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...shooting intensified as the crowd around me heaved forward and tried to surmount a 10-ft. steel picket fence," reported TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who found himself caught in the melee. "A woman trying to get over was partially impaled on one of the sharp spikes of the fence. My hand was pierced on another. Babies were being thrown over the fence to the relative safety of the other side. At the narrow entrance to the cathedral about a dozen women, most of them elderly, were being trampled...
Three days later the Hoaglands fired all their employees but told them they could reapply for jobs through an interview with the management. Several employees then began an "informational picket" of the restaurant...
...some 400 of the city's 4,300 firemen walked off the job, the first such strike in the city's history. They set up picket lines in front of the 120 fire stations and closed down more than half. When the mayor fought back by asking for recruits, 677 signed up for duty, lured by a starting annual salary of $16,524. In addition, the city pressed into service scores of city sanitation workers to help in emergencies. The new people got only two days of instruction before taking their posts at the stations, amid the jeers...
...notices stated that the management would possibly rehire some of the employees, and several were interviewed and taken back. Employees who were not rehired, some of whom refused to be interviewed, formed the picket lines...
...Wednesday night, members of the group, which has set up a picket line in front of the restaurant, were involved in a fight with three present employees of Eugene's. Both sides filed charges of assault and battery in Middlesex County court this week...