.m., Mengacci returned to police headquarters with attorney Dan Baker, and they conferred with Chief Frank Mariano, Mayor Joseph Raytkwich and attorney Henry Marlor, chairman of the Town’s Police Commission.
Joseph Pincho, a member of the executive committee of Local 45 and a borough fire commissioner, was also arrested.
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[PHOTO CAPTION]: Arrested strikers are booked at Naugatuck Police Headquarters.
Register Photo by Photo by James Fleming
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