Four Wounded By Shots In U.S. Strike
NEW YORK, June 22. Four workmen were wounded, one critically, in an outbreak of violence outside a strike-bound textile plant at Morristown, Tennessee, today. Several hundred shots were fired at non-strikers in a 25-minute barrage. All the victims were working for the American Enka Corporation in defiance of a threc-months-oict strike Dy United Textile Workers.
Company officials allege that the shots came from the picket lines. A call was sent out for police reinforcements from nearby towns to restore order but before they arrived a second outburst of firing shattered the plant windows. Officials said that 70 men were milling around the gates with rifles, shotguns and pistols. 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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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 5
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