The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-11

of the United Textile Workers To- cal, who late in the afternoon nO- tified police a demonstration would be staged early in the evening and asked additional police be posted. Have the troops maintain or- der, protect public and private property and prevent injury to per- son., Lieut-Gov Wilcox ordered in sending troops into this area. Amy man has a right to work, and his work and coming to or from such, shall under no circumstances be molested as long as am respon- sible for the welfare of our state and of our citizens.'
 There was no further trouble af- ter the two companies swung into this normally peaceful mill town. Sentries paced the grounds and surrounding streets during the night and prepared to set up quar- ters should there be need for their further presence. Little Rhody Riotious l Sayiesville, R. l., Sept 11.-(UP) -NauonaI guardsmen were mob ilized in strike-torn Rhode Island to-day after a riotous night of sabotage during which three pick cts were shot and scores of other persons injured at the Sayles fin- ishing plant here.
 Saylesville, outstanding sore Rspot in the strike zone of the na- tion's smallest state, witnessed during the night unprecedented scenes of mob violence as hun | dreds of pickets, many of them from Massachusetts and ,Connec- ticut, attempted twice to fire mill building and finally wrecked it with rocks.
 Throughout the brazen attack on the filtration plant of the Sayles Finishing company, just over the Central Falls city line, 25 heavily armed state troopers looked on helplessly, unable to cross the line to halt the sabotage without spe- cific request from Central Falls police.
 Such request was not forth looming, nor did the half dozen Central Falls policemen assigned to the scene make any effort to discourage the destruction. Even when, at midnight, Police Chief George Collette of Central Falls made personal tour of the dan- ger zone, no order was given to intervene.
 So there swiftly followed an ap- peal by High Sheriff Jonathan An drews to Gov Theodore Francis Green for national guard protec- \ ton, Andrews explaining the help less plight of the 25 troopers, his 25 deputies, and the hands policy of the Central Falls officers.
 Governor Green directed Ad- jutant General Herbert R. Dean fo mobilize skeleton regiment of 1SO national guardsmen at the Cranston street armory and the armory of Mounted Commands in Providence.
 The guardsmen will be held at those points, ready to rush to the scene of any outbreak.
 The latest episode of violence here began late yesterday with a free-for-all fight between pickets and some of the HOO Finishing company employees who have stuck to their jobs. This occurred on the Saylesville side of the line and state troopers broke up the dis turbance and. aided by a cloud burst, dispersed the crowd. When the rain ceased the crowd reassembled, this time just over the | Central Falls line.
 T A barrage of rocks was directed at the filtration plant. Windows and sashes were shattered.
 One of 25 deputies, armed with I riot guns, warner the crowd:
 If you trespass on mill property we'll shoot"
 | The crowd, growing rapidly now, needed this warning, but continued 1 the rock bombardment | Early to-day, when deputies learned that pfckets were depIoy- ing around the rear of the mill. they sent ups flares and released two or three tear gas bombs. Part of the crowd, with eyes smarting, broke into disorganized retreat, but many other pickets lin gered.
 The filtration plant was fired. Authorities quickly extinguished the blaze. A new fire broke out. This also was quelled.
 While this was going on, half dozen Central Falls policemen stood close by. absently twirling their ngihtsticks.
 | Somebody picked up large rock and hurled it at a trolley wire. It landed with a crash on the roof of parked sedan.
 To protects themselves. the pie cts smashed all streets lights in the vicinity and the sabotage con tinued under the cloak of an eerie darkness broken only occasionally by police flares
 Meanwhile pickets made house. toulouse canvass of mill workers in the neighborhood and warned them not to go to work this morn ing.
 Finishing company officials be- lieved these warnings were respon- sible for the dwindled force-150 or less-that reported on the day shift. Those who went to work were unmolested.
 Three of those wounded during the night required hospital treat ment, Lewis Serecki, 37, of Paw tucket. who suffered a possible skull fracture, and Lionel Costa, 30, of Pawtucket, and Armand Gervais, 26, of Central Falls. who were wounded by sniping sheriffs guarding the mill property. Struck by gas bomb shell. Mat thew D'Ca, 21. of Pawtucket, was treated by a physician for sev- cred ear.
 Three men were arrested, charged with melting to riot and assault.
 First Time in Maine Lewiston, Me. Sept 1l.-(UP)- | National Guardsmen entered Maine's textile strike picture for the first time to-day.
 The guardsmen, called out at midnight by Gov Louis Jefferson Brann as he watched state election returns that assured him of sec- ond term, numbered 230. It was to protect Lewiston's nearly 5000 operatives, all of whom have remained at work, that the guardsmen were called. T As soon as they arrived they were stationed in a huge circle around the mill zone, which was transformed into a mo mans land" except for operatives enroute to