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Mengacci, vice president of Local 59, United Rubber Workers called, said state troop help were not be called if the office workers had come to an agreement to meet office workers in, but 15 women office workers would have to go home. ‘So, no, we won’t let them in,’ was shouted by many of the strikers. Mengacci warned there might be ‘bloodshed’ if it became necessary for the State Police to restrain the workers. One angry worker warned: ‘we’ll make it here.’ Mengacci said any violence would be useless, since the company was trying to get an injunction to prevent the pickets from blocking employees the picket line. Cyrus Blanchard, vice president of Local 308 at the Union also pleaded with the striking workers to stop the filing into the plant. A little resistance at about 8 a.m., although some workers had passed pickets, they started home and did not try to come in with the men. The scene then quieted, although the pickets maintained their vigil until the gates. Seventeen of the 21 arrests today were charged with breach of the peace and were released on cash bonds of $150 each, said by union officials. On Thursday, the 23 people arrested were without posting bonds. In contrast to Thursday, when all of those arrested were walked away, today four had to be dragged, quieted. The four were charged with breach of the peace and their bonds were $200. Mengacci and William Ferandas, a union representative, will appear in Superior Court this afternoon, when the company seeks to obtain a restraining order. The strike is in now its 15th day. Negotiations are being conducted on a national level in Cincinnati, which seem to involve a guaranteed annual wage. To maintain added personnel on an overtime basis as well as supernumeraries, Many of the policemen involved in the fighting are related to the workers, and one patrolman said, ‘they have half my family working there,’ where a number of the policemen complained about being caught in the middle between the union and office personnel.

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