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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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In Willimantic, Conn., on May 15, twelve textile strike pickets were arrested as 2,200 strikers held firm for ten weeks against the American Thread Co. mill's reopening, despite imported police. No workers returned, no strikebreakers entered, and officials denied requesting state police aid.
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ARRESTED AT WILLIMANTIC; 2,200
STRIKERS STAND FIRM TEN WEEKS
(Special to The Daily Worker)
WILLIMANTIC, Conn., May 15. In spite of the importation of police to protect, the employers said, the reopening of the American Thread Co.'s Willimantic mill, none of the 2,200 strikers returned to work. Twelve of the strikers were arrested when they were picketing the mill.
The mill owners failed to win any strikers back into the mills although the strike is in its tenth week and no strikebreakers could be brought in.
Officials are denying to the United Textile Workers' Union that they asked for state police to assist the local force on duty at the mill.
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Willimantic, Conn.
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May 15
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Despite importation of police to protect the reopening of the American Thread Co.'s Willimantic mill, none of the 2,200 strikers returned to work after ten weeks on strike. Twelve pickets were arrested. Mill owners failed to attract workers or strikebreakers. Officials denied requesting state police to the United Textile Workers' Union.