**Date:** 3/20/67
**Source:** Unknown
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Calm returned today to Naugatuck’s Uniroyal plant after a Superior Court judge said yesterday he would not allow violence to continue.
Judge Leo V. Gaffney told leaders of the striking United Rubber Workers in Waterbury that he would issue an immediate order prohibiting mass picketing if rioting recurred.
In picket-line violence Thursday and Friday 64 strikers were arrested.
Judge Gaffney ordered union leaders to attend a show-cause hearing at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Waterbury. They were directed to show cause why an injunction prohibiting mass picketing should not be granted.
Such an injunction has been sought by the company.
The judge said he would not tolerate interference with office or management personnel reporting for work, or with members of the public entering or leaving the plant.
If there is “any interference” with the operating of the Uniroyal’s business or “any violence of any sort between now and Tuesday,” the judge ruled, he would issue a temporary restraining order at once.
That order, like the injunction sought Tuesday by Uniroyal, would prohibit mass picketing, “circular picketing and picketing shoulder-to-shoulder” or otherwise close formations.
In “action” on sidewalks and roadways near Uniroyal.
The officers of Local 45 who appeared before Judge Gaffney were Raymond Mengacci, vice president; Antoinette Zuccarelli, secretary, and Rita Ruggero, treasurer.
Picketing today was much reduced. Each gate at the Naugatuck plant was patrolled by two to six pickets — a great contrast with the mass picketing of yesterday and the day before.
After the picket-line violence of yesterday morning, when office and supervisory personnel entered the plant, there was relative quiet until afternoon.
Then there was a scuffle at the Elm Street gate when pickets tried to prevent five railroad cars from entering the plant.
Pickets and police officers suffered minor bruises, but there were no serious injuries.
It is believed that the company will load the cars with finished goods and attempt to move them out of the plant.
Union and town officials met last night at Naugatuck Town Hall in an attempt to forestall further strike violence.
They were Mengacci; Mayor Joseph C. Raytkwich, Jr., Henry W. Marlor, chairman of the Board of Police Commissioners;