OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE
. TEXTILE PLANT IN TENNESSEE
FOUR WORKERS WOUNDED (N .Z.P.A.—Copy right) (Rec. 11 a.m.), NEW YORK, June 22. t Four workers were wounded, one critically, in an outbreak of violence outside a strike-bound textile plant at Morristown, Tennessee, to-day. ■ Several hundred shots were fired at non-strikers in a 25-minute barrage. All the victims were working for the American Enka Corporation -in de fiance of the three-months-old strike by United Textile Workers. Company officials allege that the shots came from picket lines. A call was sent out for police re inforcements from nearby towns to restore order, but before they arrived a second outburst of firing shattered plant windows. An official said that 70 men were milling around the gates with rifles, shot-guns and pistols. The police, equipped with heavy arms and tear-gas bombs, prevented further violence by making wholesale arrests.
Sixty-five strikers were taken into custody.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 212, 23 June 1950, Page 3
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