The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-21
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Guardsmen Patrol Area
Near Plants at New Albany
and Jacksonville.
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der guard and there was peace on
both strike fronts with the guards
men keerMg picketers out of large
areas surrounding each plant.
Those arrested we're Harl Barth.
%; Carl Then, %; Everett White,
Is, and Lawrence Overton, 26, who
we're taken into custody when they
refused to leave the protected area
around the Jeffersonville plant.
The National Guard this morning
established an armed taxi service,
driving it's trucks under guard to
the homes of all workers who called
and said they would accept jobs
at the factory in New Albany but
were afraid to go to the plant un-
protected.
Workers Are Guarded
Upon receipt of such calls, trucks
driven by uniformed Guardsmen
and guarded by others armed, were
sent to the homes, the workers were
loaded in, and the trucks were
driven to the plant.
1t was estimated by Guard officers
that there will be As at work in the
New Albany plant by noon. At
the same time it was believed that
unless some effort is made at arbi-
tration, the Guard will be with
drawn within two days except for a
skeleton staff, although martial law
will be continued.
Ample lunches were carried by
the workers entering the Jefferson
vile plant today. The plant was
beleagured yesterday by union
strikers and 100 women and men
held captive until the troops sent
by Gov. McNutt escorted them
home. A few women workers de-
pended on their comrades to sup
ply their noon repast.
Orders Peaceful Picketing
Walsh, in overtures to Col. Fecht-
man, commander of the troops in
the martial area of Floyd and Clark
Counties, offered settlement on the
basis of:
]. A 40-hour week.
2. Wages by piece work on scale
to be determined by a board of
arbitration to be selected, one by
Fine company, one by the union,
and one by Col. Fechtman.
3. Closed shop, union recognition,
no strikes or lockouts
Col. Fechtman, in comforting with
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tional Guard had been called in to
prevent disorder and to give to any
one who desired it the right to
work.
Civil life in New Albany and JET
ferSonville resumed its even tenor to-
day. Strike conversations "shushed"
at the first questioning from news
paper men. Factions favoring the re-
turn of the workers to the plant
and others asserting allegiance to
unionism were ON every street cor
ner and in every tavern and lunch
room.
No Violence Reported
Declaration of martial law and the
disembarking from buses of 400 tin
hated youths resulted in evacuating
all picket lines near the two plants
in Jeffersonville and New Albany.
The guard took over policing the
plants without an alteration or an
arrest,
Maj. Ralf Paddock, commanding
Companies c and l., One Hundred
Fifty-firSt Infantry, Terre Haute,
early today ordered the unions COM
missary, near the New Albany plant,
to desist from feeding $50 workers on
strike. A tent, which served as a
dormitory for picketing workers,
was ordered dismantled.
Guardsmen commanded street in
tersections near both the New AL
bany and Jeffersonville plants.
Tourists were compelled to detour to
other routes to Louisville and points
in Indiana or to take circuitouS
routes in the cities of New Albany
and Jeffersonville to avoid the mar
tial law area around the plants.
Warned to Avoid Blockade
Filling station attendants warned
motorists to take other highways to
avoid the blockade.
One driver, travelling at high
speed, beat the guard barrier in
front of the Jeffersonville plant and
left before guardsmen could halt
him. A young guardsman, in at
tempting to duck the speeding car,
slipped on the ice. A report that he
had been knocked down by a hit
and-run driver turned a quiet en-
trenchment of the guards at their
strike posts into laughter as news
paper men rushed to the scene.
The guardsmen, fed and housed
in the New Albany armory, spent
their off-hours warming themselves
inside the two plants. Rowing pa
trolls cleared streets If loafers or
cruising cars of strikers
City police of both Jacksonville
and New Albany as we'll AS SO spe-
cial deputies, sworn in to cope with
yesterdays rioting which resulted
in injuries for three persons and the
failing of IL others on assault and
battery charges and rioting, re-
turned to their police departments
today as all companies of the guard
called out by Adjt. Gen. Elmer F..
Straub reported for guard duty and
martial law areas were set near the
two plants.
No Strike Breakers, Is Pledge
Early today as Col. Fechtman de-
tailed guards companies to strike
zones and as steel bayonets glinted
under the dull arcs of the two
towns he said that owners of the
shirt factories had assured him that
strike breakers would not be used.
w. j. Grsssert, Jacksonville plant
superintendent, declared that 500
former workers are willing to re-
turn to work provided they could be
promised protection from strikers,
Shirt company officials charge
many of those on the picket lines
were SVn1DathizerS and friends IF a