Evening star., 1955-10-05
Eight Wounded
In Battling at
Struck Plant
Sympathy March
Sets Off Violence
At New Castle, Ind.


(R.-A shouting. shooting mol
of 5000 sympathy demonstra-
tors marched on the struck Per.
feet Circle Corp. foundry today
and eight persons were shot In
q pitched battle.
Union leaders shouted they
were going into the little plant
to. bring out the non-strikers as
they swarmed onto the plant
parking lot in a steady rain. But
officials Of the striking CIC
United Auto Workers Union said
they knew nothing Of such q
plan.
The demonstration was blamed
on the firing yesterday Of IS
workers largely because of q
picket line disorder eight days
ago when SIS pickets were ar
rested.
State Police Assemble
A force of $50 State police was
assembled in Memorial Park,
four miles from the foundry,
after appeals from both union
and State police failed to dis
perse the mob.
1t. Gov. Harold w. Handley
left Indianapolis to look over the
situation, saying he would cell
out National Guard units only
as a last resort.
The wounded in the shooting
stoning attack on the plant in
cluded three non-strikers inside
the plant and five demonstra-
tors outside,
None of them was believed
seriously wounded. ~
Don Ballard. UAW regional
publicity director. said he saw
nonstrikers firing on the crowd
from an upstairs doorway. He
said he saw no shooting by the
city police, who were inside the
plant with their chief, Clarence
Justice.
Police Captain Hit
Police Capt. Robert Dillon,
who climbed onto a car top to
urge the demonstrators to dis
perse, was hit on the head with
q rock. He was not seriously
hurt.
Capt. Dillon warned the crowd
that State police would be called
in Immediately unless the DEM
onstration broke up.
At his side to plead for q dis
persal was E. j. Kucela Of
Indianapolis. assistant, regional
UAW director.
In spite Of their pleas. hum
dreds Of the demonstrators
milled around the foundry,
throwing bricks. stones and
bottles.
The order mastering the State
police force came from the a.
fice Of Gov. George N. Craig,
who is In Miami for the coming
national convention Of the Amer
ican Legion.
Hopes for Order
Gov. Craig's executive secre-
tary. Horace NJ. Goats, said,
Were hopeful and confident the
disturbance can be quelled, and
order restored without calling
out the National Guard"
1t. Gov. Handley added that
he wouldn't call out Guard units
without consulting Gov. Craig.
Lothair Teetor, an assistant
United States Secretary OF Com
merce, is q member Of the Board
Of Directors of Perfect Circle,
which makes piston rings. He
resigned as board chairman
when he took his job in Wash
ington. His cousin, Ralph Tee
tor, is president and acting board
chairman.
Three other Eastern Indiana
plants. at Hagerstown and Rich
mond, also involved In the yio-
lent two-month-old strike, were
quiet today. New Castle is SO
miles east of Indianapolis. .
Demonstrators Gather
Union officials said the demon
strators gathered from all over
Indiana, but they insisted NO
official call had gone out.
Mr.. Ballard said he under
stood" the CIO had called a
"one-day labor holiday in New
Castle"
Several other industries in this
city Of 1921 were virtually shut
down. The Chrysler Corp. forge
and machine plant, which en-
ploys 1000. said only 400 of the
1.500 day shift workers reported
this morning.
The marching demonstrators