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Show per tent paiii up in mm hf'i - 1 .-'hip. Snr.c vr -fUi-rs v i :-i :i to he niut'h ;s ihivr miutih.- in ar-n-.ti.-. FLINT, Mich., Api il . 1ft tr.i:i More than 5.01HJ nii,i were "thrown out of work today when Fisher body plant No. 1 find Ruiok Motor Company's nsspmbly line closed in the face of a union dues drive barring bar-ring delinquent Fisher workers from their jobs. Union and non-union workers men and women battled with fists in the street. Police in squad t-;irs did not interfere. Approximately 400 workers were turned hack at the Fisher plant gates by an esticated 500 pickets of the United Automobile Automo-bile Workers union when they fail ed to produce paid-up membership cards. Both the iFsher and Buick plants opened at 7 a. m. One hour later George Patterson, Fisher manager, ordered switches pulled ' on the assembly line and produc-I produc-I lion ceased ror the second consecu- live day. A similar occu ranee I closed the Fisher plant and the 1 K'tiek line yesterday. "We can t operate with only a part of our force," Patterson s;ud. Henrv Wilson, president of the U. A. W. s Fisher local, said lie . would block the plant gates with j a picket line every morning' "as j long as necessary" to assure 100 |