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Then began the ugliest rioting of the strike. Down on the "Social" district, a mile from Woonsocket's business centre, bore a howling mob of hoodlums, some 1,000 strong. For three hours the town was theirs. Roaring up & down streets, they smashed, splintered, looted...
Five truckloads of fresh troops brought peace to Woonsocket at 3 a. m. Thoroughly alarmed, Governor Green sent a call for the State Assembly to meet in extraordinary session that afternoon. "This is not a textile strike," cried he. "It is a Communist insurrection...
...midweek the twister of trouble moved a few miles north to Woonsocket, R. I. (pop. 50,000). Behind a barrage of bricks which left the main street in darkness, some 500 picketers charged the Woonsocket Rayon Co.'s mill just before midnight. Militia advanced on the shadowy mob with fixed bayonets, fired two volleys. Four figures went down in the dark, one to rise no more...
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William Richardson, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Jullen Ripley, Jr., Oyster Bay, New York, C. R. Rubel, New York City, P. L. Rusden, Somerville, Bryan Rust, Purcellville Virginia, R. DeW. Scott, Montreal, Canada, Muzafer Sherif, Smyrna, Turkey, H. A. Smith, North Adams, Ellis Spear, 3rd, Newton Centre, H. C. Spencer, DeKalb, Illinois, S. R. Sternthal, New York City, D. F. Strong, Winsted, Connecticut, Chi-Tung Tseng, Washington, D. C., Yeh Chih Yang Washington...