The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-01

changing picket shifts.
 Police Chief George J. Matowitz said officers would remain bivouack- cd inside the plant all day.
 Company spokesmen said the 458 non-strikers were at work and that 463 had been inside yesterday. They attributed the drop to lay-offs of office workers.
 Police detained two men this morning lettering on railroad tracks in the rear of the plant. They said the men were picking up stones. Both were held for questioning. Safety director Eliot Ness ordered policemen to keep an area 500 yards about the factory cleared of all demonstrators, and to limit pickets to five at each gate--each group to be accompanied by two policemen. Strikers and organizers, however, were permitted to gather at union headquarters, which is not within the restricted zone.
 The orders were effective at a. m. (EDT).
 At that time 8 single picket was on duty near the plant and the crowd of sympathizers and specta- tors had dwindled to few hundred. At times yesterday 1t had numbered more than 5000.
 A small force of workmen defying the strike called by the CIO United Automobile Workers Union was per- mitted to remain in the plant over- night so as not to be exposed to the picket line, but 8 company official said early today that 200 of the workers slipped out and went home after most of the pickets had left.
 At s a. nn., (EDT) 25 mounted and 40, foot policemen began patroling the factory grounds. No demonsta- tors were in sight. Ness was on the scene. He said strikers had agreed at midnight to abide by his proc- donation but that they had said they would be the judge of how many pickets to use. He demanded that he be supplied with the names of pickets assigned to the two gates.
 The night passed without a re- newal of the fighting that waged all day yesterday with clubs, stones and gas bombs.
 Policemen said they had fired only a few bullets, and those into the air, but Robert Travis, a strike leader, said that three strikers had been shot in the legs and that he would ask for an investigation by Attorney General Frank Murphy who had witnessed, while governor of Michigan, the first tumult in the automobile industry over the JAW organization drives.
 The Fisher plant here Is the only one of 12 in the automotive manu- featuring area that continued to op- crate in spite of the JAW strike called to force manufacturers to include tool, die, maintenance and engineering workers in the JAW contract. The strike was called here three weeks ago. The plant normally employs 5000 and is Cleveland's largest employer, but 1t was off, season and only few hundred had been at work.
 | Gs Os IASdoOAi, ACoAQSllt AllalldBCA said that more than 300 were still at work, but Travis, an international representative of the union sent here from Detroit to direct the strike, said only 25 men had ignored the strike call.
 Ness and Mayor Harold H. Bur. ton, who believed that policemen could control the situation and that national guardsmen were not need. ed, planned to be at the plant when the day shift reports at a. m (EDT).
 The entire police force was as- signed to 12 hour shifts and va- cations were cancelled. The de- partment had reported no serious casualties in yesterdays fighting which sent 43 persons. including two women, to hospitals. Others were treated at first aid stations near the plant.
 Union attorneys planend to seek Q court order nullifying Ness "fiot zone" restrictions. Fisher attorneys had tried to limit the number of pickets to two at each gate by court order, but Common Pleas Judge John P. Dempsey refused to hear evidence until defendants had been notified. A hearing was set for 7:so D. n'' today. ..-...--..--..---.--.