The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-23

 blasting cavalcade of automobiles which wound through the town before dawn.
 Tenseness Growing
 Tenseness, already at high pitch, grew as then time for a hearing be- fore Dr. A. Howard Myers, regional director of the national labor rela- tions board, drew near. Dr. Myers will hear in town hall tomorrow AFI union charges that the com pany-dominated union which em- braces virtually all the non strikers.
 The squad of deputies, under Sheriff H. Oscar Rocheleau, was in- creased from 40 to 55 last night af- ter a pitched battle with fist-sized stones and baseball bats between a crowd of some 200 strikers and sym pathizers and a marching phalanx of 75 non-strikers.
 Ten Person Injured
 At least 10 persons, including three deputies, were treated for cuts and bruises after the melee which oc- cured an eighth of mile from the mill. Among the injured was To- year-old girl, Eileen Jacobs Of Barre Plains, who was struck on the leg by a rock as she watched the bat tie from atop hill with her mother.
 The non-strikers marched four abreast down High Plains Hill south of the plant which supports nearly ever family in this tiny hamlet as well as families for miles around. The company owns every home within a half-mile radius of its mill.
 The strikers, all of whom live in section on the north side of the mill, waited at the foot of the hill as the phalanx started down, cheer ed on by wives and children.
 Halfway down the hill they clash ed. Rocks flew and bats and clubs appeared. When deputies failed to appear immediately, on-lookers at the hilltop began hurling stones into the melee, striking members Of both factions.
 They Use Nightsticks
 Rushing in then from the mill site, deputies separated the parties with nightsticks.
 As the fight ended, three automo- piles loaded with would-be workers sped along a nearby road toward the mill.
 Stones flew again, but failed to break the shatter-proof glass of the car windows. When the machines arrived at the mill gates, however, deputies persuaded them not to en- ter lest further violence follow.
 Deputies then stacked riot guns in parking lot opposite the mill. Throughout the night a guard-de- tail sat with guns pointed toward the strikers section of town. Guards began working in three shifts on a 24-hour basis.
 President Fritz H. Johnson of the Independent South Barre Employes local union announced that he would swear out 39 warrants this morning charging strikers with assault.
 Troopers Not Back
 Before the latest contingent of 15 deputies arrived, Johnson had considered organizing a "vigilante" company unless Governor Saltonstall immediately fulfilled his "pledge" to return state troopers to the scene should strikers break their peace promise. A force of 40 state police had patrolled this tiny hamlet for 16 days but were withdrawn week ago when state-house picketing strikers personally promised the governor that they would refrain from vio- lence.
 Last nights outbreak occurred after day of new violence in which mill superintendent Levan M. Yacubian was mobbed, felled and his coat and shirt ripped of before he was rescued by deputies. During the day a non-strikers' committee had appeared at the state house to plead for the return of troopers. Execu- tive Secretary Carroll c. Meins, who met them in the absence of Sal- tonstall at Plattsburg, N. Y, said only a report from Rocheleau that the situation was completely out of hand" could bring further state ac- u.On,