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While Akron was giving the country an object lesson in Labor maturity, New Jersey last week displayed a rampant example of freshman unionism. On petition of some 500 non-union employes, its officials decided to reopen the Thermoid Rubber Co. plant near Trenton, closed since April 8 by a strike of United Rubber Workers. Returning workers were hooted and stoned by picketers, and when they sent out the first truckload of their products, the strikers tossed more rocks to stop it. Returning tear-gas bombs, police charged into battle. The scuffle stopped when the truck retreated into the plant...
...whipped the crowd into a fury, making good use of the C. I. O. banner which strikers had raised above the U. S. flag over the factory, somebody began to boom through a loudspeaker: "Let's go to the factory!" With a roar some 3,000 farmers and non-union workers seized clubs, whips knives, and banners labeled DOWN WITH THE C. I. O., swarmed down Chocolate Avenue past weeping Mr. Hershey, smashed in the factory doors, pounced on the Sit-Downers. Men pounded, pummeled, jabbed. Sit-Downers were soon trotting out with arms upraised, to run a walloping...
...assembled provincial police and "Mounties" to be sent to the scene, but Oshawa's police chief maintained order, even without calling on his 17 men, by taking 50 strikers as unofficial deputies to enforce observance of the laws for peaceful picketing. When some 77 office workers and other non-union employes including a dozen girls went into the plant and operated the parts & service department, shipping out truckloads of spare parts to dealers, the incensed strikers screamed "Bums!" "Scabs!" but did no violence...
...soon as the sit-down began the "improved sit-down technique" became evident. Strikers escorted non-union workers to the gates and firmly put them out. Company guards were ousted from the premises. At the end of the first day the greater part of the strikers were sent home so as to simplify the feeding problem. About 7,500 men remained in the shops, the greatest number, 2,400, in the big Dodge plant which ordinarily employs 25,000. Meantime negotiations had been going on in the executive offices at the Highland Park plant. Day after the sit-down began...
...Richard Roe and Mary Roe," with conspiracy to seize company property. Specifically, B. Edwin Hutchinson, chairman of Chrysler's Finance Committee, declared that the passes given to his office force to enter the offices were unsatisfactory, that automobiles of executives were searched by pickets, that company badges of non-union employes had been taken by strikers, that other non-union men had been edged out of line at the cashiers' windows so that they could not draw their pay, that the entire office force of Plymouth Motor Corp., including its President Daniel Stonewall Eddins, had been thrown...