Evening star., 1938-07-20
BY tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
NEWTON, Iowa, July 20.-At least
| six persons suffered serious injuries
and between 20 and so others were
Knocked down or beaten, or both, in
street fights which broke out this
morning in the vicinity of the closed
Maytag washing machine factory. Par
Elephants were union strikers and SYM
pathizers and ck-to-work advocates.
The fighting broke out while $50
National Guardsmen, who were Or
dered to the scene early today to pre-
serve order, were eating breakfast.
Rushed into the strike zone, the
Guardsmen restored order in about
20 minutes.
Meantime, the Maytag factory, which
had been operating with a skeleton
crew of back-to-work advocates for two
days, was closed down. Maj. Gen
Matt A. Tinley, commanding officer of
the National Guard units on the scene.
said he could not say" whether the
plant would be kept closed, but added
that at present Guardsmen were ad-
mitting only officials and Office work.
ers to the plant.
Details of the injuries suffered by
victims of the street fighting were not
Immediately available.
Man Reported Stabbed.
One man was reported stabbed and
a special deputy sheriff was reported
badly beaten and his gun taken away.
The outbreak was the most serious
in the present controversy precipitated
after c. I. o. union employees walked
out in protest to a wage cut.
Women were among the crowd of
about $50 persons who shouted Get
that scab! Get that scab!" as the
fighting broke out.
One armored National Guard scout
car drove through the crowd and it
scattered, but reassembled quickly.
Several times men singled out for
attacks were grabbed and slugged and
then pushed into the arms Of police.
Newspaperman Threatened.
A group of strikers threatened to
get" a Newton newspaperman on
the roof of lumber company near
the plant, but police stopped the men
as they attempted to enter the build
ing.
AS officers halted them, one man at
whom shouts of "scab" were directed
was beaten and fell to the street.
When fight broke out about 300
feet south of one of the National
Guard scout cars, the Guardsmen
pulled up and cooked the guns mounted
on the armored vehicle.
Maj. Willard Gaines shouted We're
going to clear them out right now,"
as he ordered the street cleared.
The troopers formed a loose line
from sidewalk to sidewalk and drove
the crowd away from the plant.
Troopers Arrive Early.
Iowa National Guardsmen rolled into
Newton earlier in troop trucks and ar
mored cars to establish martial law.
Following proclamation issued last
night by Gov. Nelson G. Kraschel,
Adjt. Gen. Charles Grahl modified a
battalion of $50 guardsmen at Des
Moines, including medical detach-
ment, an armored car detachment and
a headquarters troop, for duty here.
The motor cavalcade arrived here
about 3:15 am. &C. S. T) and the
guardsmen set up a tent city at the
south edge of town. About 200 per-
sons greeted the troops.
The Al automobiles and trucks car
rying troops left Des Moines at 2 am.
P. c. To.
Judge Sits in on ParIey.
The guardsmen were dispatched at
the request of Mayor George Camp
bell and Sheriff Earl Shields, who con-
ferred with the Governor at Des
Moines together with Jasper County
District Judge Homer A. Fuller.
Hating of three trucks carrying
washing machine parts on the out
skirts of Newton yesterday precipitated
the request for troops.
Between 400 and 500 men returned
to work in the plant Monday, passing
through c. I. o. union picket lines, and
work had actually started in the plant
and completed washing machines were
rolling of the production lines for the
first time since May when the truck
hSjting incident occurred. J
The Governor announced that the