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rate of speed, considering the situation.

It was believed the train was being operated by New Haven Railroad supervisory personnel. The train had been seen stopping earlier on the mail line next to the UniRoyal warehouse.

Some men got off the train and others got on it. When the train backed into the UniRoyal warehouse siding, the man hanging on the side was dressed in a business suit and not normal railroad trainmen garb.

It was said later that the regular trainmen on the switch engine and four or five boxcars refused to operate the train through the picket line.

Pickets were visibly disturbed by the actions of the switcher engine and its operators. They gathered around the trainmen as they left the warehouse property after leaving off the box-cars.

Although there wasn’t any violence, there were cries of “Hope you sleep well tonight” and “Hope you are proud of yourself.”

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court to issue an order restraining the pickets from engaging in mass picketing, from blocking entrances and exits to and from the plant and “from in any way injuring, damaging or destroying its plant, machines, equipment or stock of materials on hand.”