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Continued from Page D though surrounded by nearly 70 police, failed to break the line.
 Hoyt and Roof had been repeat- edly thrown back into the street, along with police escorts, on previ- ous tries.
 Police said that some of those are rested were not Yale 6S Towne strikers, but sympathizers from other unions affiliated with the combined Stamford labor organiza- ton.
 Piekets booed the troopers and yelled "Gestapo" as they yanked some of the disturbers from the crowd.
 Meanwhile, they succeeded in getting Hoyt and Public Relations Director Dow Roof into the plant Tickets, however, blocked the en- trance of Weldon P. Monson, the company counsel.
 State Police Capt. William schatz- man said there were several squads" of troopers at the plant.
 All city police, armed with night sticks, were stationed at the two gates.
 A half dozen or more pickets, carrying a huge sign reading "DDT Delousing Squad" ranged through the crowds with empty spray guns, which they turned on persons srs- pected of being foremen or plant officials.
 During the disturbance, the union band which has played at the main gate every morning, rain or shine, since the strike started November ', blared away with request num- hers".
 The demonstration started as the factory whistle blew at 7:45 a. ln., and the north gate and the Henry Street gate were opened for the foremen, officials and others who wanted to go back to work.
 Picket lines, heavily reinforced since yesterday, made it virtually impossible to get within 30 feet of the gates.
 When Hoyt arrived with Chief Brennan, they showed through the crowd but before they reached the north gate, the pickets pushed them back. They tried again, with the same result.
 McSparren offered to help.
 Do you want to go through, MT. HoytP" he asked. Come with me-"
 They tried 1t again, and the plckets with a "heave-ho," tossed them for a ten yard loss.
 Most of the disturbance was at the north gate, the main entrance to the worlds largest lock plant. At the Henry Street game, there were about 100 pickets and only mild flurries.
 A former secretary of the union local, who was among those who had been going into the plant with foremen and officials, also was de- nied entrance this morning.
 The combined Stamford labor or- ganiZation, composed of both C1O and AFL announced last night that this group will exert pressure to settle the strike" and that i've are quite capable of creating opS position and are willing to con- iinue operations in many forms.
 The announcement was inter- preted to mean that mass picket ing would be resumed and that an- other general city-wide strike, such as was called in January. was a possibility.
 "Neither we nor the people of Stamford" said the organization announcement, "are gullible enough to believe that the Yale and Towne Company has been fair or sincere. In the opinion of this organi2a- ton, Yale and Towne has not even started to negotiate"
 A disturbance broke out at the main gate yesterday and nearly a dozen foremen claimed they were 'roughed up' and pushed around" i" They complained to Mayor Charles E. Moore.who said that the "situa- ton is Tn the hands of the po- lice."